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This article will help you write a strong digital funding application. Its tips will help you apply both to digitally confident funders and those with less experience.  You should read this article after reading How to get ready to apply for digital grant funding. Implement its advice before you start your application. That way you […]

An inclusive learning experience considers your audience and the barriers or challenges they may face when engaging with learning.  Why inclusive learning experiences are important This is particularly important online, as you have less information and context about your learners and no longer have the immediate cues as to any barriers they may be experiencing.  […]

Here at Galloway’s, we’ve been working on a project to help visually impaired users who don’t normally use assistive technology. It’s taught us a lot about accessibility and support for individuals. Accessibility is particularly important for charities whose service users are likely to have a disability. But we feel it should be something that all […]

1. Housekeeping When creating a presentation, add an Accessibility placeholder slide within your deck that references the following: Facilitators should allow participants to contribute either verbally or through text Provide information on task expectations/Consider providing clarity on what is ‘enough’ Offer mixed methods of input Allow for at least a 5 min break for every […]

This guide provides an overview of the online working activities carried out by UK charitable organisations, and addresses a range of privacy and data protection issues they are likely to encounter. It includes checklists, practical advice and resources to help understand and manage online activity. This guide provides introductory level detail and links to other […]

You’re trying to choose a new digital tool. Perhaps an app for communicating with your users, a platform for a new website, or even a tool for organising tasks with your team.  Perhaps you think you need to build something new, but you haven’t stopped to consider what already exists. Something you could re-use, and […]

It is a truth widely acknowledged that the relationship between a charity and its agency is often pretty dysfunctional. We keep hearing that ‘in the charity sector, the agency model is broken’. At Catalyst, we launched a project called Dovetail to research what the problem is, and we’ve started to develop some solutions. Here’s what […]

Read Part 1. If charity digital services are to keep growing, then relationships between charities and digital agencies need to grow too.  Last year we spent a lot of time with charities and digital agencies learning more about what makes a great partnership. We also explored the barriers and how people were overcoming them. As […]

It’s been going on a while now. Ever since Tech for Good became a thing. Charities and digital agencies have been creating digital services for good. They’ve had some amazing successes. But just like it is for many new couples, relating to one another has, at times, been tricky. Despite best intentions there have been […]

It’s been going on a while now. Ever since Tech for Good became a thing. Charities and digital agencies have been getting into bed together and building products and services for good. They’ve had some amazing successes. Not every coupling ends happily… But just like it is for many new couples, relating to one another […]

The Catalyst Discovery programme: 103 charities, simultaneously guided by 11 agencies through the early stages of a digital project.  It sounds quite experimental. It was. We’ve never taken so many charities through such an intense process. Nor have we done it so quickly (four weeks). There were positives and negatives. Today we’re sharing the positives. […]

We’ve talked about how to keep your team working and connected. And we’re writing a guide to delivering services digitally. But, in this time of Covid, when you’ve less face-to-face time with your beneficiaries, how do you find out what they need from your organisation? It turns out there’s several ways of doing this by […]