This page covers the range of digital skills, when they are useful, and how to check for basic and essential skills.
Use this page to understand which digital skills your organisation needs to work on first. And how to find out about digital skills among staff, volunteers and other colleagues.
There are plenty of resources out there to help grow digital skills, whatever your budget.
Use these 10 tips to make running a digital skills programme feel manageable. It will help you create a programme that’s engaging and inclusive.
Run a survey to measure your charity, organisation or community group's level of digital skill
Convince your charity, organisation or community group's leaders to support digital change
Help your organisation's staff and volunteers to engage with digital change
Find out about charity software discounts to help your organisation use technology
Find some comparisons of software and digital tools used by charities, organisations or community groups
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Step-by-step guidance to help voluntary organisations develop a consortium
Guidance on scoping and planning before you set up a voluntary-sector consortium
How to form the initial working group that will help partners set up a consortium
An outline of how much funding is required to establish a voluntary sector consortium, and some of the potential funding sources
Why you need to engage stakeholders such as commissioners and local organisations in your consortium development, and how to involve them
An overview of the key policies and procedures that will support the operational running of a consortium
A guide to becoming an incorporated company
How to formally launch your consortium and invite organisations to join
How to set up the central hub that will run the consortium business, scope for contracts, network with commissioners and bring in contracts
How consortium members can work together to bid for, and hopefully win, contracts