How to cost and fund ICT
Effective use of ICT allows organisations to operate more efficiently and underpins their long term sustainability. ICT can allow organisations to provide new and innovative services and enable them to reach groups they have not served in the past.
For this to happen however voluntary and community organisations need to be able to understand how to cost and fund their ICT and be successful in securing funding.
This book aims to help voluntary and community organisations understand how to cost and fund ICT thus enabling them to explain these costs and benefits more successfully to funders. By finding out what an organisation needs to cost, in the first instance, they will find it easier to incorporate these costs into funding bids and thus be successful in securing funding.
The relationship between funders and voluntary and community organisations (VCOs) with regards to funding ICT, needs to be improved to ensure that the total costs of ownership of ICT are fully funded.This book will enable frontline groups to start this dialogue with confidence and to improve their skills in costing and funding ICT.
One of the ICT Hub’s aims is that frontline organisations and funders will share a common awareness of the costs and benefits of ICT enabling them to make informed choices when either sourcing funding or being funded.This guide will walk you through some straightforward steps to enable a small organisation like yourself to feel like you can make more informed decisions about your ICT.
This publication is one of the ICT Hub’s range of resources to help VCOs take advantage of ICT. The ICT Hub is a group of voluntary sector organisations that have come together to plan and deliver a co-ordinated framework of ICT guidance, good practice, advice and support for voluntary and community organisations that is accessible at a local level. The Hub is a partnership of 28 organisations, with a steering group that includes AbilityNet, IT 4 Communities, the London Advice Services Alliance (LASA), the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO).
