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2 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Ioan Marc Jones |Kellie E. Smith |Laura Stanley
The Charity Digital Code of Practice has been revised and updated to meet the challenges of 2025, with extensive information on procurement, data, and artificial intelligence The Charity Digital Code of Practice (Code) addresses the digital skills gap in charities. The first iteration in 2018 proved immediately useful, as charity leaders navigated the challenges of the pandemic, such as the shifts to remote working and the move to digital service delivery.
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3 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Laura Stanley |Helen Olszowska |Kellie E. Smith
Launching your fundraising event is one thing – getting people to join it is another. Charities and fundraisers are always looking for creative ways to promote their events and reach as many people as possible, to inspire more donations and encourage participation. To that end, social media has become an increasingly valuable tool for fundraisers, helping them to grow entire communities around their events and sharing them widely with others, regardless of location or demographic.
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3 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Kellie E. Smith
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a buzzword. In 2025, it’s rapidly becoming understood as a practical tool that can help charities do more with less. For charity leaders, the challenge is understanding exactly how. In this insightful webinar, we’ll explore how AI is reshaping the charity sector and what it means for charity leaders looking to stay ahead.
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4 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Kellie E. Smith |Mary Wessel
Showing kindness in the workplace is important. And even more so when colleagues and peers are facing challenges. The charity sector is experiencing funding difficulties and there’s been an increase in organisational restructures, redundancies, and closures.
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4 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Kellie E. Smith |Mary Wessel
We explore the four key steps to volunteer recruitment and retention to help your impact go furtherVolunteers are indispensable to many charities, whether they are helping to deliver services, assisting with fundraising, or working behind the scenes to keep the charity’s wheels turning. Volunteers contribute their enthusiasm, care, and unique abilities, collectively contributing the equivalent of £18 billion per year to a wide range of charitable causes by donating their time.
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6 days ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Laura Stanley |Kellie E. Smith
Many charities offer a range of digital services to help meet a particular need or to plug a gap in existing services that aren’t fit for purpose. While many of these digital services can be delivered using out-of-the-box technology, many need something more bespoke to meet their unique needs. Here are five steps to developing your own technology for service delivery. Establish your user needsBefore developing your technology, it’s crucial that it actually meets a user need.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith
The communities that many charities serve are richly diverse, and their volunteers should be no different. That’s the approach of organisations like Bradford 2025 and London Youth Games, who have committed to volunteer diversity and inclusion in 2025 to enrich their cultural events, foster more engaged volunteer communities, and create meaningful opportunities for personal and professional growth among their diverse volunteers.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith
Download the Small and Large Charity versions of the Code of Practice 2025 Digital has accelerated faster than ever in the years since the pandemic. We’ve seen a shift towards the cloud, an embrace of blockchain and cryptocurrency, the rise and fall of NFTs, new challenges in cyber security, and much more. Social media platforms have grown hostile and misinformation runs wild. And the rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has changed just about everything.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Mary Wessel |Kellie E. Smith |Joe Lepper |Laura Stanley
Charities are keen to innovate, finding new ways to achieve their missions using the available resources. Introducing new methods, ideas, and technologies, it’s possible to deliver more effective services, to do more with less, and achieve so much more than was previously considered possible. Digital innovation can be important for charities to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today’s world. But it also has a downside: it can risk leaving people behind.
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1 week ago | 
charitydigital.org.uk | Kellie E. Smith
Charities face all sorts of challenges on a daily basis, such as communicative and collaboration issues, virtual storage problems, cyber security woes, and lack of resources or funding. Gaining additional resources can make a huge difference to an organisation, and that’s where we come in.
