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The Financial Services Group
of Livery Companies
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n October 12th, The Worshipful
Company of Information
Technologists welcomed its
eleven partner members of the Financial
Services Group of Livery Companies
(‘FSG’) to Information Technologists’ Hall,
hosted by WCIT Master Chris Histed.
The FSG works to support the Lord Mayor
in his overseas visits, his meetings in the
City with overseas delegations, and his
role of promoting "the City" brand of UK
financial and other business services.
to inform prospective Lord Mayors and
Sheriffs on matters relating to our
respective professional disciplines;
to represent the views of the Financial
Services sector to the Lord Mayor.
For 2016/17 Alderman Dr Andrew
Parmley Lord Mayor's theme is "Innovate
here, Succeed anywhere" to express the
focus that he wants to encourage
innovation in his year as well as
promoting the successes not only in the
City but in the regions of the UK. The
The Financial Services Group of Livery
WCIT looks forward with FSG to playing
Companies, formed in 2006, is comprised an important part in supporting him
of twelve modern Livery Companies. Its
across his year.
principal objectives are:
to be a network for access to
The Financial Services Group can act
expertise, experience and issues, and also as a gateway for those wishing to
to provide briefings for the Lord Mayor establish businesses in the City or who
and Sheriffs for overseas and inbound require professional and financial
visits;
services in their country of operation.
W
CIT, along with the City Bridge Trust and Esmée
Fairbairn are founding funders of the Charitable IT
Association (CITA), a new charity set up with support
from AbilityNet, LASA, Reach and the Technology Trust. CITA
provides a suite of services, delivered by highly experienced
volunteers, to enable charities to use technology to improve their
effectiveness. To get an idea of how CITA volunteers can help a
small charity please read ahead on how volunteer Ian Rogers
helped Twinkle House.
Twinkle House is a charity that provides a free sensory-based
personalised support service for children and young people with
Disabilities and A dditional Needs living in the North West of
England. The aim of the Charity is to improve the mental health
and well-being and quality of life of children and young people by
offering practical and emotional support to help increase their
resilience and ability to cope with minor difficulties before they
worsen. They also provide emotional support, information and
advice to their families/carers.
Twinkle House empower families to bring about positive change
in their own lives by becoming more able to self-support. The
skills they learn at Twinkle House will be for life and may also be
passed on to other family members, siblings and wider family and
friend network.
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Arbitrators; Information Technologists; World
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Twinkle House applied to CITA for a Tech Surgery in April 2016
looking for advice around developing compatibility across the
organisation, communicating with vulnerable clients and keeping
IT costs down, both with regard to licencing and hardware. CITA
volunteer Ian Rogers advised the charity to look into a free Office
365 licence which could reduce the need for onsite hardware and
allow staff to work from home if required. He also suggested
using Skype as a means of communicating with some of the
clients who had issues with face to face contact, and signposted
forums where the Charity could put call outs to schools and other
local organisations who may be clearing out their hardware – a
great way to get good spec machines for free!
J Boardman, CEO, Twinkle House said, “CITA IT Help for
Charities is an invaluable support service for small
organisations like ours who struggle with few resources and often
not having the expertise in-house to cope with the ever changing
world of IT.
Twinkle House received excellent, clear and useful information
regarding improving our IT that will aid our Charity in making
better decisions and getting help in the future. I wholeheartedly
recommend CITA IT Help for charities to other organisations.”
If you would like to
find out more about
volunteering with
CITA please see
charityithelp.org.uk/
for-volunteers
or get in touch with
Tracey Phillipson,
CITA Programme
Manager, on:
020 3871 0256
contact@charityit
help.org.uk