Someone holding out a collecting jar with money in it

Is AI Why Funders are Overwhelmed? If so, what next?

Lots of charitable trusts have paused funding to charities because they have received “unprecedented” (or similar words) numbers of applications in recent months. Of course the needs of people don’t stop; and the expenditure of the charities that help them can’t be paused. Jo J maintains a Trust and Foundations List – just check out …

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Team Lamplight 20,000km Challenge

At the end of July 2024, Lamplight turned 20! To mark this occasion, Team Lamplight are doing a sponsored challenge to travel 20,000km over the next year. We can walk, run, cycle, row or hop – anything that doesn’t use an engine. 20,000km roughly marks the distance between the hundreds of amazing charities we support …

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Lamplight achieves ISO27001 certification

We are really pleased to announce a significant milestone: we have achieved ISO 27001 certification, underscoring our commitment to the highest standards of information security management.  We were audited by the BSI and you can access the certificate from their website here. Our Information Security systems and certification cover all our activities and staff, not …

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The News Is Moving

Yes that’s right. No more messages here. Inside your system we can only show you messages you need to see. We can translate them into your terminology. And hopefully a bit less easy to miss. Moving date: next week…

System update: address history, Retain Until

This will be one of the last messages we put here on the home page… As you may have seen from our latest newsletter, these messages will soon appear on your home page after you’ve logged in.

This week: Groups / lists and Data Views Level 2 Bitesize training

Want to take your knowledge of groups/lists and data views to the next level? You’ve got the basics but need more? This is for you. There’s still spaces on the bitesize training session next Thursday 29th from 10am – 12. You’ll go deep into some of the advanced topics, creating advanced queries based on activity …

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Lamplight updates 20th June

There have been some updates overnight on the 19th/20th June which have caused problems for some users. We’ve carried out further updates this morning and believe that these are now resolved. We’re sorry for the inconvenience caused. One of the issues was related to some over-zealous application of ‘my user’ restrictions, preventing admins from accessing …

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Small Charity Week – This week!

Small Charity Week is 19th – 23rd June , a week celebrating the massive impact small charities have in our communities, and providing a bunch of resources to support you and your work. There are a ton of free and cheap events through the week – it’s not too late to book on now.