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Civil Society has a longer list of funders, including these and other sources (added 27/03)

We’ve seen a few sources of funding for charities affected by Coronavirus and/or working with people directly affected (updated 23/3):

Martin Lewis / Money Saving Expert – £5k – £20k for poverty relief. Deadline 25th March, funding to be released quickly.

Watch the National Emergencies Trust – currently raising funds, to be distributed through Community Foundations.  Again this is to support work supporting people directly affected (guidelines on their site).

The Mayor of London and City Bridge Trust have launched an emergency fund to support charities directly affected – sign up on their site for updates next week.  The Steve Morgan Foundation is offering funding for charities in Liverpool, Cheshire and North Wales.  Local Waitrose stores have access to £1m emergency funding for local groups.  The Oxfordshire Community Foundation has some local funding available from the Indigo Trust.

NCVO are lobbying for additional support for the sector and they have also made their KnowledgeBase resources available for free. Also worth watching for volunteering support.

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On Wednesday 5th February our office will be closed for a team training day. This means that we won’t be available for routine queries. We will, however, be monitoring our system to ensure it’s running smoothly. We apologise for any inconvenience, and will be back to business as usual on 6th.

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Here are Lamplight we’re always keen to find ways to make your experience of our system better, and support easier.

We’re rolling out a new option for some support calls and other planned meetings which allows you to share your screen with us. We’ve wanted to do this for a while because it means that when you have a problem you can show us exactly what is happening, but we never want to ask you to download new software onto your system, or create an account with a third party service.

We’ve now found Amazon Chime. To use it, we can create a unique web link which you open in a new web browser tab. We can then share screens, either showing you what is on our screen, or asking to see yours. There are no downloads or extensions to add, you don’t have to login to anything (you just type in your name and click ‘next’), and we can only ever see what you show us. We can’t access your data independently, nothing is recorded or stored, and we cannot take control of your system. Once the session ends so does the screenshare.

We will only ask to do this when we think it would be useful in resolving your issue, or for showing you something in Lamplight. It will always be your choice whether we do this or not. If you do want to, we will email you with details of the web link. And we won’t contact you out of the blue and ask – this will always be in the context of a question you’ve asked us, or on-going implementation or training.

We have been trialling it over the last few weeks and it has worked well, helping us to resolve issues faster and make training sessions more interactive.