RT IT in Community

RT IT Consulting belives that working with the Not for Profit sector is good for staff development and a good way to help the community. Therefore, RT IT has dedicated some of its time and resources to help some non-profit making organisations. Here are some examples of the work we have done:

View our entry to The Good Entrepreneur competition

Click above to view our one minute video pitching an idea for a London-based carbon-exchange programme looking to encourage Londoners to use more environmentally friendly modes of transport.

With the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is a charity with a unique purpose: to do all in its power to ensure that charitable giving to all charities is as robust and effective as it can possibly be. They raise the profile of giving, lobby for tax breaks, and provide an increasingly broad suite of services to charities and their supporters.

• The CAF has an area called Fund Raising Support which provides a “back office” service for Charities to smooth fund raising. RT IT Consulting's role in this project was to provide six weeks of junior consultancy to help advise CAF on the best IT package to replace its IT platform and thus improve its IT support quality

• Subsequently, the IT package having been chosen by the CAF, RT IT Consulting was asked to assist the project team in the Implementation stage of the project. A junior consultant was assigned over two months to produce Implementation Documents and in particular an Implementation Plan. RT IT was also vital in manufacturing agreement among key stakeholders regarding the Implementation approach and building confidence in the Plan.

With Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership (THEBP)

THEBP's role is to encourage the private sector to work with schools in Tower Hamlets on a range of projects designed to raise achievement and provide pupils with opportunities to improve their work related skills.

• THEBP needed to provide the Tower Hamlets' schools with material to help tutor volunteers teach students the basics of MS applications. RT IT Consulting helped this charity by creating five workbooks introducing Word, PowerPoint, Paint, Excel and the Internet. A webpage was also created to allow easy access to the material. To find out more about this project and view the material that was created, click on the link below

  The Computer Partners Website (www.thebp.org/cp.htm)

• RT IT Consulting staff attended various two-day courses to help give teenagers advice for their future career. Click below to learn more about the "Getting Ahead" programme

  The Getting Ahead Programme(www.thebp.org/ga.htm)

"RT IT Consulting helped "in the delivery of a range of programmes to bring business volunteers into contact with young people." RT IT Consulting "adopt a professional approach to their assignments with us and their staff are committed, academically gifted, and determined to deliver client satisfaction at all stages of the assignment.". UK Charity

• Many of the THEBP programmes' success depends on professionals dedicating some of their time to the schools and children. THEBP is finding it increasingly difficult to persuade busy business staff to give up their time for a whole day or two. RT IT Consulting researched ways of recruiting new volunteers and produced a 'Toolkit' listing contact details and suggested promotional activities to guide THEBP members during their recruitment process.

 

• TH EBP identified an opportunity to use IT to enrich children’s experience of the various programmes and events offered through the charity, and to push them further. RT IT helped produce a simple resource for teachers, volunteers and pupils in the form of a practical template Business Plan to be used in class, at events or during activities, or which students may print for themselves, all in order to increase students’ awareness and understanding of business and “enterprise”.

With Inspire! The Education Business Partnership For Hackney

RT IT Consulting are continually working with the Hackney Education Business Partnership to encourage school children in under-privileged areas to raise their confidence and aspirations and push them to aim high and pursue their ambitions. This has included attending a Dragon’s Den activity, where teams of year 6 children showcased their innovations to a group of five dragons, which included RT IT staff members who evaluated their performance and helped choose a winning team.