Quarterly Charity Technology Roundtable – Getting IT Resourcing Right – 25 January 2024

Join us on Thursday 25 January 2024 for our next quarterly Charity Technology Roundtable, alongside Microsoft Tech for Social Impact. Our roundtables provide a relaxed, safe space to meet your peers working at other large charities, share best practice and learn from other organisations. Our fourth roundtable will focus on getting IT resourcing right – a…

Quarterly Charity Technology Roundtable – Achieving a Happy Hybrid Workforce – 6 July 2023

Our second quarterly roundtable took place on Thursday 6 July, in partnership with CFG and the Microsoft Tech for Social Impact team. Each quarter we explore a different topic relating to tech and IT at large charities, in a relaxed, jargon-free environment where open discussion is encouraged and confidentiality assured. At our July roundtable, we…

Charity Technology Leaders Report 2023 – key trends and insights

Earlier this year, Smartdesc conducted a survey of Charity Technology Leaders to ask what their strategic technology priorities are for the year ahead. We received responses from senior stakeholders from a range of large UK charities, with an average organisation income size of £30m.  We shared our findings in our Charity Technology Leaders Report 2023,…

Charity Technology Leaders Report 2023

We are delighted to publish the Charity Technology Leaders Report 2023. Earlier this year, Smartdesc engaged with senior leaders involved in technology across a wide range of charities in the UK, to find out their priorities for IT in 2023/24. The report shares these findings and what they mean for charity IT leaders across the…