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Agencies providing specialist public liability and indemnity insurance for charitable organisations.

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AbilityNet
www.abilitynet.org.uk
AbilityNet is a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology. Our special expertise is ensuring that whatever your age, health condition, disability or situation you find exactly the right way to adapt or adjust your ICT to make it easier to use.

BlueDot (where the good things you do add up)
www.bluedotworld.com
A website that rewards users with a ‘social currency’ for sharing, volunteering or donating to charity. People can sign into the Blue Dot website using their Facebook account and then earn dots through activity on social networks such as ‘liking’ a charity and sharing on Twitter. The dots can then be used to gain access to exclusive offerings from celebrities and online content.

Charity Technology Exchange [CTX]
www.ctxchange.org
Through this programme, eligible UK-based charities are able to choose from over 170 donated or discounted technology products from Partners such as Microsoft, Symantec and Cisco. The products include operating system software and server software, security software and hardware products such as switches, routers, wireless equipment and firewalls.

Digital Brum
www.digitalbrum.co.uk
Digital Brum provide listings for social/web/digital type events happening throughout Birmingham UK. More than just a website, we accept data in any format (web, email, flyers, word of mouth, etc) and then publish it in a range of standard formats that others can do new exciting things with.

Open Advantage
www.openadvantage.org
Open Advantage is a Centre for Excellence in Open Source software in the West Midlands. It is the first independently funded vendor neutral Open Source centre in the UK: A regional and national focal point for Open Source developers and users; Promoting and encouraging the take up of Open Source software within the West Midlands.

ReCom (bridging the IT gap in the community)
www.recom.org.uk
ReCOM is a forward thinking charity which is helping people get on-line in the UK. They help the disabled and disadvantaged enhance their lives by providing access to information technology through affordable refurbished computers available to charities, community groups and individuals across the country; and training programmes in the Solihull and Birmingham area

Social Media Surgery
www.socialmediasurgery.com
This website is here to help people find and run social media surgeries to support their local community and voluntary organisations. If you just want to run one on a voluntary basis get cracking – if you want to run several and find out just how well you’re doing then please contact them.