Design Aid is a registered charity (reg charity No. 1077235) providing professional graphic design & related services to charitable organisations, here are some of our key services:
Design Aid takes the creation of community websites to the next level. Our powerful and versatile CMS and Web 2.0 functions are integrated with our custom modules and plug-ins to create a site that is content managed not only by administrators but at many different levels by your community, for your community! Sites like this one!
Written by Bruce Allinson - founder/creative director
Wednesday, 02 April 2008
Design Aid - the first and only UK Registered Charity... to provide professional creative services to the charitable community and good causes.
Design Aid - a unique charitable organisation... registered in 1999 to provide creative solutions that enhance any charities communications and marketing efforts through a professional image and brand identity that leave lasting impresions and provoke positive actions.
We hope you find the website informative and helpful... you will find information about Design Aid and what we do. We would very much like to support your charitable project, or organisation develop effective communications tools.
Be part of this web site... The Design Aid website is much more than a simple showcase for Design Aid. Far from being static you can join the site to network and promote your projects by adding your very one news, articles, features and advice to the website.
We also invite you... to join the website and support our members efforts to build a fantastic on-line community for the charity and third sectors - take a look around the site to see just how much you can be involved in this community and how you can promote your projects as a member of the Design Aid community.
Members can advertise events, promote their website, submit their news or profiles for publication on the site and in the e newsletter as well as give and take advice from the community members in the forum.
No matter where you are based in the UK Design Aid supports the charities in your area.
Here at Design Aid we would like to raise a call to arms for every Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) and support/network or umbrella group in the country. If you work for or run a CVS can you please help Design Aid reach our beneficiaries namely the charitable projects/organisations and Social Enterprises in your region.
Please feel free to copy any text and images about Design Aid from the website for publication in your newsletter and on your own website etc.
Design Aid will also be publishing on the website for download word docs, posters and flyers as PDF's etc. for publication or insertion on notice boards etc.
So, if your organization is a CVS... or you are a strong active networker please help us reach those who can take advantage of the Design Aid creative services and solutions help us to support our charitable community by answering this call to arms.
CAN YOU?...
Publish something about Design Aid in your newsletter or on your website
Download, print and post on a notice board a Design Aid flyer/postcard
Add a Design Aid link to your website (your welcome to add your link to our site)
Do anything to let the charities in your area know there is a professional creative charity here to help
Design Aid has added 41 news feeds to its website this week.
Another reason to make Design Aid's new Web 2.0 website the hub of your on-line Charity Sector community building and networking.
These news feeds will give you a single hub to find all the latest Third Sector and community news from professional news providers and community groups/projects alike in one website visit - a one stop for all your news.
RSS news feeds are a great resource and a fantastic way of bringing adding convenience to the Design Aid website, by bringing relevant good quality content from many different information providers into one place.
If you know of other feeds or subscribe to a good RSS feed that you think others would like, please let us know so we can add it to the list and let others benefit from it.
You will find our News Feeds under the "Design Aid Stuff" menu at www.designaid.org.uk
Design Aid - the Creative Charity, is building an online community for us all
The new Design Aid website is now open to all… it is very exciting and it is here to benefit all of us who work in our communities and the Charity Sector.
There is a fantastic range of features with this busy Web 2.0 website that will benefit all of us; from the largest of organisations, to the smallest of community groups.
As a members of the Design Aid site… you can login and use the site directly to publish your own news, links, stories, events, etc. and even have items included in our e newsletter.
This is better than posting in forums, or an obscure social network page, (though designaid.org.uk has a great forum). This is e-publishing that uses your important news story, or article as real content in a high ranked popular and busy charity website.
Getting your project noticed… by Design Aid members and visitors could not be easier, whether you are looking to drive more people to your own fantastic website with news items and links, or you have some great news, perhaps an appeal that you need to get out there, either way this website is a great marketing and publicity tool for your charitable organisation or community project.
Following a very quite time at Design Aid... with only a couple of publishing projects to our name in the last few of years, we hope that 2008 will see the organisation reaching new heights. Please join with us as Design Aid returns to heart of the charitable community doing what we do best, lending a creative helping hand.
Lets start right now with the brand new Design Aid Web 2.0 website As a member of the site you can access all the Web 2.0 features and join us in building a new and exciting online community that supports everyone in their charitable efforts and projects. Please use the "control panel" (at the head of every page on the website) to register and log in. You can be a member of this new online charity community Today!
You can donate... time, skills, money, or other resources. If you have somthing to offer the project and our beneficaries please get in touch, or register on the site - join up and join in Join Here...or open the "control panel" (top of page) to register.
Use the Donate button to make a welcome cash donation of any amount with your credit or debit card
Design Aid takes the creation of community websites to the next level. Our powerful and versatile CMS and Web 2.0 functions are integrated with our custom modules and plug-ins to create a site that is content managed not only by administrators but at many different levels by your community, for your community! Sites like this one!
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Following a very quite time at Design Aid...