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Welcome to Charity Technology Trust’s first E-News. Many of you have asked for more information about CTT, and so I'm pleased to introduce this quarterly newsletter dedicated to updating you on our work. As this is our first edition, we’d love to receive your feedback, comments and suggestions for future newsletters.
Best wishes
William Hoyle
Chief Executive

Email broadcasting services for charities
CTT Mail provides charities interested in using email for broadcasting, marketing and communications a range of email services suitable for all levels of activity and content. Over 40 charities are already enjoying the benefits of this great service. Click here to read more.

Case study - CHARITIES BUYING GROUP – MEMBER RECRUITMENT PROGRAMME
In Autumn 2004, Charities Buying Group, which exists to help charities of all sizes improve their purchasing decisions and reduce expenditure, approached Charity Technology Trust about helping them develop an internet marketing plan to recruit new members. In six months, Charities Buying Group has attracted an additional 300 charity members. A second phase of activity has now been agreed to build the membership to over 1,000. Click through to read more.

Announcing the CISCO UK Product Donation Pilot
We are delighted to be offering donated Cisco Networking Products to qualifying UK Charities through a pilot programme designed jointly by Tech Soup Stock, a US Not for Profit Organisation, and Cisco Systems. Qualifying participants are able to select from a range of ten powerful router and wireless networking products made available by Cisco. For more information about the programme click here

Charity Fair
CTT will be exhibiting at this year’s Charity Fair where we’ll be launching our Charity Direct Debit Service in partnership with NatWest Bank. Charity Direct Debits is the latest addition to CTT’s suite of on-line and back office payment processing services, specifically designed for charities. Charity Fair runs from Tuesday 12th April until Thursday 14th April at the ExCel centre in London Docklands. Come along and visit us on Stand 24.

Cisco and CTT ICT web seminars
Cisco and CTT have joined together to launch a series of ICT web seminars aimed at helping the charity sector make better use of technology. The first series will comprise three web based seminars on the following topics: VPN, Collaboration - e-learning and Extranet Resources. To find out more or if you are interested in attending please visit www.ctt.org/CISCO.

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