Our Partners
The following firms have formed a philanthropic partnership with CTT, committing substantial technology, expertise and associated resources to various of CTT's charity products and services:
Service Delivery Partners
Ellipsis Media
Ellipsis Media have provided web design and development solutions to the corporate and non-profit sectors for over 7 years. They have had particular success working with charities to develop bespoke online fundraising projects. Their content management solution, dotEditor, has been instrumental in slashing the running costs for charities and freeing up valuable time for concentrating on essential fundraising initiatives. They also provide a highly cost-effective email marketing system, dotMailer, which allows the success of email campaigns to be tracked in real time.
Frontwire
Frontwire is one of the UK's leading providers of digital messaging solutions to sophisticated online retailers. Since 1999, Frontwire has developed one of the most functionally rich digital messaging platforms in the UK, which it extends to CTT's charity clients in the form of CTT Mail.
nfpSynergy
nfpSynergy is a non-profit sector think tank, created to deliver ideas, insights and information to help non-profit organisations thrive in a changing world.
Joe Saxton is driver of ideas and co-founder of nfpSynergy, as well as being Chair of Trustees for the Institute of Fundraising. In 2003 and 2004, he was voted one of the ten most influential people on UK fundraising by the readers of Professional Fundraising magazine. The Guardian also named him as one of the hundred most influential people on UK social policy. For the last four years nfpSynergy has carried out the Virtual Promise survey of how larger charities use the internet. Before nfpSynergy, Joe Saxton was Director of Communications at the RNID, Britain’s largest charity for deaf and hard of hearing people, responsible for PR, disability consultancy, lobbying, campaigning, policy, information and membership.
nfpSynergy and CTT are joint hosts of a regular seminar series at CTT's offices at 1 London Bridge.
The RSM Group
The RSM Group has pioneered electronic solutions for payments and billing for over 9 years. RSM has been aggregating payment services on behalf of major supermarkets, oil companies and convenience stores, processing in excess of £4 billion worth of transaction data annually. RSM has partnered with CTT and donated substantial resources and technology to power CTT Charity Payment Services.
Starvale
Starvale Management and Technologies Limited is one of the UK’s two leading certified external lottery managers working with 35 UK charities and responsible for processing over 350,000 weekly transactions raising over £20 million per annum.
TechSoup
TechSoup.org, part of Compumentor, one of the oldest technology non-profits in the USA, is CTT's partner and mentor for the developing CTX Programme. TechSoup offers non-profits a one-stop resource for their technology needs by providing free information, resources, and support. In addition to online information and resources, TechSoup offers a product philanthropy service called TechSoup Stock. Here, non-profits can access donated and discounted technology products, generously provided by corporate and non-profit technology partners.
Consulting Partners
Ivan Wainewright
Ivan has been working in information technology for over 15 years in consultancy, customer support, training and sales, and has been working specifically with the non-profit sector since 1994. Ivan set-up his business, IT For Charities, in 1998 to offer IT advice and consultancy to UK charities and non-profit organisations. He specialises in assisting organisations with their database requirements, helping them develop database strategies, identify needs, purchase and implement new systems as well as helping them get more from their databases.
Between 1994 and 1998 Ivan worked for Blackbaud Europe, suppliers of The Raisers Edge fundraising software, initially as a training analyst and then in sales. During this time he trained and worked with over 100 non-profit organisations, training users with a wide range of knowledge, from those with no PC skills through to IT managers & directors, as well as helping fundraisers, IT staff, accountants and charity directors.
Howard Lake
Howard Lake is a leading authority on charities' use of the internet as a fundraising tool, and wrote the first book on online fundraising in 1996. Since 1994 he has published UK Fundraising, which uses the web and email to help fundraisers share and learn about best practice. In 1996, after nine years as a professional fundraiser for Oxfam, Afghanaid, and Amnesty International, Howard set up Fundraising UK Ltd, the pioneering Internet fundraising consultancy and training organisation. Howard advises and trains charities on how to fundraise online.
Laurence Postgate
A project and test manager with strong development experience, Laurence operates through his own company, Laurence Postgate Limited, formed in 1999. He has several years of software analysis and development experience. Throughout this period he has gathered business requirements and transformed them into processes, procedures and software. He has managed and delivered a number of software development and testing projects in the areas of finance (commodities trading), energy (electricity trading / settlement), local government (careers guidance) and publishing (international political).
Susie Wright
Susie Wright was New Media Manager at Amnesty International UK until 2005. She helped establish the original AIUK website (one of the first sites in the UK charitable sector) and led its development from a brochure-ware site to the interactive site of today. She has a Masters degree in Electronic Communications & Publishing from University College London.
Susie runs a communications consultancy, s-t-m, specialising in web consultancy, training and personal coaching. As a freelance web consultant, she helps clients clarify their online business requirements, designs the information architecture of websites, manages web development projects, edits and writes web content, maintains websites, and advises about best practice, including accessibility and usability.
