High Peak CVS offers a range of services to help voluntary and community organisations across the area make best use of ICT (Information & Communications Technology) in their work:

  Regional ICT Champion – based at High Peak CVS, Steve Webster is the Regional ICT Champion for the East Midlands.

 Regional ICT Project – this three year project will provide support and advice to third sector infrastructure organisations throughout the region, including ICT ‘health-checks’ and workshops for development workers. High Peak CVS has a lead role for the project in Derbyshire, and Digital Umbrella will be providing ICT health-checks to infrastructure organisations in the county.

  Technical Support – fixing and upgrading your computer equipment. A service provided by social enterprise Purplezebra across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales area.

  Website Design and maintenance.services for voluntary and community groups, run as a social enterprise.

High Peak CVS has developed this range of projects to help voluntary and community organisations across the area make best use of ICT in the delivery of their mission.
We are passionate about encouraging and developing the understanding and use of Information Technology by the voluntary and community sector so you can use it in the delivery of your mission - campaigning, collaborating, communicating, being more effective and efficient.

We believe that IT is not just a means to an end – it is a powerful tool that can have positive benefits.

Regional ICT Champions

Steve Webster is one of nine Regional ICT Champions, working across England, who help to ensure that ICT plays a positive role in sustaining a strong and effective third sector. The ICT Champions do not provide an ICT support service directly to individual charities, but work with established networks and support services at local regional and national levels. This includes ChangeUp consortia, CVS, volunteer centres and other specialist support agencies who work with third sector staff, volunteers and trustees in front line organisations. Contact Steve on 07595 119182.

Technical Support

This service is being provided by social enterprise Purplezebra across Derbyshire.

• Telephone and on-site technical support
• Data backup and restore
• General fault-finding and repair
• Hardware and software installation
• Optimising systems for better performance
• Protection against virus, spyware and hackers

This support service is co-ordinated by staff in a call-centre office based in Pleasley Mills near Mansfield. Call the centre direct on 0845 270 2085 for more information.

Website Design Service

Do you need a website or need to redesign your existing site? Some of you will already be aware that High Peak CVS run a website design service for voluntary and community groups, through Digital Umbrella. If you want a website designing, please call - 01663 735 350.

• We have close links, knowledge of and accountability to the local community and voluntary sector.
• We have a proven track record in the area of web design, with an experienced project team with considerable technical skills
• We have specialist knowledge and experience of the ICT needs of the sector
• We have a thorough understanding of how a website can be an invaluable tool in providing information and how it should be structured to present information in an approachable, coherent form
• High Peak CVS has a core commitment to valuing diversity, as expressed in its Equal Opportunities Policy. We are familiar with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and their approval ratings. We are very sensitive to the need to design websites so that their appearance, layout and structuring make them easy to use and maximally accessible, including linking to specialist functions such as page translation.
• As an emerging social enterprise arm, any surplus generated from our website design activity we will add to the sustainability of the organisation and the voluntary sector within the High Peak .

For more information about the High Peak CVS website design service, provided by Digital Umbrella and to view our current portfolio, visit the Digital Umbrella website.