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🚨 IMPORTANT NEWS 🚨

What are the biggest challenges you face with your CRM? This stat from the Charity Digital Skills Report highlights a key issue in the sector that needs to be addressed! We'd be curious to know your thoughts...

While it has fallen over the past year, one area that is the top of mind for charities is the fact they need to improve their brand and profile, according to the Charity Digital Skills Report 2023. Have you found this challenge in your own organisations? 🤔

The BRIX Referral scheme is now live 🚀 Could you help us continue to serve charities and social enterprises in the UK by introducing us to someone you know? If so, we'll make sure you benefit from it as well!

Where are the stages of uncertainty in your organisation? Could you address them using digital tools? 🤔

It's tough out there at the moment, and leading a Charity or Social Enterprise can often be a lonely place. This article from Pioneers Post about mentorship and leading when times feel very tough offers some great advice: buff.ly/45FV6xv

🚨 UPCOMING WEBINAR! 🚨 We're joining Simon from Dot to Dot to talk about how you can communicate your impact. It's just an hours session but should be packed with free and easy ways to start telling stories using your data. SIGN UP HERE: buff.ly/3KPGp2H

🚀 The BRIX Referral Scheme is now live! 🚀

Book Aid International wants to create a world where everyone has access to books that will enrich, improve and change their lives. We worked with Book Aid to improve the quality of their icons and illustrations, as well as look at how they could be developed in the future.

🚨 NEW WORK! 🚨 We were approached by the Restoration Trust to help them develop their brand identity and website in order to better represent their product offering and value that their organisation brings to heritage asset owners, and people with mental health challenges.

We've had the pleasure of working on a variety of digital projects over the past year. Many of them with our partners at @cloudartisans, who are based in Nottingham. Here's a very small selection of that work over the past few months... 👨‍💻

It's #SmallCharityWeek this week, so we're celebrating the fantastic work that smaller organisations do to uphold so many areas of society. Shoutout to all of you, we're so proud to play a small part in supporting you 🚀 You're all awesome!

Had a great time visiting our friends at Level Best this morning to have a tour round their new building and hear how they’re getting on. What an awesome space 😃 If you’re in Colchester then go and visit them at St Johns Street and grab a coffee while you’re there!

❌ Don't overvalue social media ❌ Instead, focus on directing people to communities on channels you own: your website, your email list etc We hope the 7% of our followers that this has reached enjoy it 😆

Lead generation strategies have a great role to play on your website. They don't have to be complex, but they can start to build conversations and networks which could help sustain you in the future 💷 Are you utilising this tactic on your site?

We respond to the needs of people when we understand how we can make a positive difference to them. Your marketing and communication should use this approach too 📢 Show people the journey they can take with your organisation!

🤔 We asked #ChatGPT four key questions facing #Charity leaders in 2023, here were the responses. Screenshots below! How do you think the AI did? In our eyes, there’s some good advice in there!