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Bringing together IT professionals willing to volunteer their skills, with charities in need of IT help.

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Omega Alpha Limited - Because Only Dead Fish Go With The Flow

Tel: 07958 292990 or 020 8249 3106 - Email: services@omega-alpha.com

Omega Alpha: Community Impact and Activities

Omega Alpha Limited is an ICT and organisational development consultancy based in Greater London. It provides project and interim management, business analysis and planning, research, training and effective ICT solutions (including strategy, web design and databases) to not-for-profit organisations including charities and the public sector. It reinvests some of its profits into providing similar services, pro bono, to the wider community.

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Ghandi

Why do we work pro bono (without fee)?

Every individual within Omega Alpha and its associates is committed to social responsibility. Pro bono consultancy and support allows us to deliver personal and corporate objectives at the same time, and hopefully make a difference to real peoples' lives, not just the bottom line.

Read our case study on our involvement with ProHelp London and how our partnership delivers for both of us.

"Where your talents and the needs of the world meet,
there lies your vocation" - Aristotle

bullet point Notes for organisations seeking support from Omega Alpha
(please read prior to making any application for support)

Current and Recent Pro Bono Projects

button Support for Newcastle based charities, as representative of preponderate, at Community Meets Commerce (business community connections, June 2005) including strategic advice and support for Gateshead Law Centre and Age Concern Gateshead. Ongoing support for Stepney Bank Stables Inner City Community Horse Project and Gateshead Citizens Advice Bureau.

button Seminar/Workshop at NCVO Computer Support Workers Forum (Mar 2005): "Need IT? Want IT" (Putting technology needs in context through needs analysis).

button Support for Nottingham based charities, as representative of preponderate, at Community Meets Commerce (business community connections, March 2005)

button Preliminary advice on management information systems for outcomes working with London Housing Foundation and Cricklewood Housing Concern

button Support for Leeds based charities, as representative of preponderate, at Community Meets Commerce (business community connections, November 2004)

button Work with Clarendon School, Hampton, Surrey as business adviser to a Young Enterprise project.

button ICT audit and strategy for BME music education charity Tribal Tree (North London).

button Website strategy and development (trilingual site) for Latin American Women's Rights Service (London) - visit the site.

button Work with Do-It (the national volunteering database) advising on technology needs around redevelopment of volunteer/opportunity management software.

button Continuing work with the development of the Circuit Rider movement (as preponderate) as member of the UK Circuit Rider Steering Group.

button Mentoring (16-19 year olds) at Richmond upon Thames College.

button Seminar/Workshop at NCVO CWSF Forum (Mar 2004): "It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It!" (A Guide to Project Management).

button Communications advice and website development for Hammersmith Society.

button Presentation at NCVO ICT Conference (Feb 2004): Working with External Consultants.

button Business analysis, information management and advice re development of information portal for Greater London Domestic Violence Project

button Advice and website development for local community association, Pitshangar Community Association.

button Online communications advice and web development for Octopus Community Network

button Support for Manchester based BME groups, as representative of preponderate, at Community Meets Commerce (business community connections, February 2003)

button Work with Innovision Media and the Potter's Field Development Project around online communications and website development

button Advice for Home Start Manchester on online strategy

button Information management strategy and support for ProHelp London.

button ICT consultancy support (online strategies and general ICT advice) for Preston community groups at ProHelp Headstart event (February 2003).

button Website development for Womens Counselling group in West London.

button Presentation at the launch of IT4Communities, a new national initiative to increase the degree and effectiveness of IT volunteering for the community and voluntary sector.

button Can we build it? Yes we can! Community web project (www.webcamden.com) with a UK online centre to help build a community snapshot (of North London) on the web - part of MAD 4 I.T. 2002.

button Technology support and website development for ProHelp London - helping facilitate professional firms and community groups working together in Greater London. The new website was formally launched at Latham & Watkins, London, on 4th September 2002. Read case study or press release.

button Making a MESS in South West London - developing a web presence for Mortlake with East Sheen Society (MESS).

button Development, and interim management, of a West London wide community development organisation - Lets-Develop.community - in partnership with community partners and large corporates.

button ICT strategy projects with BME groups in Manchester and East Lancashire

button Developing a roadmap for the future of individual (and contractor) ICT volunteering in the UK

button ICT strategy support for a Stoke-on-Trent based charity

button Consulting with the voluntary sector in Manchester at business community connections 'Community Meets Commerce' event (June 2002) in partnership with fellow preponderate members Glenaron Limited, Cumbria Limited and Just Flash Data Limited.

button Developing a website for Richmond Environmental Information Centre.

button Working with community and voluntary groups in Richmond upon Thames (November/December 2001) through the Southern Cares project.

button Developing websites and providing IT consultancy for Pukar Disability Resource Centre (Preston), Working for Health (Manchester) and Preston Disability Information Services Centre.

button Managing the development and operation of the Southern-Impact project (formerly SouthernCares) in London.

button Developing a website and online directory of local community groups for Preston CVS (Council for Voluntary Services).

button Project Management of the Printworks stream of MAD 4 IT Day (Manchester, 6th October, 2001). Omega Alpha in conjunction with leading Manchester businesses ran MAD 4 IT works, a 'training and trying it' event, helping to bridge the digital divide. For more information, please visit www.bitc.org.uk/comm.unity/mad4it.htm.

button Development of a website for MegaBite, a project supporting the homeless, based in Manchester.

button Development of a website (plus ongoing support) for London based charity The Hornsey Trust which provides support for parents of children with cerebral palsy. Read the case study.

button Founding partner of the DOT [www.thedot.org.uk] (January 2001 to January 2003) and co-ordinator of its Technical Steering Group

Bridging the digital divide in Manchester. We are proactive on the steering group and in supporting North West based voluntary and community groups. For more information, download this document or visit the DOT website. We provide Project Management support for the DOT Technical Support Group.

button e:pv - Enabling Professional Support in the Voluntary Sector [www.epv.org.uk] (January 2001 to January 2004)

Development of best practice for professional support in the voluntary sector. e:pv is the pro bono practice division of Omega Alpha Limited. e:pv is allocated a monthly budget by the parent company and these resources are allocated entirely to pro bono support.

button Avenham Walks Website in conjunction with the Preston Business Support Group (June to September 2001)

Website development with a team of project volunteers from local big businesses in Preston. Omega Alpha projected managed the website development and provided training for volunteers. Visit the Avenham Walks website.

button Engaging Small Firms in Supporting the Voluntary Sector

In consultation with our alliance partners in both commerce and the voluntary and support sectors, we are trying to develop a strategy for engaging small businesses and their employees. If you have any views on this please email them to us at epv@omega-alpha.com.

button Promoting IT volunteering in NorthWest England (in conjunction with ProHelp, theDOT and Business in the Community)

For more information, please download this document. Organisations supported through this volunteer engagement process include Victim Support and Merseyside Social Programmes Unit.

button Founding Partner of Southern Cares (now rebranded Southern-Impact) in partnership with West London Leadership.

Southern-Impact aims to engage Australian, New Zealand and South African IT and marketing professionals to support, free of charge, the voluntary and community groups of West London. For more information, please visit the Southern-Impact website.

button Educating Grandma (October 1999 to September 2000)

Training and support in email, internet use and IT for residents of an Accrington nursing home. Residents used these sessions to explore the internet and send email to grandchildren all over the world. Download the Case Study.

button Redevelopment, content management and support for ProHelp
website (October 2000 to February 2003)

Support and redesign of ProHelp website to improve facilitation and communication between professional firms and the voluntary sector.

The Mission

Omega Alpha Limited has a mission to impact and improve our clients businesses through effective use of e-business and internet solutions and training. We are committed to reinvesting some of the profits derived from this activity to impact and improve, pro bono, voluntary and community organisations through effective internet and IT solutions. We do this on the grounds that improving support for these organisations will, albeit in a minor way, improve the social environment in which we all live. We are committed to 'marketing' corporate social responsibility to all businesses but particularly SMEs and those companies with 20 employees or less. Small businesses often find volunteering resources hard to find and we are committed to providing best practice to help facilitate these firms in providing pro bono services to the wider community.

Our work on the ProHelp website: Why we provided our support

Our pro bono work in redeveloping the ProHelp website has provided us with valuable insights into how professional firms support a wide variety of projects. We are delighted to be involved in a project facilitating the support and marketing effort of professional firms in delivering pro bono support to the voluntary sector. We hope and believe that the site will make a positive contribution to encourage both professional firms to come onboard and the voluntary sector to apply for that support. ProHelp really does make a difference.

Omega Alpha is an active member of ProHelp (London group), a network of professional firms committed to providing free professional advice and strategic support to voluntary and community organisations in the local area. We strongly believe that every business should make a contribution to their local community as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility.

Strategic Partnerships

Omega Alpha are looking for strategic partners with a view to developing business opportunities for mutual benefit. If you are interested in working with us, please call Dr Simon N Davey on 0705 018 8707 or email si@omega-alpha.com.

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." - Ghandi

Acknowledgements

The Managing Director would like to express his personal thanks to Norman Harris, Louise Marix Evans and Stephen Farrell, without whose support and enthusiasm the e:pv project would not exist.

Thank you for taking the time to consider Omega Alpha. We appreciate your interest and we'd like to help you. Remember, we're only an email away!


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