Build my community website in 2 days
02/11/2023

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Time: 09:30 - 16:30

Location: Online

Description

Do you need a new website for your charity or community organisation?

Voice is a free website builder available to all community, not-for-profit, and voluntary groups in the UK. It is used by hundreds of organisations including charities, schools, town and parish councils, sports clubs, and special interest groups.

This two-day training course will equip you with the key skills you need to create and develop a new website for your community organisation.

It takes place on Thursday 2 November and Friday 3 November, 9.30am to 4.30pm. You will need to attend both days. There will be plenty of breaks and time to complete tasks during the training.

By the end of the training you will have a basic website structure. You can add your own information. However, there will be practice materials available so that you can gain confidence in adding pages and editing them.

Unless your website is very simple, you are unlikely to finish your website in two days. However, we offer one-to-one support to help you complete your website ready for launch.

Who funds Voice?

Voice Online Communities is part funded by National Lottery Community Fund to further develop the platform.

Additional running costs are covered by building more complex websites for those organisations with a budget. This means it is free of charge for small charities and community organisations.

Benefits of using Voice to build your website:

*There are no ongoing costs
*You do not have to pay for 'hosting'.
*You can upload as many photos as you like
*There are lots of useful functions that you can add yourself e.g. events calendar, noticeboard
*you do not have to worry about how many photos you upload, or whether you want to include a video on your webpages.

This forms part of our Digital Foundations programme https://superhighways.org.uk/training-advice-and-technical/digital-basics

This session will cover

In this training you will:
*create your Voice website
*add pages
*add and edit text, links, photos
*arrange the layout of your pages
*discover good practice in website design

Pre-course requirement

You do not need experience of creating or updating websites. You will need basic computer and internet skills. To take part in exercises you will need to join this session from a desktop device such as a laptop or computer.

Am I eligible for this course?

Priority is given to people working or volunteering for refugee community and equality organisations.

Is this course for me?

This course is for organisations that do not have a website or are struggling to update or manage their existing websites. You will need to build your website using Voice Online Communities CIC. It is not suitable for organisations that want to update their existing websites e.g. Wordpress.

Course format

Online technical group training

This is an online interactive live training session. You'll take part in interactive exercises such as breakout room discussions, polls or chat conversations.

You will be asked to complete individual technical tasks on your PC or laptop. You will not be able to join this training using a mobile device. It's likely that you will need to either create online accounts or download appropriate software, which we'll tell you about in advance.

Trainer/s

Sorrel Parsons is our Digital Programmes Lead at Superhighways and has 20 years' experience in supporting charities, community organisations and volunteers in the UK to communicate with the people that matter to them, demonstrate their impact and raise funds. Sorrel is a fan of making digital work on a shoestring.