Services

Change Works' most popular service is a website start-up package for organisations that have secured one-off funding for a site but cannot pay ongoing fees for site updating and maintenance. I meet with them to clarify what they need from a site, design it with the current content in an attractive and user-friendly format, and give the client the basic training they need to make updates and additions themselves. This includes advice on domain names, hosting and software, with an emphasis on low cost and ease of use. The aim is to give non-techies a communications tool they can really use. Clients have been pleased by the availability of after-project support.

Of course I can also help with updating of existing sites (as I do for Stamford Harp Festival) and other web-related projects. I work in basic HTML and CSS, and have done a little bit of PHP and MySQL (like the online catalogue for the Religious Studies Resource Centre).

Non-web work has included writing and editing publications, conference reporting, project administration and strategic input, stretching back to Nottingham's Earth Summit Conference in 1992.

Manager Tim Gray first became actively involved in local work on environment, sustainable development and social change through Friends of the Earth in 1988 - getting a grounding in tasks from campaign planning to constitution writing, from newsletter production to schools talks.

Since then he has specialised in information and networking activities, including time working for Nottinghamshire Green Network and Nottingham Inter Faith Council.

He has also been an active participant in many local partnerships - including multi-sector environmental forums, Local Agenda 21 processes and Nottingham's community empowerment network - helping to form strategy and allocate budgets.

Tim has considerable experience in the production and editing of written material, with work attracting praise for its clarity and conciseness. In one of his other lives he writes and publishes e-books.

He has been working in website design since 1997.