The Information Technologists' Company

Most of our charitable activities are carried out through ‘Panels’ - groups of our members who come together to deliver projects in areas of common interest. The current Panels in the company are:

Some of the current and recent projects delivered by our Panels include::

ITC’s Recreation and Leisure Panel has worked with the Royal Chelsea Children’s Hospital School (CCHS) over a ten year period. The school caters for children whose illnesses stop them from attending a traditional school and the Panel has worked with the staff at the school to provide the children with the latest technology to assist their learning.

Chelsea Children’s Hospital school’s (CCHS) roots began back in 1990 through the Westminster Children’s Hospital and shortly after taking over the reigns of the Collingham Gardens Psychiatric unit. In 1993 the Westminster Children’s Hospital was closed and the unit was moved to the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital at 369 Fulham road, where the then current CEO made a request to the school to take on the teaching unit based at the Royal Brompton Hospital. The Cheyne Day centre unit at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital was also absorbed into the organisation in 1996 and more recently (2005) CCHS have taken on the hospital school at St Mary’s Hospital.

Since 1997 Colin Knight and the Recreation and Leisure Panel (through ITC) has greatly assisted the school in ICT, initially purchasing a special needs PC then in 2000/1 providing a 3 year package consisting of Hardware, software, cabling and support from Alphameric PLC.

Advising this Cambridge-based charity, which provides an advocacy service for people with learning difficulties and advises organisations that serve this client group on IT strategy.

The Company’s Arts Panel has been helping arts organisations on a one-to-one basis for many years. In 2004, with support from the Baring Foundation, we created iT4Arts to deliver a programme on Best Practice in IT Management for Arts Organisations. The programme comprises four annual workshops on key IT topics. Output from the workshops is available online, and ITC members from the Arts Panel are available to help with specific issues. The programme also facilitates a peer support network where arts organisations can share their experience of dealing with common issues such as box office management and contact databases for performers. Organisations participating in the programme include the National Theatre, the Royal Opera House and the Hackney Empire. In 2009 iT4Arts was approached by Arts Council London to help run a programme of workshops and surgeries as part of its Amb.it.ion project to help funded organisations embrace the Digital Age.

Our members are currently working with a number of other charities. These include: