The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is a voluntary charitable organisation which cares for Lincolnshire's wildlife and countryside. The Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust is one of the oldest of these county trusts, having been founded in 1948. It has used Progress since 2002 and in summer 2004 they undertook a project to introduce a new way of capturing information on volunteers.

"We are delighted with the whole project and how smoothly it all went and are looking forward to using the database to the full."

The Evangelical Alliance is an excellent example of how a large implementation project can be well managed internally. Its database project began in 2001 when they decided to source a new database, initially to replace their membership and events databases and then eventually their 25 other smaller databases held in Access and Excel. They selected Progress.

Helen Calder, Associate Director Finance & Operations at Evangelical Alliance says "We were extremely pleased with the implementation as a whole. Fisk Brett understood our needs and what we needed to achieve.

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is an acute trust that manages three hospitals - Hertford County in Hertford, the Lister in Stevenage and the Queen Elizabeth II in Welwyn Garden City - and the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. The Trust serves some 500,000 people in the Hertfordshire and South Bedfordshire, has over 5,000 staff, and an annual budget of just over £200 million.

"With Progress supporting our fundraising we can answer those all-important fundraising questions - who are our supporters, why do they give, how do they give, what do they give, when, and will they give more?"

It is a national trading charity providing advice, information, and training to voluntary and community organisations in the UK. It runs many training events and conferences throughout the year as well as organising the annual charity fair.

Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. 

Robin Fisk askes "How many passwords do you have to remember? One for work, one for the home PC, another for your eBay account, another for Amazon or your Myspace account? 

Most websites depend upon user names and passwords for authentication (checking your credentials) but with more of our lives being conducted online it becomes harder to remember separate passwords..."

Run by and for the UK's 220 local hospices, Light Up a Life is a way of remembering loved ones at Christmas by dedicating a Christmas tree light to them. 

Many of those being remembered will have been cared for by local adult and children's hospices throughout the UK. Local Hospices invite people to dedicate a light in celebration of their friends or relatives, whilst making a donation that supports their vital work. 

Action for Blind People chose to use Progress back in 2003. As well as the functionality and reliability that Progress offered them they welcomed the commitment Fisk Brett had made to enhance Progress to be compatible with screen reading technology. 

When asked to assess the success of the project, Ian Hunt, Database Marketing Manager said "The project involved various stages - planning, development, and testing, all of which ran smoothly. "Fisk Brett took on board all the suggestions we made and were extremely helpful and willing to enhance Progress to be able to be used by visually impaired users."

Robin Fisk discusses charity performance management and the role of the database in performance measurement. "You are about to buy a car. You have narrowed the choice down to two models which are identical except for one or two important details. One - the cheaper one - has no dashboard or rear-view mirror. No speedometer, no fuel guage, no rev counter, nothing...."

With over 16 years in the not-for-profit sector supplying our popular ProgressCRM database Fisk Brett understands the pressures that you face and offers flexible outsourced solutions for the busy charity.

You can pick and mix from any of our outsourcing services so whether you want a total outsourced solution or just help during a busy period we have the answer.