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IlluminateICT was established as a ChangeUp project managed by the Coventry and Warwickshire Infrastructure Consortium CWIC. The aim is to deliver a sustainable ICT service for the Voluntary and Community sector.
Four organisations led the project for CWIC, these are

• Coventry Voluntary Service Council – hosted one worker
• North Warwickshire Council for Voluntary Service – hosted one worker
• Warwickshire Association of Youth Clubs – hosted Manager and one worker
• Warwickshire Rural Communities Council – accountable body

Throughout the project a number of key areas were identified as being required by the sector. These were

• Web sites and associated support
• ICT Training
• Graphic design skills
• ICT Support
• Trusted Advisors

IlluminateICT used this information to develop a range of services to become a sustainable organisation with a view to becoming a not for profit enterprise in this financial year.

We now operate a number of different services:

WEB Development

Fully functional Drupal websites for Voluntary organisations, Charities and small businesses.

Support

We deliver cost effective ICT support to voluntary and community organisations using both Microsoft and Linux solutions. This includes a free on-line support forum and consultancy services

Training

Our philosophy is to build skills and avoid dependency in the use of technology and so we offer a range of training solutions including bespoke training solutions around the projects we deliver.

Labs

This is the open source development area of our business and we have recently launched SmartBox, a low cost, robust, and user friendly network server. We also presented at last year's Drupal Conference in Barcelona on the new Drupal utility Drool, developed by Dr Nick Blundell.