BeMoreDigital reverts to a physical conference

[THE ANNUAL #BeMoreDigital Conference will once again take place in June and for the first time since the March 2020 conference, it will be returning as a physical event. The 2022 conference takes place on 30 June at Novotel London West.

Tickets are now available to purchase for the conference. Prices vary depending on an organisation’s income and since the previous physical conference in 2020 there has been a price freeze on tickets to help ease everyone back into in-person events.

This year’s theme is What does #BeMoreDigital mean now?

Organisers Charity Digital explain: “Since our first conference in 2019, we’ve been encouraging charities to be more digital. But with everything that has happened since the pandemic began, and the great strides charities were making even before this, what does this actually mean now?

“All sessions throughout the day will focus on refining your digital skills and learning new ways of using technology to further your impact, to set you on the right path for the months and years to come!”

The conference takes as its start point four pillars of what it means to be more digital: • Building new skills and refining your existing ones • Opening up new digital opportunities and learning new ways of • using technology • Recognising the progress you’ve already made and how you can • build on it • Being more digital – but no pressure!

‘More’ digital is unique to every charity. The conference will show what other charities are doing and what each one can take away and apply to their own digital journey. For those who’ve never been to a #BeMoreDigital physical event, or who just want to get a feel for what the day will be like, Charity Digital has produced a video, which can be viewed at charitydigital.org.uk. Tickets can be purchased via the same site.

A number of COVID-19 safety measures have already been announced, with more due to be published nearer the time. They include pitching the venue and ticket capacity to allow for adequate social distancing, and offering different coloured lanyards so those attending can easily indicate how comfortable they are with social interactions. q

Giving horses and ponies the life they deserve

[FFOREST UCHAF HORSE & PONY CENTRE – aka The Pit Pony Sanctuary – are a small group of volunteers in Wales who help all the needy horses and ponies they can with meagre resources.

“We have been a charity since 1991, but our team has been doing this work since the 1960’s,” explained the charity’s founder Roy Peckham.

“We found pit ponies still at work in the small private mines in Wales and became their salvation by creating The Pit Pony Sanctuary.

“Over the years we have taken in numerous needy horses and ponies, including some old pit ponies. Our only surviving pit pony ‘Spike’ toiled in several small mines in the Swansea Valley. Although elderly, and needing tender loving care, he is in good health now and enjoying his life at the centre.

“Help us make success stories like Spike’s. Our donors change lives, and you can, too!” q • For further information visit www.pitponies.co.uk.