A great many people and organisations have helped us develop the GuideStar UK
website. During two years of development and a lengthy series of meetings and
workshops we've obtained valuable advice and feedback from representatives of
charities, donors, funders, professional advisers, researchers and government.
They've helped us decide what information we should include and how we should
go about collecting it.
Early in the process, representatives from a random sample of charities
reviewed the site's content and gave us feedback on the quality of the
information we had obtained.
We developed an on-line questionnaire so that users could tell us how they
wanted to search the tens of thousands of entries on the site.
Finally, during September and October 2005, all 167,000 charities represented
on the site were given an opportunity to view their individual entries prior to
the public launch. Feedback from this preview helped us to improve the content
and format of individual entries and the design of the on-line tools that
enable charities to add to and edit their information.
Throughout the development of the site our User's Group met regularly to
comment on the development of the website from a user's point of view.
The members of the GuideStar UK Users' Group were:
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Karl Wilding, Head of Research, NCVO (Chair)
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Ken Ashford, Principal Accountant, The Charity Commission
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Jenny Field, Principal Grants Officer, Bridge House Trust
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Carol Monoyios, Marketing Director, Care International
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Claire Newton, Finance Director, Marie Curie (Charity Finance Directors' Group nominee)
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Cathy Pharoah, Director of Research, Charities Aid Foundation
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Roger Ward, Head of Personal Sector, Office of National Statistics
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Andrew Watt, Head of Policy & Deputy CEO, Institute of Fundraising
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Meta Zimmeck, Head of Voluntary & Community Research, Home Office
Help us to improve
We want to make www.guidestar.org.uk as
easy for you to use as possible - and we would welcome your suggestions both
for improvements to the site and for new services that we might offer.
Please send your comments and suggestions to
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