The Royal Horticultural Society claims it has made significant cost savings by using automated tiered storage technology as the platform for its 200,000-strong library of high-resolution images.

The Alzheimer’s Society has been publicly reprimanded after it admitted to three separate breaches of the Data Protection Act in 2009.

Several household-name charities are talking about sharing IT functions and even staff as part of a new membership benefit offered by the Charities Consortium IT Directors Group.

St Luke’s Hospice in Basildon has seen an 80 per cent saving in its phone bill by working with Support Telecom, a partner programme set up by a local entrepreneur to reduce charities’ phone bills.