How Samaritans have responded to lockdown

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Hi, it's David and Sonya here from Catalyst. As usual, this bulletin brings you all the advice and help we've gathered this week to help charities build digital services.

This week, we've been thinking about two very different questions: how do we maintain human connections online? And why don't we know more about the impact of the lockdown on charities? We hope you find them interesting.

How Samaritans are using digital and mobile to respond to lockdown

Samaritans have faced a host of challenges as a result of lockdown. Find out how they're overcoming them.

What is lockdown really going to cost charities?

The original estimate was that lockdown would cost charities £3.7bn. But is this really right? We look at some lessons from the data.

Creating empathy in online services

Read part one of our series about maintaining the human connection as services move rapidly online.

How to plan your next steps during lockdown

Catalyst and Zoe Amar Digital are jointly offering two free ‘what next?' webinars, designed to help charities work out next digital steps during COVID-19.

Grant Advisor would love to hear your views

Grant Advisor is a platform to assess the effectiveness of charity funders. Please share your views on the Grant Advisor platform.

Learn more about cyber-security

Charity Digital are hosting a webinar this afternoon with the National Cyber Security Centre team. You can join here.

Take Five: the best content from around our network

Read some key learning and advice from our charity partners.

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