Mobiles & Connectivity for Charities
Let's start with a different question. What does your charity actually need?
Business mobiles aren’t simply about choosing a handset and a data allowance anymore.
We can look across business mobiles, eSIM-enabled devices, data, Microsoft 365, device management and connectivity to build the right combination around the way your charity works.
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What could your charity do with the money it saves?
Business mobiles built around the job.
An outreach worker may need substantial data and reliable connectivity throughout the day. A manager may need seamless access to Teams and Microsoft 365. Someone moving between sites may regularly connect a laptop through their mobile.
They don’t necessarily need the same handset, tariff or data allowance.
Right device. Right connection. Right package for the role.
Your business mobile can power more than your phone.
Reliable mobile data can keep a laptop connected through a mobile hotspot when Wi-Fi isn’t available.
For teams delivering services in community venues, attending events or visiting clients, that means less downtime finding somewhere to connect.
Microsoft 365 works across mobiles, tablets and laptops, giving appropriately configured devices access to Outlook, Teams, calendars and documents while people are on the move.
Your charity doesn’t stop working when somebody leaves the building. Neither should its technology.
Could one device do the job of two?
For some roles, an eSIM-enabled laptop or tablet could provide its own mobile data connection, Microsoft 365 and, with the appropriate communications software, organisational calling from the same device.
One connected device instead of two.
That could mean fewer devices to purchase, manage and support.
For other roles, a dedicated business mobile and laptop will remain the right answer. We’ll help you decide what works.
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What about volunteers?
Providing a business mobile to every volunteer may simply not be affordable.
Depending on the communications system, authorised volunteers can use an app or computer to make organisational calls that present the charity’s recognised number.
That provides another way of bringing volunteers into your communications system without necessarily purchasing another handset for every person.
Powerful technology. Managed properly.
Business mobiles can contain email, documents, Teams conversations, contacts and access to organisational systems.
Device management gives your charity greater control over those devices, including security settings, applications and organisational access when somebody joins, changes role or leaves.
Mobile doesn’t have to mean unmanaged.
Powering the hub of your organisation.
Your office, community hub, workshop or service centre needs connectivity it can rely on too.
From business broadband and full fibre to dedicated leased lines, we can look at the speed, resilience and capacity your organisation actually needs.
That connection may be powering Microsoft 365 and cloud systems, Teams meetings, staff Wi-Fi, cloud-based phones and the everyday systems your organisation depends on.
What if your hub isn't in the middle of a town?
Not every charity operates from a conventional office.
A Men in Sheds project might work from a workshop. A rural charity may operate from a community building. An outreach project might need connectivity somewhere conventional broadband isn’t practical.
Satellite connectivity can open up options in places traditional fixed connections struggle to reach.
And think about people working alone.
Community delivery can mean staff travelling between appointments or spending significant periods away from colleagues.
Where appropriate, business mobile and lone-worker technology can provide additional safety features, including location-sharing or location information that can help an organisation respond when somebody needs assistance.
What are you paying for now?
People leave. Projects finish. Funding changes. Technology moves on.
Contracts don’t always move with them.
We’ll review your existing mobiles and connectivity, what you’re paying for and how your people actually work, then identify opportunities to improve the setup, remove things you don’t need or reduce cost.
Send us your current bills. We’ll take a look.