Girl Guides - Case Study

The Client

Girl Guiding Anglia is part of Girlguiding, the UK’s leading charity for girls and young women in the UK. Girlguiding is ‘empowering almost half a million girls to be their best and face the challenges of growing up today and have been doing that through adventure, friendship and fun for over 100 years’.

Girlguiding Anglia has over 13,000 dedicated volunteers, delivering amazing opportunities for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers across 12 counties within our region. They are dedicated to enabling girls and young women to develop their potential and make a difference in the world. They offer girls and young women a space where they can be themselves, have fun, build friendships, gain valuable life skills and make a positive difference in their communities.

The Goal

When the opportunity arose for us to work with Girlguiding Anglia, we jumped at the chance.

They were on the journey to finding a better IT system. With locations all over the country and the charity growing so rapidly, they required a system that worked with them to handle their day-to-day operations effectively. They were looking for a complete picture on how they could align their IT that incorporated robust data security, flexible working and improved connectivity.

To find the best solution for their business, Girlguiding Anglia put out their requirements to tender. We were ready to showcase what we could do to support them and we began putting a plan in place. It was important to us to come up with a solution to future-proof their IT, ensuring it continues to support them as they grow and provide on-going support throughout our working relationship.

Our Solution

Our first port of call was to conduct a full site audit on their existing set-up and provide technical recommendations on where things could be improved. These were the solutions we would provide the organisation to create a streamlined system that worked in sync with each other on a day-to-day basis.

Following the audit, we then created a roadmap plan for how we would implement the changes should our tender be successful. Our proposed solutions included transitioning their system to the cloud to create an all-round joined-up approach to operations, allowing them to store all of their information in one place, securely and easily. This meant that there would be more opportunity for remote and flexible working with the addition of hot desks for staff to use when required. To be able to access the cloud at all times, we proposed enhanced connectivity with a secure, quick and effective leased line. This would also lay the foundation for a VoIP system allowing calls to be made through the internet, no matter the location of the staff.