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Comic Relief
Comic Relief supports its grant programmes and connects global teams with Huddle
Launched from a refugee camp in Sudan on Christmas Day in 1985, Comic Relief has been striving to create a just world free from poverty for more than 25 years. Through its two big fundraising campaigns – Red Nose Day and Sport Relief - millions of pounds are raised each year. Every penny supports people and communities in real need, both across the UK and in the world's poorest countries. Since the charity's launch, Comic Relief cash has been at work in more than 76 countries.
"We chose Huddle as it hit all of our requirements. It provided a space to review and provide feedback on work without all these comments being lost in reams of emails."
- Peter Macfadyen, Climate Change Manager
For both its UK and International Grant programmes, Comic Relief needs to work collaboratively with grantees. It required a secure space in the cloud that could be accessed from anywhere in the world and was intuitive to use. Due to its easy-to-use interface and the ability to work with people across the firewall securely, Comic Relief's grants department selected Huddle and rolled it out to more than 130 people. Huddle provided a secure central environment for teams to efficiently share strategy documents, case studies and budgets.
"As we work with different project partners all over the world, each project team needed a central space to bring together documents and ideas under one roof," said Sarah Gabriel, Technical Project Manager, Comic Relief. "Using the organisations' shared servers wasn't a suitable option so we looked to the cloud to provide us an effective solution. We chose Huddle as it hit all of our requirements. It provided a space to review and provide feedback on work without all these comments being lost in reams of emails. Versions of documents are now tracked so we have a clear history of how a paper was developed."
"Everyone is accustomed to using tools such as Facebook in their personal lives and, rather than being too daunting, Huddle's interface proved intuitive to use and very accessible. No hand-holding was required to get the team up and running," Sarah continues. "We love the traffic light system for document approval as it's now far easier to see who has signed off uploaded files. Huddle has made the whole process far more efficient."
Peter Macfadyen, Comic Relief's Climate Change Manager, added: "I found Huddle extremely versatile for our work in peer reviewing a number of applications for funding."
Following its successful deployment within the grants department, Comic Relief is now looking at rolling Huddle out more widely. With a number of staff working remotely and travelling to and from various locations, the organisation is also examining Huddle's iPad, iPhone and BlackBerry applications.
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