Pictured above: (l-r) Craig Tice, director of Silver Pride
Software and Bill Tomlinson, chairman of Derbyshire Children's
Holiday Centre
Pride Park-based Silver Pride Software has given Derbyshire
Children's Holiday Centre some fun and laughter this Summer holiday
after it stepped in to create an innovative new website and online
marketing tool for the charity.
The company, which is based on Stadium Business Court in Derby,
has developed the new website, installed its innovative Spark
Builder content management tool and supplied the website hosting,
which in all will enable the team at the children's charity to
update the site regularly.
James Fairclough, who has worked with the charity for a number
of years, has also stepped in to provide the design of the
website.
Derbyshire Children's Holiday Centre was established more than
100 years ago to provide disadvantaged Derbyshire children with
holidays in Skegness and today it provides holidays for more than
450 Derbyshire children every year.
The team from Silver Pride first visited the centre last year
with the then Mayor of Derby, Councillor Sean Marshall, and were
given a tour of the centre's facilities, which include a TV lounge,
arts and crafts and games room, along with a large sports hall,
theatre, and outdoor barbecue facility.
Since then the company has been looking for ways to help and has
now donated its services and installed its innovative Spark
Builder, which are valued in excess of £3,000.
Silver Pride's unique content management system will allow the
team to update the site regularly with news and events - as well as
enabling supporters to make donations via the website.
Commenting on the new website, chairman of the centre, Bill
Tomlinson said: "I would like to thank Silver Pride Software
and James for donating their time and their services to the centre.
They have been extremely helpful and professional throughout the
process of designing and building the website.
"We are absolutely thrilled with the finished website and having
the content management system will make it so much easier to look
after it ourselves. The Spark builder is extremely easy to use and
if you're able to use a word processor, you'll be more than capable
of using this software," added Bill.
Craig Tice, director of Silver Pride added: "When we
visited the Holiday Centre in Skegness last year, we were bowled
over by the work they do. Seeing how happy they made the children
made us want to help and we are really pleased to be able to
provide them with a tool to help raise awareness for the
charity.
"The Spark Builder software is ideal for an organisation such as
Derbyshire Children's Holiday Centre as it will allow them to take
control of their website and online marketing," added Craig.