Online Workshops and Events
Check out our community events. Learn how to: add a profile, make the most of your profile, brand your profile, or how aDoddle mapping can support communities and more.
We want to support you, your organisation, your community – so if there is a training that you would like us to consider putting on – please just ask through our contact form.
August 2024 - Workshop Dates
Summer Holiday - Break
Everyone deserves a bit of a break – so for the month of August we are not running any live workshops. Please do let us know if you need any help by contacting us through the contact form.
You can watch replays of previous workshops and also check out the Guides Hub
September 2024 - Workshop Dates
Tuesday 10th Sept 1pm - aDoddle Workshop
An Introduction to Adding Your Organisation's Profile to the Map
An Introduction: Adding Your Organisation to aDoddle
- Quick guide to creating your profile
- Why Telling the ‘Story’ of your organisation is is important
- The 5 Key things people want to know about your organisation
- Q&A
Workshop was interactive & lasted approx 45 mins
You are welcome to join us 15 minutes before the start time in our virtual lounge.
Tuesday 24th September - 1pm - aDoddle Workshop
Creating Your Profile Header in Canva & Adding it to Your Profile
- Why having a header image is important
- How to create one using Canva
- How to upload it to your profile
- Q&A
Workshop is interactive & will last for approx 45 mins
You are welcome to join us 15 minutes before the start time in our virtual lounge.
October- Workshop Dates
Tuesday 8th October - 1pm - aDoddle Workshop
An Introduction to Adding Your Organisation's Profile to the Map
An Introduction: Adding Your Organisation to aDoddle
- Quick guide to creating your profile
- Why Telling the ‘Story’ of your organisation is is important
- The 5 Key things people want to know about your organisation
- Q&A
Workshop was interactive & lasted approx 45 mins
You are welcome to join us 15 minutes before the start time in our virtual lounge.
Tuesday 22nd October - 1pm - aDoddle Workshop
The 4.5 Whys of aDoddle
Let’s Talk about Why:
- Why was aDoddle founded?
- Why add your organisations profile?
Benefits for your organisation
Helping you to be found by those who need your help or want to help you - Why search your local community map?
- How aDoddle is helping to bridge the digital divide
Workshop is interactive & will last for approx 45 mins
You are welcome to join us 15 minutes before the start time in our virtual lounge.
Replays: aDoddle Guides
Recent Updates & Features You May Not Have Discovered Yet
An interactive workshop repaly sharing aDoddle’s latest updates, some features you may not have known exist!
Workshop was interactive & lasted approx 45 mins
An Introduction: Adding Your Organisation to aDoddle
- Quick guide to creating your profile
- Why Telling the ‘Story’ of your organisation is is important
- The 5 Key things people want to know about your organisation
- Q&A
Workshop was interactive & lasted approx 45 mins
An Introduction to searching aDoddle for local charities, community groups and opportunities
Whether you are looking for:
- Help and support for you, a loved one or friend
- Somewhere to volunteer
- A place to meet and connect with others
- Or a multitude of other reasons
An Introduction to Creating Lists of Your Favourite Profiles
Create lists to categorise and save your favourite projects when using the aDoddle search. You have full control of your lists, make them available to share with the others, or simply keep them private so that they are only visible to you.
- Guide to creating your first list
- Adding Your favourite profiles
- Sharing with others
Introducing aDoddle’s New Quick Guides Hub
Click by Click guides to help you to make the most of your profile on aDoddle. See how easy it is to:
- Create a profile
- Share editing permissions with other other team members
- Duplicate your profile so it shows in other areas as well
- Create lists of your favourite profiles to share with others or for your own use
Creating Your Profile Header in Canva & Adding it to Your Profile
- Why having a header image is important
- How to create one using Canva
- How to upload it to your profile
- Q&A
An Introduction to Creating ‘Duplicate’ Profiles on the Map
- Guide to ‘Duplicating’ an existing profile, so that it will show in other locations
- How by having a master profile and duplicating it you can increase your reach
- How to add ‘extra’ information to duplicate profiles
- Q&A
An Introduction to Transferring Profiles and Setting Up or Removing Profile Editing Permissions
Did you know that you have the ability to transfer a profile that you have created to another person, or if you have a team member that you would like to have access to the profile to edit it you can do that with just a few clicks of a button?
Watch the replay to:
- Learn how to transfer a profile
- How to track the transfer process
- How to allocate editing permissions for team members
- How to remove editing permissions
Making the Most of Your Newsletter
Those of you who are active on social media platforms will likely be familiar with the recent outage that affected Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. We expect that many of you may do much of the promotion & awareness raising of your organisation through social media, and so this may have been a stressful time.
Positives can be taken from the outage though, as now is a great time to begin expanding your reach to new platforms. The unfortunate reality of many social media platforms is that they could be ‘taken away’ from you in an instant. Email newsletters are a great way to reach out to people who want to hear from your organisation, and importantly, your email list is yours, and can’t be taken away on a whim, meaning that your newsletter has the potential to be your most powerful marketing tool – and you own it!
The aim of the workshop is for us to share some of what we have learnt and for you to share as well, for the session to be a safe space for open discussion. Remember your newsletter is yours no matter what. Only you can decide what is valuable to share and there is a process to getting it off the ground and keeping it running.
Catch Up - Other Past Events
Digital Leaders: Public Sector Innovation Week - March 2024
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the concept of connected communities has taken on a new significance. A connected community is not just a group of people who live in close proximity; it’s a tapestry of individuals, organisations, and businesses that are bound together by a shared sense of purpose, mutual support, and a commitment to our collective well-being
The Challenges of Navigating Local Resources
Despite the abundance of amazing support available within these communities, many individuals struggle to find the resources they need when they need them most. This can be attributed to a complex web of factors, including:
- Fragmented information: Local support systems are often scattered across various websites, directories, and social media pages, making it difficult for individuals to find the information they seek.
- Lack of accessibility: Accessibility barriers, such as language barriers, lack of digital literacy, or physical limitations, can hinder individuals’ ability to access and utilise available support.
- Invisibility of support: Many valuable resources, such as community groups or volunteer-led initiatives, may not have the visibility they deserve, making them difficult to discover.
aDoddle’s Network of Interconnected Community Maps
aDoddle.org has the potential to revolutionise the landscape of community support through its network of interconnected community maps. By bringing together a wealth of local information from across the UK, as aDoddle grows it will create a comprehensive and centralised repository of support options, making it easier than ever for individuals to find the help they need.
When Tech for Good Can Be a Beacon of Hope and Connection
Let’s explore together the potential for the transformative power that aDoddle’s Community Mapping could bring. It is more than a technology platform, it is dedicated to enriching the social fabric of communities, empowering individuals, fostering collaboration, and promoting positive change.
The true impact of aDoddle extends far beyond what we can measure. Behind each statistic, each story of success, could be an individual whose life has been changed by the ability to connect with support, opportunities and in the process, has been given hope.
Imagine someone who, through aDoddle, finds the resources they need to overcome a challenging situation. This could be a person who regains employment after a period of joblessness, someone who completes therapy and regains their mental health, someone who finds a volunteering opportunity that gets them back out into the world or someone who connects with others in their community, forming meaningful relationships that go on to enrich their lives.
The ripple effect of such a story is beyond imagination. When one person finds their footing, their story inspires others to seek help and support. When one person contributes meaningfully to their community, they spark a wave of positive change that benefits everyone around them.
aDoddle is not just a tool; it’s a catalyst for social transformation. It’s a platform that empowers individuals to take control of their lives, fosters connections that make communities stronger, and promotes a more equitable and just society.
The true impact of aDoddle at its full potential may never be fully known, but we can be certain that it is immense. By connecting individuals with the support they need, aDoddle hopes to that a ripple effect of positive change that will continue to benefit communities for years to come.
Digital Leaders - Public Sector Insights Week
Community Mapping - The Missing Link
aDoddle.org is Community Mapping ‘Out-of-the-box’- a flexible and versatile overarching tool which connects people and communities – one click at a time. Empowering people to find the right choices & opportunities for them, at the right time, in the right location.
The Problem: Across the country the importance & value of Asset Based Community Development is high on the agenda for many organisations, both at a local, regional and national level. The combination of the pandemic and now the cost-of-living crisis, has highlighted the urgency for a resource that helps each sector within all communities to easily:
- Provide an overview of existing community solutions & knowledge, to aid key decision makers, supporting the development of community collaboration, links & networks, leading to the growth of more resilient communities
- Empower people, from the ground up, by helping them to discover the support, opportunities and resources that they can access within their community. From warm spaces, walking for health, support during a crisis, resources to escape abuse, places to volunteer or connect with others, and much more. All of which help to reduce isolation and the impact of crisis situations.
aDoddle.org is positioned perfectly to as the missing link between communities in desperate need of help to develop their resilience.
Join the founder of aDoddle.org, the UK’s first growing network of connected area-based, or niche based, community maps – ‘Out of The Box’, to explore the many ways in which community mapping can help to not only reduce this but also empower people and support the growth of more resilient communities by ‘joining the dots’.
Across the UK there are over 150k charities and even more community groups & projects that provide critical support & opportunities to connect with others. Yet, believe it or not, too often it’s easier to find a restaurant on Google Maps, as there is no central hub that brings this information together. Meaning that information is dis-jointed, incomplete and often out date.
aDoddle.org Community Mapping is about connecting people and communities with the support, opportunities and awareness of resources available to them within their local area. Working together to build more resilient communities.
There will be time for a Q&A at the end.
Other Information: Research from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), commissioned by Eden Project initiative The Big Lunch and funded by the Big Lottery, showed that: Disconnected communities could be costing society £32 billion a year. It also revealed the annual cost to public services of social isolation and disconnected communities, including:
Demand on health services: £5.2 billion (equal to the cost of building 70 new Specialist Emergency Care hospitals )
Demand on policing: £205 million (equal to the median yearly salary of 6584 police officers)
Disconnected communities are also linked to a loss of productivity, with a net cost to the economy of nearly £12 billion every year.
Bournemouth University Students Launch Our 4th Area Based Community Map
On 26th March 2020 students from Bournemouth University held the online launch of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Community Map.
The students produced the launch as part of their university coursework.
The BCP community map was the 4th area-based map to be launched and is part of a planned network of over 400 area maps that are linked to aDoddle.org.
Connected Community Maps are about building a resource that works for the benefit everyone. Bringing together information on local charities, community projects, groups and resources. Making it ‘aDoddle’ for everyone to find community based support, services, tools and resources that may help improve quality of life. Whether that is finding help at a time of crisis (or in time to avoid a crisis), give help through volunteering or locating places to connect with others.