Re-using digital tools at UK charities

The Engine Room is researching the experiences of UK-based organisations re-using existing digital tools in delivering services.

If you work for a UK charity, we'd love to hear from you about your organisation’s experiences of re-using existing digital tools! (At this point in our research, we’re looking at ‘re-use’ as any case of an organisation using a tool for service delivery that they did not build from scratch.)

This work is part of Digital Sparks, a wider project to support UK charities with digital service delivery, and is funded by Comic Relief. Read more about the project.

We’ll use what we find to create a resource to help UK charities like you make decisions about re-using digital tools.

It’s optional to share your email address. We ask for your email address so that we can contact you to learn more about your answers.
Your experiences re-using digital tools
1. Is your organisation registered as a charity in the UK?*
2. What is your organisation's experience of re-using digital tools in service delivery? (Please select all that apply)*
- We've built a digital service using open source code
- We've used and/or customised open-source tools
- We've used and/or customised software as a service (Saas)
- We've used and/or customised proprietary digital tools (instead of building new software)
- We've considered re-using existing tools, but decided against it
- We've opted to build from scratch
- Other
3. Please further describe your answers above in 1 or 2 sentences, and share any relevant links.
(E.g. what digital tools did you use? What services were delivered using the tools?)
Contact information (optional)
A member of The Engine Room re-use project team may reach out to learn more about your experience with re-using digital tools, if you share your email. If you'd rather remain anonymous, it's optional to share this information.
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At any time, you have a right to request all information we hold on you, and we will provide this to you within a month of you asking. If you would like to do this, email sacha@theengineroom.org.

We will keep the answers to this form on servers that we control for six months after the completion of this project, after which time they will be deleted.
I consent to The Engine Room storing my responses for the duration of this research project.*
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Re-using digital tools at UK charities

Your experiences re-using digital tools

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