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Inter Activ is a service provided by Portsmouth-based charity Enable Ability – and funded by the National Lottery since 2019 – that seeks to help people with learning difficulties, such as autism, to gain the skills and confidence to find meaningful employment. 

Over the past years, even with the complexities brought by the Covid pandemic, the service has adapted its workplace experiences to include:

  • IT hardware and software repair.
  • Marketing and sales of repaired equipment.
  • Food preparation and table serving in a busy café.
  • Arts and Crafts.
  • Horticulture.
  • Walkthrough and static video creation.

Now we are adding an exciting new skills work-stream focused on the design, build and support of websites and we call this service:

~ Inter Activ Community ~

Our intention is to integrate this in due course with other established work-streams to create an Inter Activ Technology Hub offering our young participants the ability to work in a number of different technology areas to broaden their own CV’s.

Our Service at a glance…

We offer small charities and community groups, based primarily in Portsmouth and the surrounding area, a free website build service with low-cost ongoing hosting and support.

The website build and support will be undertaken by people with learning difficulties under the supervision of an experienced skills coach. 

Hosting will be provided by our partner Kualo who provide free hosting to registered charities – subject to approval – but as a reseller we then offer services to groups who are not registered as charities, and others.

Ongoing support will be provided by Inter Activ Community, subject to agreed terms and conditions, and will incur a small monthly or annual charge. We will ask you to sign a contract beforehand but this should not be seen as onerous or prohibitive.

We will produce the website in a test environment that you can view online. We will look to you to provide content such as imagery and words but we can assist with formatting.

The design of our service is two-fold and a real win-win for both parties. You get the ability to have your own website presence which may have been unaffordable in the past and by doing so you give our service participants the chance to work on real-life web services which they can then add to their own CV. The hosting charges then help us to pay for the salary of our skills coach and keep the service sustainable.

We really believe that by partnering with Kualo and engaging with the local charity and community sector that we can increase our reach whilst helping others achieve their own goals too.

Your Questions Answered:

We build the sites using WordPress which is a free and open software platform that provides excellent modular support but does not limit technical understanding of code such as HTML, CSS, PHP and Java. Using various plug-ins we configure the site to allow it to be secure and reliable whilst meeting the needs of our local clients.

Base technical functions for each website can include:

  • Security firewall and SSL certificate (https://)
  • Incremental backups
  • email accounts x2
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • 1-5 pages
  • Privacy policy
  • Contact forms
  • Google captcha & maps
  • News posts (mobile app updating)
  • Image gallery
  • 1GB space
  • 4 page updates per year
  • Technical support via email.

Additional functionality can be available but may incur additional charges:

  • Events posts
  • Newsletters
  • User profiles
  • Forms
  • Online shop

Yes you can have a domain name of your own choosing. There are many domain registrars who sell names for an annual fee of around £12 but we would recommend doing so via our hosting company Kualo. We can help you do this and include your domain name in your annual fee if you wish.

Alternatively you can have your domain name for free by using a sub-domain of interactiv-community, for example:

https://yourgroupname.interactiv-community.org.uk

It’s not necessary to have your own logo but it can help promote your group and help others remember you. If you have thoughts about what a logo might look like but don’t know how you might produce one then please let us know and we can look at building something for you. There may be a small charge but that will depend on the type of logo.

Building a website for you involves a number of factors including the number of pages, amount of content, style of layout and imagery. We will ask you to provide text and images but of course we can look for some stock images to help make your site look the best.

But to give you an example a single page site which is just an information page could take less than a week to build whilst a more complex one could take a few months, depending on you and your wishes.

Hosting charges vary based on the size of your site, which is mostly driven by the number of pages you have, plus whether your site is likely to remain static or will require regular updates.

Our hosting charges are as follows (remember the build is free):

Site PagesSupport Calls/yearMonthly priceAnnual price
1-54£10£100
6-105£15£150
10-156£20£200
15-206£25£250

Our preferred initial contact method is via email to sales@interactiv-community.org.uk or you might wish to fill in the contact form below. We will endeavour to respond to you in two working days (note: we do not work at weekends).

 

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