We’re delighted the Liberal Democrats chose Prater Raines to develop and host their websites for their national, regional and local parties. We’re really proud of the Fleet platform we’ve built alongside them, and now supports over 300 Liberal Democrat websites.
As we’ve been working with the Party for 21+ years, we knew the challenges, especially around election times. Visitor numbers increase, by a factor, fast, and then do it again through to polling day.
So in May, when a snap General Election was called, we knew we had to be ready. And so did our website hosting.
A Folkestone charity has £10,000 backing for a new digital support project in the town following a grant from the Nominet GiveHub scheme.
Nominet GiveHub is an opportunity for Nominet members to support an organisation of their choice. A fund of £50k each month is available. Applications are reviewed monthly by the GiveHub panel.
The grant application must link to at least one of Nominet’s Public Benefit pillars: Connected, Inclusive and Secure.
Always good to wake up news to the news that a friend and client has had a major success, and we got that news today!
Huge congratulations to the new MP for Somerton and Frome Sarah Dyke.
Sarah’s campaign website at sarahdyke.uk was based on our Fleet service for the Liberal Democrats. Sites can be put together and launched at speed but with wide ranging functionality, with data flowing directly from website sign-ups, petition signatories and volunteer offers into the Party’s key campaigning database.
Nominet, the public benefit company that operates and protects .UK internet infrastructure, has partnered with The Institute of Coding (IoC). Together, they are launching an ambitious programme at scale to change the course of the UK’s growing digital skills shortage and pull down the barriers many face trying to enter the rapidly-evolving workforce.
Prater Raines have been accredited Nominet Channel Partners since 2007.
Nominet has committed to £12m in funding over three years to develop the Click Start programme with the IoC, led by the University of Bath. There will be opportunities for over 26,000 learners to take part in the initiative – these could be anyone from veterans looking for a career change, to underrepresented groups who are looking for an introduction to entry level tech and digital roles, to young learners looking to start their careers.
We’re delighted that our very own Tim Prater has been selected to join the Nominet Members GiveHub Panel for 2022/23.
Prater Raines have been Nominet members since 2007. Tim applied to join the panel as he has extensive experience of evaluating competing bids and prioritisation through his time as a Councillor and Charity Trustee.
The Members’ GiveHub is an opportunity for Nominet members to support an organisation of their choice.
A fund of £50k each month is available. Applications are reviewed monthly by the GiveHub panel, a group of up to seven volunteers from the membership.
Members can apply for one grant for one organisation of up to £10,000 per financial year (1st April – 31st March) or multiple grants for multiple organisations up to a total of £10,000 per financial year. Organisations that receive funding will not be eligible for further funding until the next financial year regardless of the amount awarded.
Prater Raines are delighted that we have been selected to develop “Fleet”, a complete new website platform for the Liberal Democrats.
Prater Raines have been working with the Liberal Democrats since 2002. In that time, we’ve provided up to 300 local party websites through our custom built Foci service. So building on this expertise, we’re excited to be working alongside the Liberal Democrats on Fleet, their next generation website service.
Prater Raines is an “accredited channel partner” (domain registrars and member) of Nominet, the .uk domain registry. We therefore receive regular news and updates from the industry. The most recent edition includes some interesting statistics of domain name registration growth this year. It’s clear that many businesses looked to move online at speed during the first, and second, UK Covid lockdowns.
In recent weeks, we’ve spent time updating and improving the Sandgate Business Directory to be even better! There are new images of local businesses, opening hours and contact information.
As it is a difficult time with another Lockdown, we have added information about delivery and collection services that are currently being offered. Helping everyone to keep on going during this very difficult time!
Sandgate Business Directory offers a free entry for every local business. The directory contains a geolocated business finder with map view, based on OpenStreetMap. This links to a full page entry for each business. There are local events listed such as the Farmer’s market and local sports events. Built on WordPress and hosted and supported on our own UK servers.
Great to relaunch the Midas Training website this week. We rebuilt their existing site on WordPress, hosted and supported by us on our own UK based servers.
We moved all existing content from the former Midas Training website to the new one. In the process we fixed up some content on transfer, and set-up their WordPress site using our tried and tested WordPress solution.
Lib Dem Draw for 2020 is now being launched!
Back in 2018 Prater Raines were delighted to relaunch the long running Lib Dem Christmas Draw as an online draw.
The draw was run again in 2019 (despite much of the draw period being during an unexpected General Election campaign) and raised thousands again for Lib Dem Local Parties and other organisations, and is being run for 2020 now – the Lib Dem Draw 2020 date will be 10th December, with more great prizes!