Dive in to our digital resources: they are all free to access, and cover a wide range of digital, data and design areas.
If you would like us to try and source a tool to help you with a digital project you are working on - please get in touch.
Digital Toolkit
25 free tools and resources, designed to support organisations moving through a process of researching, defining and developing a digital product, platform or service.
Follow the four stages of Mindset > Discover > Define > Develop. Each stage is divided into clear steps, with information and resources.
Learn user research: free course
Join this free self-serve course to learn about different types of user research and key recruiting principles, as well as how to write research questions and synthesise your interview notes.
You’ll receive an email every week for seven weeks, with advice and a host of additional resources.
Learn design thinking: free course
Join this free course to learn about design thinking, with information and support on turning data into actionable ideas, testing ways to adapt your services, creating design and delivery roadmaps - and more!
You’ll receive an email every week for five weeks, with advice and a host of additional resources.
Digital Leadership Star
A tool designed by CAST and Deepr, to help track digital leads’ development.
Users can map their current levels of confidence, knowledge, connection and influence relating to digital - and can then return to track progress. To access this resource you will need to create an account.
Digital Principles
10 digital principles designed in conjunction with charities, funders and agencies in the sector. These principles can be used as a guiding light when building any digital service.
They can act as a first step in getting the right mindset before embarking on a digital project, as well as a guide to stay on track throughout. You can even use them as a basis to run a workshop with your team or organisation, to help create excitement and buy-in for digital best practice and ways of working.
Shared Digital Guides
Shared Digital Guides (formerly ‘Service Recipes’) are practical guides on using digital, data and design - written by charities, for charities. So far, more than 80 Guides have been shared - and this number is growing.
Browse the current library of digital guides - and add your own!
AI Resources
We have created a living library of resources that we hope will support you as you explore the challenges and opportunities associated with AI. We’ll add to this section regularly; if there is anything you would particularly like to see added, or anything you need support with, please contact us at [email protected] - thank you!