Leading Charity Offers Free Database to Small Charities and Community Groups

Lasa are offering an Advice and Information Management System database (AIMS Free) to all small community groups and third sector organisations across the UK, to help them deliver their services more efficiently and cost effectively in challenging times.

Last year the AIMS Free package was made available to all voluntary and community sector groups and over 700 groups have downloaded the software to-date.

AIMS Free is simple to use and contains everything needed to start capturing details of clients and outcomes.  From a survey taken of AIMS Free users 60% of respondents said that they found the package ‘very helpful’, and 100% said that they would recommend it to other potential users.

Neal Heuchan, Senior Officer for the Newcastle City Council Welfare Rights Service, has been using AIMS for over ten years; he said:  "It's a great system, easy to use, helps with the case work, and has really useful reports. It's halved the time I spent collating information for management reports".

There is also a paid for version of the AIMS software.  Like AIMS Free, this version comes with extensive guides and support materials, but also includes a full support contract, tutorials, and training courses held throughout the year.  Details about the package and instructions on how to download and install AIMS Free can be found at www.lasa.org.uk/aims