Iomart’s know-how helps lotto cope in crisis
Iomart, the Glasgow-headquartered cloud computing group, has supported a technology transformation for the National Lottery Community Fund, enabling it to deliver vital financial support during the pandemic.
The fund is one of the non-departmental public bodies responsible for distributing lottery funding to good causes and is the largest funder of communities in the UK.
I omar t’ s consultancy team has spent the past three years working with the fund’ s director of technology and data, Matthew Green, to redefine its technology and infrastructure. The value of the overhaul became acutely apparent as the Covid-19 crisis began. By the time the first lockdown began last march, the fund’ s 850 employees were already working from home.
Staff were able to collaborate online, sending and receiving in excess of four million emails and holding almost 1,000 calls and meetings everyday.
Green, who led the project, said: “The fund has distributed over £500 million of National Lottery and funding from government since lockdown began in March 2020, which would have been incredibly challenging to do with our old systems. Thanks to the partnership with Iomart, we have enabled our colleagues to get vital funds to the communities that need them.”
Nick Martin, director of consulting for Iomart, added: “Our expertise in optimising the user experience as well as introducing new technologies enables us to help organisations like the National Lottery Community Fund to improve their effectiveness.”
Iomart’s latest results showed revenues up two per cent, year-on-year.