All u3as are equally welcome to adopt SiteWorks and take up the Website hosting offering.

The first step is to register with us – there is a link to the form to do this on the home page (menu Start here). On the form select ‘Click to register interest’. As well as pointing you at general information on this site we ask you to identify one or two Web Managers who will be setting up your site. You will also need to involve your Committee as your Chair/Secretary needs to sign the Trust’s SiteWorks Terms and Conditions.

We have a team of volunteer SiteWorks Supporters and one of them will be allocated to advise and organise the practicalities. We offer a ‘Starter site’, which is essentially an empty site with an example of a Group, an Event, Contacts etc. If you have an exiting website there is no automated migration but much of the content can be copied and pasted.

If your existing site uses the SiteWorks theme and plugins then we should be able to help speed up to the process.

If you are currently using Beacon then some information could be exported from Beacon and, with some manipulation, imported into your SiteWorks site – specifically Group and Group Leader data and venues. If you have information on spreadsheets you may be able to import that after some spreadsheet manipulation.

Additional information that you might find useful can be found by using the menu Web Manager > Install Local WP and Demo site.