The Volunteer Information Centre Lancaster is calling for web designers to put the skills to charitable use.

"WEbsites are an increasinly important tool in how organisations interact with the community and raise their profile,"said John Atkins, co-ordinator of VIC.

Visit their website at www.volunteer-information-centre.org (see link below).

Charitable organisations can use the Communigate free web site service (see link below) on www.thisislancashire.co.uk and www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk to build free websites for their non-profit group.