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Cravenplan Computers has featured regularly in the local press as we are a high-profile company with many local connections. We have always focused on good relations with local businesses and have made many friends (both personally and professionally) through our free seminars. For some years Chris Stanbury also contributed regular articles to The Salisbury Journal.

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Quiz boost for Hope and Homes for Children

It was a case of "hair today, gone tomorrow" when Chris Stanbury of Cravenplan Computers had his beard shaved off and his hari cut in aid of Salisbury-based charity Hope and Homes for Children at a quiz evening at Salisbury Arts Centre.

This was an amazing sacrifice for Chris, the new chairman of the charity's support group, who has never been without a beard since he was a boy. His sacrifice has already raised more than £6,000 in sponsorship.

Hope and Homes for Children specialises in tracing relatives for abandoned children in war torn countries, or if this is unsuccessful, finding family homes for these orphans. The charity aims to make the most of the donations and contributions it receives, not only directly but also by taking care to use local labour and committed local people, thus avoiding the corruption that can often be associated with work in deprived areas of the world - 87% of the money raised is sent to the countries they work in. Hope and Homes for Children was founded in 1994 by Mark and Caroline Cook. Mark, then the British UN Commander in Croatia, left his 30 year army career after making a promise to help 60 children living under bombardment in the cellar of their destroyed orphanage. The charity has now expanded to provide support to families and children right across Eastern Europe, into Africa and further afield.

Communities get the chance to make a mark on the world wide web

Voluntary groups, charities, individuals and small businesses can now create their own website free of charge, thanks to Wiltshire Community Web.

Kennet, North Wiltshire and West Wiltshire district councils have followed Salisbury District Council and signed up to Neighbourhood Web, a software tool that enables anyone to develop a website in less than one hour.

The launch of the Community Web in Wiltshire is part of the e-government scheme, a programme designed to encourage the public to use the web to communicate with, and access information from, their local authority.

Neighbourhood Web was designed by Cravenplan Computers of Swallowcliffe.

Managing director Chris Stanbury said: "I am confident the programme will be a huge success and will establish Wiltshire as an excellent example to other local authorities who are seeking to encourage greater use of on-line communications."

Sharon Leney, of Community First, the organisation that is managing the programme for Wiltshire, said: "We are very excited about the whole programme and are looking forward to having hundreds of sites developed within our community web over the coming months.

"The idea is simple - to allow local groups, individuals and small businesses the chance to build and maintain websites for free and provide a single place in which a range of community sites can link and be easily found."

The site can be found at www.wiltshirecommunityweb.org.uk.

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