Date & location: Saturday 14 September 2013, Edinburgh

More details & tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/7035803277

Funding agreed: £500

Event description: UKGovcamp’s wee Scottish sibling! Format: Old skool govcamp – no added extras! Audience: anyone interested in tech in the government/public/third sector context.

Further details & date: TBC see http://www.librarycamp.co.uk/

Funding agreed: £200

Event description: We want to run Librarycamp 2013. It’s an unconference for up to 250 people.  It’s a free event and open to anyone interested in public libraries and this year we are trying hard to attract more public library staff, customers and people from other sectors like housing and social care (rather than academic librarians). Sessions are pitched on the day and we encourage attendees to try different formats, workshops and discussions rather than traditional presentations. We want lots of discussion plus ACTION (hopefully) around the theme of innovation, user experience, community involvement and transformation in public libraries and the way we think about public libraries. We have two provisional dates either the last Saturday in September of Sat 30 November 2013.

Dates & further info: TBC

Funding agreed: £300

Event description: The format of the event will be loosely based on #opentech – except with a single stream. There will be 4 sessions throughout the day – each with 2 speakers and some time for Q&A with each session having a different ‘chair’.

The Brewery Theatre has been provisionally booked so it will be quite formal for the talks but with plenty of room for people to gather and chat in the studio area. It has a capacity of 90 people so would allow last years Gov:West a chance to grow.

A mix of gov, charity and social enterprise speakers will be invited including people from Bristol CC (including hopefully the Mayor doing an intro), GDS, the Environment Agency, the ODI, Futuregov, the ONS, Deki (a UK Kiva.org), Monmouthshire CC and the Nominet Trust.

Oh it will 95% likely be free – but maybe a fiver on the door like #opentech

Date & further info: TBC

Funding provided: £500

Event description: It;’s an unconference about accountability and good governance in local government.

Likely audience will be local authority Dem Services and scrutiny professionals although we have had some interest from further afield.

Date & further details: probably 21 or 28 September 2013 http://localgovcamp.kindofdigital.com/

Funding provided: £1000

Event description: Like GovCamp, only specifically aimed at local councils.

Date & further details: 9 May 2013, NAO in London http://mailcamp.ukgovcamp.com

Funding provided: £750 [Pizzas (c£200), catering at NAO (c£200), nibbles (c£150) and Lloyd Davis (c£200)]

Event description: MailCamp is a free show & tell event for people interested in how to use email marketing and alerts to engage their audiences.

MailCamp is a practical event of short talks mainly for and by public and charity sector folk, where we share experiences of:

• what makes effective email newsletters
• turning lazy marketing blurb into crisp, useful copy
• how best to keep people coming back through email alerting
• using email to support communities & events
• the strategy side of crafting great emails
• the technical side of email deliverability, design, spam, and legal traps

A big chunk of the session will be show+tell followed up with some Q&A, so we hear not just the amazing case studies, but also tales from around the room about the barriers to using email well, so you can see if others can help out with good ideas.

Funding requested: £500

Date & further details: TBC

Event description: For my NHS Change Day pledge I said I would try to bring some of what I know from other sectors into the NHS. One of these things is my experience of unconferences and open learning event. I plan to hold an event in the summer in Manchester for people who work in communications and have an interest in the NHS and healthcare. Digital and traditional.

Date & further details: 4-6 June 2013, Exeter http://xjamgov.co.uk/

Funding provided: £250

Event description: A 48hr service design event focused on the public sector – it is about bouncing ideas off one another and building on what bounces back. And it’s not just talking – the primary focus in XJamGov is to turn ideas into a concrete design, prototype and plan of action.

Date & further details: TBC

Funding provided: £500

Event description: Purpose: provide a space for people to talk, listen and think about how communication is changing across the public sector and how people can share and exchange information and make connections that can help change the way things are done.

Audience: Scottish comms professionals (will be targeted at those in public sector, but will be open to all).

Format: probably consistent with commscamp: mainly unconference, but there may be a limited number of more formal sessions.

UKGovcamp is an event, first and foremost. It has brought together lots of folk interested in how the UK Public Sector does digital, every year since 2008.

Thanks to many lovely sponsors and the generosity of this year’s hosts, IBM, we’re able to cover the costs of UKGovcamp and have some spare to help support further events to keep the energy flowing all year round.

So UKGovcamp Grants is a small grants scheme to help get these events off the ground, with small contributions towards catering and logistics costs. We’ll consider applications on a rolling basis throughout the year for amounts normally between £100 and £500 for events that:

• are for people in, or interested in, the UK public sector
• are broadly about transparency, engagement or collaboration involving technology (think: websites, social media, data, email, mobile etc)
• don’t have much – if any – other funding or sponsors, and need help to cover catering, venue or logistics costs
• are run on a not-for-profit basis; ideally free to participants

Find out more on the Apply page, and follow the funded projects on this site.