Concern Worldwide's London office has been successfully relocated after a fire devastated their premises in Battersea. Scanning company, Scancapture Ltd have been scanning and saving all of Concerns Direct Debit Mandates and Gift Aid Declarations for the past two years on an-going basis and this has proved an extremely important benefit to Concern as it is feared the majority of paper documents have been lost in the fire.?

Thousands of images are stored onto CD at Scancaptures offices in Lancashire, which means that all donors details and the original, signed documentation is safe, secure and recoverable. All paper documentation can be displayed on computer screen by keying in a donors unique membership number, and printed out if necessary. ?Concern has been using Scancaptures services since August 2003, as they scan and produce images of Concerns Direct Debit Mandates and Gift Aid Declarations on an on-going basis.

This enables the charity to keep a digital image (saved in TIF format) of donors' Direct Debit Mandates and Gift Aid Declarations and link them to their records on their supporter database. This helps reduce the amount of paper records that need storage, and makes accessing the data faster and cheaper.