Here at Mast we are celebrating our 10th year of supporting non-profit, fundraising and membership organisations.

We launched Mast in 2010 to provide a range of consultancy services to help NFP organisations get the most from their investment in technology. We are so proud to be celebrating 10 years helping NFP, fundraising and membership organisations with industry-leading support and practical solutions that make a positive impact to their organisational processes.

Bringing MAST ICT into the project totally changed our approach. They helped us define a new logical data model, which helped resolve the issues with our business processes – RoSPA

Celebrating the big 1-0 with chase.livestream

Whilst for obvious reasons, things have been very “different” over the past few months, we still wanted to celebrate this important milestone. Although our original plans have had to change rather drastically, we are still looking to celebrate at Chase.LiveStream this year. If you are attending this year’s online event, please do come visit our hub and see what we have in store to mark our special occasion.

Launching our updated website and branding to welcome the new decade

We are excited to announce that we are updating our branding and website to mark our 10 year anniversary. We’re rebranding with an updated colour scheme, website and literature. Lots of things have changed in 10 years, so we now feel that 2020 is the right time to rebrand from “MAST ICT” to “Mast”.

Our culture, team and spirit remain the same, but we’re excited to launch Mast into the new decade with a new look.

Mast are now Salesforce.com partners

In order to better support our current and future clients, we are delighted to announce that we have recently been awarded the status of Salesforce.com partners. We see the huge benefits that this solution has for our clients and we are now able to offer Salesforce consultancy services within the NFP Sector.

We look forward to providing Salesforce support for our clients to the same high standard as our other services.

We will be growing our team of Salesforce consultants over the coming months and plan to become Salesforce.org partners next year.

Looking ahead to the next 10 years

The NFP sector has evolved considerably since 2010 and the way in which organisations utilise technology has helped many dramatically improve their efficiency and capabilities.

At Mast, we constantly remain abreast of current trends and new solutions that could potentially bring benefits to our clients and as an organisation we look to react and adjust to those trends ourselves.

With new technology, system updates and organisational changes come challenges and pit-falls requiring the support of organisations like Mast. We’re here to advise our clients, supporting them through problems and guiding them to solutions.

As an important example, anyone who has recently looked at the CRM marketplace will not have been able to miss the transformation that as well as “Packages” being available, which provide a great solution for many NFP based organisations, there are now “Platforms”, such as Salesforce and Dynamics.

Whilst in our opinion Platforms are not for every organisation of every size, we feel that their potential is very exciting and is providing flexible, modern, accessible solutions that are designed with cloud-computing in mind.

In addition, with “digital transformation” now quite rightly being a critical component in the strategies of many organisations, cloud-based systems are ideally placed to offer the level of integration with other systems and services, which is required to fully “digitise” an organisation.

A little more about us

Back in 2010, as now, we wanted to create an organisation that was fully focussed on delivering high quality, honest and knowledgeable CRM based services to the not for profit sector.

Our approach has seen us grow steadily and we are very proud of our highly skilled, experienced consultants who are fully aligned with the Mast ethos. We work with a large number of clients, some since our inception and spanning many different CRM systems and solutions such as:

  • Care NG
  • Integra NG
  • Open Engage
  • iMIS
  • Sodalitas
  • Donorfy

As, at our heart, we are a CRM consultancy, we provide core CRM-based services such as:

  • Implementation
  • Reviews
  • Upgrades
  • Training

We work openly and transparently to help organisations discover the full potential of their CRM, fundraising or database system. We are dedicated to seeking out the best possible CRM solutions and building long-term relationships with our clients.

Although we are technical consultants with years of industry expertise and experience at your disposal, we speak plain English too and by avoiding any unnecessary technical jargon, we ensure that we communicate our solutions and benefits into business terms that mean something to you.

Our skills are not simply CRM system-focused based however. We are highly experienced in providing advice and assistance within the entire CRM ecosystem and also focus on key elements that will enhance and make a CRM system truly work for our clients, for example by providing services in the following areas:

  • System Integration
  • Process Automation
  • Reporting & Data Analysis
  • Data Migration
  • Data Synchronization

What our clients say about us

We are always delighted when we hear from our clients about how much we have helped:

“MAST’s expertise was invaluable in our migration to Donorfy. They acted like true partners, and on top of detailed technical knowledge of the system, their input on our general procedures and processes has helped us to improve the way we work. Among other steps forward, we now have very useful integrations with JustGiving, Mailchimp and other important technologies, we can automate our email fundraising campaigns and we’re much better equipped to handle GDPR.

Now that we’re on a Cloud platform, access is so much faster and easier, without system crashes. MAST consultant Sophie Pires became like a member of the team, and delivered excellent training in spite of the fact we went into Covid-19 lockdown the week before launch. MAST gave us some tough love at times to help resolve issues and went above and beyond to help deliver a successful migration.” – Addenbrookes Charitable Trust

“Everyone trusts the work that MAST ICT does, so if they say we have to do something a certain way, then people are happy to work with that. It shows that they have the kind of backing and trust across the team to make change happen.” – RCPCH

“MAST ICT have supported the upgrade and modernisation of our systems. Their work with us and the ongoing support they provide is invaluable to us. They have helped us navigate a complex project through their in-depth technical knowledge of the systems and understanding of our organisation.” – Mother’s Union

“Without a doubt, MAST ICT have accelerated the process of launching this system by at least 6 months. The alternative would have been to employ someone permanently to be an expert in this area, this would have driven up our costs.” – Care for the Family

And finally but most importantly, thank you to you!

We would like to thank all of our clients who we have worked with over the past 10 years for giving us the opportunity to make a difference to the way in which they operate and provide the services they do. Feedback from our clients is very important to us and we are very proud to have received 100% positive feedback from them in a recent survey. However we are never complacent and always strive to do the best possible job we can.

We are looking forward to continuing our relationships with our current clients and to meeting many new organisations, finding out about the work they do and helping them to get the best use from their CRM systems.

Whilst in many cases it is business as usual for us going forward, with our new brand and our exciting additional Salesforce support offering, we are looking forward to the future and continuing to support the NFP Sector.

Hopefully we will see you at Chase.LiveStream!