Newsletter: March 2021

We email news to everyone who signs up on our homepage. This newsletter was sent on 16 March 2021.

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A while ago you kindly signed up for news about social ventures incubator CanDo on our website, teamcando.com.  We only send email when there’s something to say: today we have two pieces of news to share (and one request):

1) We’ve released our mobile phone experience for older people

2) We’ve launched an inexpensive family admin service

3) We’re looking to share office space in central London

1) Chatsie: a totally new mobile phone experience for older people and their families

It’s well known that older people often find mobile phones difficult to use. CanDo have just launched Chatsie: a suite of apps which sit on top of Android and radically simplify the experience of using a mobile phone.  There are no difficult-to-interpret “icons”: just crystal-clear menu options labelled “Call Jemma” or “Text Kirsty”, and so on.  You manage the phone on the web, so if your older loved one asks you to add or change a contact you can do that online wherever you are. It’s easy to open third party apps like WhatsApp, and unwanted phone notifications are blocked.

Try Chatsie today at Chatsie.com: signups in March get a free 3-year license!

2) FamilyTasks: an inexpensive family admin service

In 2020 we launched AdminBusters, a “PAs-as-a-service” business to reduce the life admin burden of older people (and everyone else!).  We subsequently found that many of AdminBusters’ clients are busy parents of young or school-age children, so we’ve designed a proposition specifically for that audience.  We recently launched FamilyTasks which offers a menu of fixed price family-related tasks starting at £5/task (and bespoke tasks for 50p/minute). FamilyTasks specialises in helping with admin relating to home, school, family health, pets, looking after older family members, and making time for family fun too.  

Do check it out and sign up at FamilyTasks.co.uk. 

3) Can we share your office?

Our small, friendly team (just three London-based permanent staff at the moment, growing to four or five this year) will need desks when lockdown ends.  We don’t all want to do 5 days per week in the office, so ideally we’d share with another organisation who don’t need all their desks every day either.  If you know an organisation who might be amenable to that sort of relationship, please let me know :)

Thank you!

George Bevis

Founder, CanDo