How Copilot and AI Can Work For Your Council
Inside the Microsoft 365 Copilot Prompt-a-thon at Dunstable Town Council: Most councils with Microsoft 365 Copilot are using a fraction of it. Licences are liv ...
AI for Town and Parish Councils – Clerks AI Day, Milton Keynes
What Happened at the Clerks AI Day, Milton Keynes: On Tuesday 7 July we spent the day at Campbell Park Community Council in Milton Keynes with clerks, deputy c ...
Akhils Silver DofE and Work Experience Journey
How I found CloudyIT: I first found out about CloudyIT from my computer science teacher, and I’m glad I did because I’ve learned many useful skills that are su ...
Decisions Updates: Customer Communication
What’s New in GovMeetings: We’re pleased to share a number of recent updates to GovMeetings (Decisions), designed to make meetings easier to manage, improve acc ...
AI in Local Government: Reflections from the Northamptonshire Workshop
A Day Shaped by Councils, for CouncilsOn 7 November 2025, local councils from across Northamptonshire gathered at Northants CALC for a day of open conversation ...
GovFinance: Driving Council Efficiency Through Innovation, Automation, and AI
As Microsoft evolves its Dynamics 365 Business Central platform through its twice-yearly Wave updates, CloudyIT continues to develop its own enhancements in ste ...
When it rains, it pours (and sometimes blows a fuse): Highlights from DisGovery Day Wales
Wales gave us a warm (and very wet) welcome as we hosted our first Welsh DisGovery Day at Maesteg Town Council this September. The rain may have been relentl ...
Welcoming to Wales
Croeso I Gymru ! As they say/sing in Wales -We’ll keep a welcome in the hillside, we’ll keep a welcome in the Vales, This land you know will still be singin ...
AI in Local Government: Councillors Take the Lead
When the right partners come together, meaningful change follows. Our recent AI in Local Government workshop, delivered in partnership with Somerset Association ...
TechLab Bucks 2025: Real Skills for a Changing World
From 30th June to 4th July 2025, the Cloudy Foundation TechLab Challenge took place at Bucks New University’s Aylesbury Campus, bringing together students from ...
TechLab 2025: Young Minds, Real Innovation
From 16th to 20th June 2025, the Cloudy Foundation hosted its latest TechLab Challenge at the vibrant UA92 campus in Manchester - a week of innovation, creativ ...
Future-Proofing Council Meetings: Why Now Is the Time to Invest in Hybrid Meeting Technology
Local government is evolving—and so are the expectations for accessibility, transparency, and resilience. Following the UK Government’s latest response to its c ...
Celebrating Another Brilliant DisGovery Day – This Time in Dunstable!
On Thursday, 15th May, CloudyIT was proud to host its third DisGovery Day, this time with the warm support of the fantastic team at Dunstable Town Council. Foll ...
Celebrating the Success of CloudyIT’s Trowbridge DisGovery Day
On Wednesday, 5th March, CloudyIT hosted another successful DisGovery Day, this time at Trowbridge Town Council. Designed to bring council clerks, finance offic ...
Aiden McCarthy Work Experience January 2025
Introduction At CloudyIT, we pride ourselves on being a forward-thinking IT company, dedicated to helping organisations unlock the potential of technology. E ...
Welcome to Tina Cunnell’s Clerk Insights Blog
Introducing Tina Cunnell: You can connect with Tina on LinkedIn. Tina Cunnell is a dedicated and highly experienced Town Clerk with a remarkable career spa ...
Celebrating the Success of CloudyIT’s First DisGovery Day
On 14th November, CloudyIT proudly hosted its inaugural DisGovery Day at Taunton Town Council's new offices. Designed as an exclusive in-person training and exp ...
Enhancing Council Security with a .gov.uk Domain: CloudyIT’s Comprehensive Support
In an era where digital security and compliance are paramount, transitioning to a .gov.uk domain represents a significant step for Town and Parish Councils in E ...
Angela Rayner’s Pledge to Support Virtual Meetings for Councils: How CloudyIT is Paving the Way
Angela Rayner’s Pledge to Support Virtual Meetings for Councils: How CloudyIT is Paving the Way Angela Rayner’s recent announcement to support councils with st ...
Revolutionising Local Governance with GovAssist AI: The Future of Town and Parish Councils
Revolutionising Local Governance with GovAssist AI: The Future of Town and Parish Councils In today’s fast-paced world, Town and Parish Councils across England ...
Celebrate Your Council Clerk: Nominate for NALC Star Council Awards Clerk of the Year
Celebrate Your Council Clerk: Nominate for NALC Star Council Awards Clerk of the Year CloudyIT is thrilled to sponsor the "Clerk of the Year" category at the ...
Top 5 Things Councils and Organisations Can Do to Protect Their IT Systems
I'm Martyn Boyle, the Security & Incident Response Manager at CloudyIT. Every day, I work closely with councils and organisations to safeguard their IT syst ...
Jacob’s Journey from the Enterprise Academy to Work Experience
I am Jacob and I spent the last week doing work experience at CloudyIT.I found CloudyIT through the Cloudy Foundation Enterprise Academy, an online programme to ...
Callum Nottingham’s Work Experience
I am Callum Nottingham and this last week I have been doing work experience at CloudyIT. I found CloudyIT through a website that was sent out by my school which ...
From Smart Cities to Smart Places – Why size doesn’t matter for digital innovation
Thank you to Linda Chandler, Industry Executive for Local Regional Government at Microsoft, for contributing this article. Here, Linda elaborates on key poin ...
Kane’s Work Experience Story
https://youtu.be/srCtNF00SHMHi, my name is Kane Partridge, I am 16 years old and in my spare time I do lots of coding in C#, C++ and a bit of Java. I have curre ...
Broadcasting Council Meetings – Modern Democracy or Passing Fad?
Guest blog from Woughton Community Council, Council Manager, Steve McNay. Feature image credit: Woughton Community Council's Policy & Resources Committee, ...
What does the Microsoft New Commerce Experience Mean for Your Organisation?
By now, you’ve probably heard that a Microsoft price increase is coming in March 2022. But did you realise that this is the first one of its kind in the last 10 ...
Guest Blog: Browsers, Advertising and Privacy
A student-inspired new arm to the Cloudy Enterprise Academy was engineered this summer as an unprecedented silver lining of “new normal” remote working.
Cloudy Enterprise Academy recruit Aaran Chauhan joins the Cloudy IT Team
A student-inspired new arm to the Cloudy Enterprise Academy was engineered this summer as an unprecedented silver lining of “new normal” remote working.
On cloud nine with our Corporate Social Responsibility Award
After what’s been a challenging year for everyone, we’re over the moon to have won the Corporate Social Responsibility Award in the Buckinghamshire Business Awa ...
10 ways Microsoft Teams is making meetings easier to manage for council officers
Lockdown started almost 12 months to the day, thrusting councils into a brave new world of online meetings. While many initially used Zoom, increasing numbers a ...
5 handy (not Handforth) tips for online meeting etiquette
Handforth Parish Council are back – and this time it’s personal. Yes, their misadventures continue to make headlines as an object lesson in how not to run an online meeting.
What’s your organisation’s Cyber Resilience Score?
In other words, what is the chance of you or your business being the target of a cyber-criminal, and if so, are you well placed to recover?
Brexit and GDPR – what you need to know
Most organisations work with Personal Data in one form or another and will have their Privacy Policy and Notices in place. Many of these are likely to refer to ‘EU GDPR’, this will need to be amended to ‘UK GDPR’
Donate 2 Educate
Donate 2 Educate – Help us to support the digital education needs of families in Buckinghamshire by donating working laptops and PCs to them.
Cyber security is for life, not just Cyber Monday
Find out what went on at CloudyIT’s live summit on cyber security – our first to be delivered remotely – and how you can benefit from future events.
Do you have a technical challenge inside your Council that you are struggling to find a solution for?
At Cloudy Group we pride ourselves on our ability to overcome problems, not only that, we have been doing it for 17 years and our team love using their technical knowledge to create new and innovative solutions for Councils and Businesses all over the UK.
The New Cloudy Foundation Enterprise Academy Gets to Work “Virtually”
We are thrilled to have been awarded a Silver CSR Accreditation and to be recognised among the world’s leading organisations investing in doing socially responsible business.
Planting Trees on Behalf of our Customers
We are delighted to be partnering with the Green Earth Appeal to have trees planted in developing world countries for every new CloudyIT modernisation customer.
Cloudy Group Achieve Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Accreditation
We are thrilled to have been awarded a Silver CSR Accreditation and to be recognised among the world’s leading organisations investing in doing socially responsible business.
A Cloudy Enterprise Academy Tech Star is Born
A student-inspired new arm to the Cloudy Enterprise Academy was engineered this summer as an unprecedented silver lining of “new normal” remote working.
A new (more visually compelling) chapter
We’re rebranding! See how our branding is changing to reflect our own modernisation journey as we keep pace with the fast-moving digital world…
Stream your Microsoft Teams meetings via Youtube
Engage with the public and stream your Microsoft Teams hosted council meeting live to Youtube. If this is something your council wants to do but […]
Why Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is important…
Before I chat about CSR, I want to chat about YOU. Why YOU? Well, any successful CSR program starts with YOU, a person who’s passion […]
Careers Excellence Awards 2019 – Cloudy Group announced “Small Employer of the Year” winners
Cloudy Group is delighted to announce our success in the Careers Excellence Awards 2019 in the Small or Medium Employer of the Year category.
Small or Medium Employer of the Year is awarded to an employer that is delivering their own tailored programme to schools or colleges, demonstrated through both an innovative approach and delivery of meaningful encounters for young people.
The Chartered Institute of IT Celebrate CloudyGroup “Appiness”
CloudyGroup was pleased to have reporter, Claire Penketh, from the Chartered Institute of IT join the App-Prentice Challenge team for our visit to Aylesbury Vale Academy (AVA) back in June 2019. This marked our first event of 2019, where AVA’s Year 9s took on the Challenge in spectacular form. Read more about the event here
Cloudy Group make the award shortlist for the Careers Excellence Awards 2019 Small Employer of the Year
CloudyGroup is delighted to have made the awards shortlist for Small Employer of the Year on the Careers & Enterprise Company’s Careers Awards 2019.
Work Experience. A week in the life of…
Lewis Ward came to Cloudy Group as part of his 6th form work experience. He worked along side our app development team
And the App-Prentice Challenge Winner Is…
Friday 28 June 2019 marked the final winners’ showdown for the App-Prentice Challenge 2019 as the winning school event teams from
Buckinghamshire University Technical College Show Their Creativity on the App-Prentice Challenge 2019
Key Stage 4 students at Buckinghamshire University Technical College
Mandeville School Students Shine in “Learning Today & Leading Tomorrow” on the App-Prentice Challenge 2019
Building on the success of the first App-Prentice Challenge of 2019, the event at The Mandeville
Aylesbury Vale Academy Kick Off the App-Prentice challenge 2019 in Spectacular Form
The first App-Prentice Challenge 2019 took place on Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th June at Aylesbury Vale Academy (AVA), setting a very high standard for the e ...
CLOUDYGROUP’S APP-PRENTICE CHALLENGE BOASTS AN EXCITING LINE-UP & FESTIVAL WINNERS’ SHOWDOWN
BUCKINGHAM – Buckingham’s Cloudy Group is proud to announce that the App-prentice Challenge will return this June in star-studded form as big TV names from BBC’ ...
SCHOOL CHILDREN UNVEIL THE CLEAN-UP APP THEY MADE FOR WOLVERTON & GREENLEYS TOWN COUNCIL
Students from The Mandeville School, accompanied by Director of CloudyGroup, David Hall, today proudly handed over the “Council Clean-Up” App they have built for Wolverton and Greenleys Town Council (WGTC).
The CloudyGroup “App-Prentice Challenge” team were honoured to have their App accepted by Town Mayor and WGTC Chairman, Councillor Adrian Moss, in an official handover ceremony at WGTC Town Hall.
Moving to Office 365 – a Council’s View
Cloudy Group are pleased to be working with Sally McLellan at Wolverton & Greenleys Town Council (WGTC) […]
Imagination in Business
The Cloudy Academy was born out of our belief in investing in the future of digital services and encouraging entrepreneurship. Having built up a fantastic network of partnerships with local councils and higher education bodies we are now able to provide young people with real-world work experience in the industry, apprenticeship opportunities and dedicated training to help them enhance their passion for digital solutions, IT, telecommunications and creative media.
Stoke Mandeville School in Aylesbury took part in the APPrentice Challenge last year and as part of the Cloudy Academy’s commitment to engage with the students further, the winning ten students were invited into our offices last week to meet our team – most of whom started out as apprentices themselves – and to continue building their winning ‘Exam Revision Aid’ App. They also visited Buckingham Universities computing department, meeting lecturers to deepen their understanding of the industry.
Cloudy Academy’s Local Enterprise Engagement Program Gets off to a Flying Start!
The Cloudy Academy was born out of our belief in investing in the future of digital services and encouraging entrepreneurship. Having built up a fantastic network of partnerships with local councils and higher education bodies we are now able to provide young people with real-world work experience in the industry, apprenticeship opportunities and dedicated training to help them enhance their passion for digital solutions, IT, telecommunications and creative media.
Stoke Mandeville School in Aylesbury took part in the APPrentice Challenge last year and as part of the Cloudy Academy’s commitment to engage with the students further, the winning ten students were invited into our offices last week to meet our team – most of whom started out as apprentices themselves – and to continue building their winning ‘Exam Revision Aid’ App. They also visited Buckingham Universities computing department, meeting lecturers to deepen their understanding of the industry.
Cloudy Group supporting the Milton Keynes Hospital Charity Cancer Centre Appeal
Our exercise obsessed Director David Hall has put his passion to good use this year. He’s pouring his energies in to raising money for a brilliant local charity – Milton Keynes Hospital Charity Cancer Centre Appeal – who are aiming to raise a huge 2.5 million pounds of the 15 million required to build a designated cancer centre at the hospital.
Council Modernisation Training Day
Cloudy Group are pleased to be working with Sally McLellan at Wolverton & Greenleys Town Council (WGTC), we recently migrated them to Microsoft Office 365 Cloud, please read our latest blog post from Sally regarding the councils experiences…
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
Cloudy Group is proud to be working closely with Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Association of Local Councils to help with the digital transformation of th ...
Moving to Office 365 – a Council’s View
Cloudy Group are pleased to be working with Sally McLellan at Wolverton & Greenleys Town Council (WGTC), we recently migrated them to Microsoft Office 365 Cloud, please read our latest blog post from Sally regarding the councils experiences…
Microsoft Enterprise Mobility and Security
Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security At Cloudy IT we are proud to offer Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), an all in a one identity mo ...
CLOUDY GROUP ARE ON THE ROAD… WELCOME TO SWYX PARTNER AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2018!
CLOUDY GROUP ARE WINNERS OF THE TOP UK PARTNER AWARD AT THE SWYX PARTNER AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2018! The Cloudy Group are on the road again at this year’s ...
MANDEVILLE SCHOOL YEAR 10s TAKE ON THE APP-PRENTICE CHALLENGE & DESIGN THEIR OWN APP FOR THE SCHOOL
MANDEVILLE SCHOOL YEAR 10s TAKE ON THE APP-PRENTICE CHALLENGE & DESIGN THEIR OWN APP FOR THE SCHOOL! In under three days, Mandeville School's Year 10 studen ...
2018’S APP-PRENTICE CHALLENGE OUT TO PUT YOUNG MINDS TO THE TEST WITH TECH
2018’S APP-PRENTICE CHALLENGE OUT TO PUT YOUNG MINDS TO THE TEST WITH TECHBUCKINGHAM – Buckingham’s own Cloudy Group is very happy to announ ...
Cloudy Group – Building Tomorrow’s Cybersecurity Today
Cloudy Group attend Infosecurity Europe, Europe’s biggest IT security exhibition Cloudy Group Director, David and our newest engineer, Charlie both a ...
Creating coders of the future with Cloudy Academy
This morning saw the first Coders Club, part of Cloudy Academy which was held at Bourton Meadow School in Buckingham. This amazing workshop lasted 2 ho ...
Bringing modern ways of working to you
As a company, we are continually looking for opportunities to bring new technologies and smarter ways of working to our clients. Just last week Director David H ...
Accountex – Here We Come!
With just two weeks to go until Accountex2018 – the UK’s biggest conference for the financial sector – CloudyGroup are gearing up for two fantastic days on the ...
We Made It!!
We are ecstatic to announce that Cloudy Group is a finalist in the 2018 Buckinghamshire Business First Awards in the Apprentice and Young Person Employer of the ...
Buckingham Swimathon 2018
We are really proud to work with different charities and local community organisations such as YC². YC² works hard to provide services that improve the qua ...
Viprinet Technical Partner Training
Managing Director David Hall and Operations Director Neal Pallet, spent two days this February Visiting the headquarters of Viprinet. Cloudy Group is proud tech ...
Microsoft Tech Summit 2018
This January our director David attended the 2018 Microsoft Tech Summit held at the NEC, Birmingham. This was a technical learning event for IT professionals an ...
Upgrading our systems and servers for better efficiency and consolidation
David, Neal, Martyn, and Denis spent the whole day doubling the capacity of our cloud, upgrading key equipment, wading through miles of cables to ensure that we ...
And the winner is…
We definitely roll with the winners here at Cloudy Group. Our Cloudy Comms team work with VoIP giant Swyx, who are based in Germany and we'd like to share with ...
