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AI and Marketing for the Voluntary and Community Sector with Andy Hill

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23/10/2025

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AI and Marketing for the Voluntary and Community Sector with Andy Hill

This session is a hands-on workshop designed to help non-profit organisations use AI technology, even if you have no IT experience. We’ll show you how AI can improve your marketing efforts, explain the basics of AI, and demonstrate useful tools like chatbots and email automation. You’ll see real examples of how AI works in marketing and get to try out these tools yourself. We’ll also cover how to create an AI-powered marketing plan and discuss important ethical issues. By the end of the workshop, you’ll have practical skills and knowledge to make your organisation’s marketing more effective using AI.

Key Learning Objectives:

  1. Understand AI Basics to Simplify Your Marketing Efforts and Increase Effectiveness
  2. Explore AI Tools and Techniques to Boost Engagement, Analyse Results and Save Time
  3. See Real-World Examples to Inspire and Guide Your AI Journey
  4. Participate in Practical Applications to Gain Hands-On Experience
  5. Engage on Group Activities to Generate Ideas on AI Solutions Specific to your Organisation
  6. Outline a basic AI Marketing Strategy for your Organisation
  7. Learn Ethical Considerations to Use AI Safely and Responsibly

Who is it for?

CEO, Senior Leaders

Date: 23/10/2025

Time: 11:30AM - 2:30PM

Venue: CO3 Office, Belfast

Member Price: 149

Non-member Price: 249

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This session will be facilitated by…

Andy Hill

Andy has over 15 years marketing experience and has worked with many global brands. He has an extensive knowledge of everything social media, branding, advertising and marketing. In March 2009 Andy setup his own advertising and marketing agency – More Design, based in Bangor. During this time he managed to win contracts with companies such as NatWest Bank, Three Mobile, UNICEF and Liverpool Football Club. After selling his share in More Design Andy consulted for a number of companies in the software industry before setting up Dokoo Digital, a full service digital marketing agency based in Holywood, Northern Ireland. Dokoo helps businesses build their brands online and offline. In November 2013 Andy was co-opted onto the board of The Chartered Institute of Marketing for Ireland. Alongside his board position at the CIM Andy also works for business in the community as a mentor to many businesses seeking marketing and commercial support. Andy also is a co-founder of The Digital Exchange, a networking group for marketing students and marketing professionals that meets monthly.

What Members Say About CO3

We’re delighted to get behind the financial resilience programme who, which will support a range of charity leaders from the small right through to the large, will really help give them the skills to be strong and be there for their communities for as long as they’re needed.

As a chief executive it is a very lonely job at times, particularly in small charities and Northern Ireland has got many small charities. So when you feel that loneliness or isolation, the one thing that CO3 brought was the ability to go and chat to somebody, whether it be a mentor or whether it be just another chief exec to bounce off.

Kate Fleck
Member of the Board, OCN NI

CO3 offer a wide range of courses for middle, middle managers, senior managers and chief executives within the third sector. Some of the programmes include the Leading Edge programme, there’s other leadership programmes available and then they also offer some micro learning sessions around how to present things like finances to your board of directors, reviewing your governance structure within the organisation and they would bring in some expert facilitators to deliver those sessions as well.

Martin Flynn
CEO, OCN NI

We’re delighted to get behind the financial resilience programme who, which will support a range of charity leaders from the small right through to the large, will really help give them the skills to be strong and be there for their communities for as long as they’re needed.

As a chief executive it is a very lonely job at times, particularly in small charities and Northern Ireland has got many small charities. So when you feel that loneliness or isolation, the one thing that Co Three brought was the ability to go and chat to somebody, whether it be a mentor or whether it be just another chief exec to bounce off.

Kate Fleck
Member of the Board, OCN NI

“CO3 is always a great network for support, for encouragement, for advice, answers to tricky questions when you're really, really stuck. Overall, it's been a fantastic network of colleagues who are always there for guidance and encouragement whenever things are really tough.”

Karen Collins
Chief Executive, Aware NI

“It is so valuable having other people who are in a similar position that you can network with, you can share problems with, you can ask advice. And so my whole career, CO3 has been really, really important to me in providing those things.”

Roger Courtney
Founder & Director, Roger Courtney Consulting

“I think for me the CO3 is a safe space just to have a chat, to make connections and also to learn from other people who are in a similar position in their career as you are.”

Lisa Keys
Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Boys’ Brigade

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