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By marcusjwilsonFiled under

In this Meetup, Mads Mitchell of Pooka & Co will discuss how you can set up CiviCRM to handle day-to-day UK GDPR requirements - from recording consent to double opt-ins... and why using CiviCRM's GDPR extension might not be the best approach.

For new users, we'll give a short introduction to CiviMail - showing you what is possible "out of the box" in CiviCRM for bulk mailings, transactional email and Scheduled Reminders.

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By dev-team Filed under Release announcements

Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.12.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release that includes new features and bug fixes. Details are available in the monthly release notes.

Your are encouraged to upgrade now for the most stable, secure CiviCRM experience:

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By jamienovickFiled under
CiviCRM Needs Your Voice: UK Charity CRM Survey 2026 CiviCRM Needs Your Voice!

Every year, Fundraising Magazine—the UK’s only printed magazine for professional charity fundraisers—conducts a major survey to rank the best charity CRMs.

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By jaapjansmaFiled under

An increasing number of our customer organisations need an option to involve their constituents when providing services to them or asking constitutents to contribute or support them. For that purpose, we have been building portals and over the recent year have also included the file storage options that Nextcloud provides. One of our clients also considers adding Moodle to the set of applications to involve their supporters.

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By joshFiled under

CiviCRM is growing and improving rapidly, ensuring that organizations around the world have access, more than ever, to an amazing open source CRM and that they have full control over their systems and data.

In fact, on February 1st, 2026, the number of known installations of CiviCRM hit 14,349, the highest in the history of the project!

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By dev-team Filed under Release announcements

Thanks to the hard work of CiviCRM’s incredible community of contributors, CiviCRM version 6.11.0 is now ready to download. This is a regular monthly release that includes new features and bug fixes. Details are available in the monthly release notes.

Your are encouraged to upgrade now for the most stable, secure CiviCRM experience:

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By Detlev Filed under Community
Would you like to help shape decision-making in the CiviCRM community and bring forward the issues that matter to you? Consider running for the CiviCRM Community Council.
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By alarmingcodFiled under
(re)Introducing Manchester Meetups

After a few years without regular CiviCRM Meetups in Manchester, we're looking to bring back a regular in-person networking and information-sharing sessions for CiviCRM users.

Meetups are open to anyone using CiviCRM in any capacity: regular users, developers and people who are exploring CRM options for their organisation, Come along, ask your questions and feel free to share your expertise.

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By SYSTOPIA Filed under Extensions
The Entity Construction Kit (ECK) is a non-code solution to creating custom entities in CiviCRM. After an impressive development journey, we are happy to announce that the beta version of the extension just dropped!
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By josh Filed under Sustainability

In lieu of publishing an annual report this year, we're kicking off a monthly snapshot that provides an overview of 1) ecosystem growth and 2) project sustainability, along with a few extra tidbits.

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