IT Provider of Choice
for the Third Sector

We would like to inform you of the working hours of Avec Solutions over the Christmas and New Year holiday period.

We will be closed 24th, 25th and 28th December 2009 and 1st January 2010.

With many of our clients closed from Christmas Eve until 4th January, we will have a reduced staff team available on the 29th, 30th and 31st December with the customer care system monitored and an engineer available.

Please use the normal forms of contact should you wish to request assistance throughout this period.

Avec Solutions is committed to providing practical services which allow you to get on with the real work of meeting your clients' needs. Hence our launch of Avec photography.

Nigel Hunter comes to us with recent experience as a professional photographer prior to which he spent many years in the voluntary sector, a combination which we believe makes him an excellent choice to take on photographic assignments for your organisation or business.

Avec can now offer a comprehensive range of photographic services, including event coverage, press photography, product and staff photography, all of which you might need for websites, brochures and other publications.

In addition we can provide the following photography related services: photographic preparation and restoration, digital scanning of film and slides, video production for web, and a wide range of photography training for your staff.

To check out what Avec photography can offer see www.avecphotography.com, contact Nigel Hunter directly on 07540 627539 or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

As Avec Solutions now provides IT support coverage throughout Northern Ireland and beyond we have decided to have an engineer based in the northwest of the province. Simon Boydell, who has joined our IT support team following many years of providing IT network support in the private sector, will be based in our new facilty in the offices of Cúnamh ICT, our partner business in Derry.

This will greatly enhance our level of service and response times to our growing list of clients based in the northwest. However, as we are now operating a quality assured centralised customer care system, all support issues should continue to be raised through our main contact number 028 9045 9000 or by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

IT Base Camp is an exciting new service being delivered by Avec Solutions, with support from the Lloyds TSB Foundation. Initially aimed at our existing clients, the purpose is to train up staff in organisations so that they can take on much of the ongoing maintenance of their own IT systems and make better use of the professional support available from Avec.

We had originally hoped to have this course start in the autumn but have now pushed it back to a start date in January. In addition to hands-on training led by Avec IT engineers, the course will also operate with peer and online support throughout the year.

For more information, see our IT Base Camp page.

In what is thought to be Northern Ireland's first social economy sector merger, Avec Solutions and Computer Connections have joined forces to become the leading provider of IT support and web development services to the third sector.

With a team of six full-time engineers and six associate engineers to call upon, the new company, operating under the Avec Solutions banner, is now providing support and services to almost 200 clients throughout Northern Ireland.

Former Computer Connections manager, Robin Montgomery, is heading up the new IT support team, while Geoffrey Ready will manage Avec's rapidly expanding website development and internet hosting division, services which extend the company's reach well beyond a Northern Ireland client base. Overall leadership continues to be provided by chief executive Maurice Kinkead, who is also taking direct control of quality management in the growing business.

Speaking after the merger was announced, Alan Thomson, chief executive of Avec's longstanding client the Orchardville Society said: “This is great news. We have been very happy with the quality of service provided by Avec over the past ten years but as our own IT needs continue to develop we can now rely on an even greater range of skills and expertise at our disposal.”

Also welcoming the news was Peter MacCafferty, Managing Director of Cúnamh ICT in Derry, a 'partner company' with Avec. “I have worked with both Avec Solutions and Computer Connections in recent years,” said Peter, “and as we are selling our software products across the UK, with client and technical support provided by Avec Solutions, I am glad to have an even stronger team to rely on.”

The newly combined team will operate from Avec Solutions’ existing base in Avalon House in Belfast and can be contacted on 028 9045 9000, by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or through this website.