About Us

Company Background

Avec Online is the internet consultancy, web development and hosting division of Avec Solutions, a not-for-profit social economy business founded in 1998 and specialising in providing high quality consultancy and support services.

Based in Avalon House, a community business centre in Belfast, Avec serves a wide and growing client list, mainly in the not-for-profit and social economy sectors, but also including many small businesses and professional firms.

As a leading player in the social economy, any profit generated by Avec through trading is either reinvested into the company to ensure the continued delivery of a high quality service, or is redistributed through charitable bodies for the benefit of the whole community.

Management

Avec Online is managed by Geoffrey Ready, Managing Consultant with Avec for more than 10 years. Geoffrey has extensive IT and internet consultancy, web design and training experience, with particular expertise in open source content management systems and CSS-based design, and has himself developed more than 150 open source CMS-based websites built on the Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress platforms. Apart from his technical expertise, his strength is in working closely with a client organisation to ensure the website fulfils its strategic goals.

Geoffrey is co-author of social economy book Making Good Money in Belfast and a widely sought-after speaker on a range of subjects relating to the use of IT, open source software and internet technology in the not-for-profit sector.