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Do you have good practice experience of working with people with low literacy and numeracy skills who need support with their digital skills? Some recent research I’ve done in this area has highlighted that there is very little published about how lack of literacy and numeracy skills impacts on the Read more…
Join us this November to learn more about the embedded model of working with Digital Champions, how we can sustain projects and best support digital skills. Since 2015 One Digital have promoted increased understanding of the different types of Digital Champion models. The One Digital project partners have developed their understanding of the positive advantages and Read more…
A visit to Linstone Housing based in Renfrewshire in Scotland gave insight into how Digital Champions can be fully embedded into an organisation, providing support to colleagues as well as customers. Linstone has a great reputation for working locally in the community, listening to and understanding local needs and finding Read more…
One Digital partners recognise the value of working in partnership to reach out to more learners. It is a strong theme running through much of our work and, particularly for Citizens Online, it is essential to supporting digital inclusion in a local area. How this works in practice I was Read more…
We want to work with projects across the UK to discuss how we can better support digital learners to stay safe online and maintain their privacy. We would like to improve good practice in this area and better understand how people providing digital skills support can be more confident. We Read more…
All of our One Digital projects are passionate about digital inclusion and supporting our Digital Champions to improve the Essential Digital Skills of the communities we work with. The Torus Foundation is doing this by partnering with Everton Development Trust to recruit and train volunteer Digital Champions to work across Read more…
The Lido Centre, based in the heart of the West Ealing community in London assists local residents with a wide range of things, for example, setting up Tenants’ Associations; applying for funding to support community projects; summer activities; and providing information and access to local services. Love London Working (LLW), Read more…
My role at One Digital is to facilitate learning, and I’m really interested in how we can best support those who are more disadvantaged and lack digital skills to get online, and then to continue to learn. As I visit projects and listen to partners, one of the questions I’m Read more…
Clarion Futures (part of Clarion Housing Group) are one of our One Digital programme partners. They are funding and building partnerships with 15 other organisations who are developing and embedding effective Digital Champion models of support. Their second Project Progress Report follows the first report published in March this year. Read more…
Integrating digital skills support into work to develop language skills and support employment for refugees is at the heart of the work of Action West London. What’s exciting about the project is their approach to embedding digital inclusion across their activity. They have Digital Champions with a range of language Read more…