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The Festival of Learning (formerly known as Adult Learners’ Week) is the biggest celebration of lifelong learning in the country. It aims to highlight all of the benefits of adult learning and how it has changed the lives of so many.

As you’ll all know, our online learning platform, Learn My Way, is designed to help people to gain basic digital skills, so that they are not left behind. But we couldn't reach those people without you, your staff and your volunteers, driving that mission forward by supporting your adult learners to get online and use Learn My Way.

Get Online Week is a great example - we've shared stories of learners from our Online Centres who you've helped take a step towards changing lives through digital by trying '1 new thing'. You can read them here.

Nominating someone at your centre is a great way to celebrate the work that you do and the difference you make. You can nominate learners, tutors, employers and projects that you think deserve the recognition.

To find out more and to read nomination guidance, visit the Festival of Learning website.

Best wishes
Helen Milner OBE
Chief Executive
Good Things Foundation

How you can prepare for Safer Internet Day

You may have seen by now that we're getting behind this year's Safer Internet Day campaign on Tuesday 5 February. We're spreading the word that the online world isn't so scary and encouraging safe and sensible use of the internet - and we'd love for you to get involved too.

We know that internet safety is an important issue for many people who visit Online Centres, so why not use the day to share messages around online safety and to hold sessions which help learners to stay safe online?

As a little incentive for you, we're holding a Safer Internet Day competition. For your chance to win a £50 Amazon gift card, all you have to do is encourage your learners to complete the Online Safety courses on Learn My Way and the Online Centre with the most completions on Safer Internet Day itself will win.

Let us know if you're taking part on social media using @Online_Centres and #SaferInternetDay2019.

Find out more

HANDY GUIDE TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND PRIVACY

It is important that your learners feel confident and well informed about how their data is being collected and used. Privacy and GDPR are really important but often can be difficult to understand. This handy guide created by Carnegie UK Trust breaks down everything you need to know into simple and easy to follow sections. Even though this guide is specific to people who work in public libraries, it provides practical ideas you can use to make your organisation more privacy focused.

To find out more and to read this free guide, visit the Carnegie Trust website.

Learn My Way competition winner

We know that lots of Online Centres have embedded Learn My Way into sessions without any funding and we want to recognise that. During the month of November, we ran a Learn My Way prize draw for all centres who are not currently grant funded by us.

We’re pleased to announce the lucky winner is - Best Training (Lincs) Ltd based in Scunthorpe. We’ll be sending them an iPad to use at their centre.

STAY IN-THE-KNOW WITH THE GOOD THINGS FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER

Enjoy our Members' Newsletter? Why not sign-up for Good Things Foundation news too to keep up-to-date with all the latest happenings at our head office?

Or if the latest digital and social inclusion news is more your thing, make sure to join our weekly newsletter The Digest and have the latest sent straight to your inbox every Friday!

Supporting digitally excluded clients with Universal Credit

In this brand new webinar taking place Thursday 24 January, 11am - 12pm, Online Centre Golden Opportunity Skills and Development (GOSAD) will look at the challenges of applying and managing Universal Credit requirements for those that are digitally excluded. In this webinar, they will share the work they do to help digitally excluded claimants. For example, supporting a client who was almost made homeless because she could not maintain her UC online requirements and due to sanctions her claim was entirely stopped.

HELP SHAPE OUR 2019 TRAINING PROGRAMME

Many of you have fed back that you found last years training webinars really useful. We hope that this year's programme is just as good. Help us to shape the training we offer by taking part in our short survey to make sure our future training is as relevant as possible for you.

Complete the survey for the chance to win a £25 Amazon gift voucher.

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