Hello <<First Name>>

Our Digital Evolution conference is just two weeks away! I’m really looking forward to meeting many of our Online Centres, national funders, partners and other organisations involved in digital and social inclusion on Thursday 28 November at the BT Centre in London. I’ll be chairing the event and talking all things digital and how it can make you happier, healthier and better off. We’ve also got a great lineup of speakers, including:

Kerensa Jennings - Digital Skills Director for BT Group
Liza Belozerova - Google
Magid Magid - Green MEP for Yorkshire and Humber
Peter Estlin - Lord Mayor of London

We've also got a range of workshops that you'll be able to attend on the day:

Building a learner journey
Working with learners to design services for them
Online safety for families
Offering accessible services

These workshops are designed to provide information on a topic of interest, so you can take away knowledge and insight to apply within your organisation.

Best wishes
Helen Milner OBE
Chief Executive
Good Things Foundation

Book your place today

Book your place today

JOINING FORCES EVENT

There’s less than a week to go until our Joining Forces event in Bristol! We’re looking forward to meeting community service organisations and membership networks at Trinity Community Arts Centre on Wednesday 20 November between 11am and 2pm.

Confirmed attendees include Locality, WECIL (The Centre of West England for Inclusive Living), Citizens Advice Bristol, Voscur, North Somerset Training, Groundwork South, Learn With Unite, Computer Recyclers and Can do Bristol.

If you want to find out more about local and national membership networks, Book your place today.

Reboot Report

Read our new report, Connecting with Digital - an evaluation of our Community Connectors programme, run as part of the Reboot UK programme.

Reboot UK helps people experiencing homelessness, or mental health issues, to improve their digital skills and in turn their mental health and wellbeing. Community Connectors have been a key part of the programme - they are beneficiaries with lived experience of the issues faced by others, or people who are committed to co-production with people with lived experience. They in turn went on to recruit Digital Champions.

Through the programme we:

Created 15 Community Connector roles
Trained 259 Digital Champions
Trained 2,507 people

Read the full report

COMMUNITIES PREPARED TRAINING & RESOURCE HUB

Communities Prepared has recently launched an online resilience hub, run by Groundwork South. The hub offers a wide variety of resources and interactive tools designed to help and empower community emergency volunteer groups across the country. Training modules and resources are provided, as well as interactive features which include an online members forum and a map of community resilience activity nationwide.

Find out more

RELIABLE AND AFFORDABLE SECURITY SOFTWARE

Charity Digital has recently launched its latest edition of cybersecurity software, offering protection for digital networks and associated devices. Over 400 million users worldwide use the software and online centres can subscribe to CloudCare Antivirus protection for £6 plus VAT per month. To see what types of packages are available and to find out more information visit the website.

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