From the end of April 2025 Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust patients will have access to the Trust’s new digital offer, including having the option to receive letters digitally. Patients who access their letters digitally will be able to change the letter’s language, background colour, and font size to best suit their needs. Patients who wouldContinue reading “Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust launches new digital offer for patients”
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Digital Volunteering Matchmaking Event 2025
Leeds Digital Volunteering Partnership is hosting an in-person networking event with the aim of fostering collaboration between Leeds’s charity and tech sectors, increasing the city’s capacity to support digital inclusion. To understand more about how tech companies and community organisations can partner to support the digital inclusion of people and communities in Leeds read ourContinue reading “Digital Volunteering Matchmaking Event 2025”
Partner profile: Southlands Retirement Apartments
100% Digital Leeds has supported residents of Westward Care’s Southlands Retirement Apartments to partner with Leeds Older People’s Forum and Leeds tech company Axiologik, to improve residents’ digital skills and confidence. Southlands Retirement Apartments is a collection of retirement apartments situated in Roundhay in the north of Leeds. These self-contained apartments allow older people toContinue reading “Partner profile: Southlands Retirement Apartments “
Partner profile: Leeds Community Health and Wellbeing Service
100% Digital Leeds is supporting homecare providers Be Caring and Springfield Healthcare to embed digital inclusion into their offer as part of the new Leeds Community Health and Wellbeing Service. The 18 month pilot service aims to support over 200 clients across West Leeds in their own homes, providing a person centred approach to careContinue reading “Partner profile: Leeds Community Health and Wellbeing Service”
Empowerment Through Technology: Donate your digital equipment for good
For this year’s Leeds Digital Festival, 100% Digital Leeds hosted a webinar ‘Empowerment Through Technology: Donate your digital equipment for good’, in partnership with Solidaritech. The webinar was developed by Leeds Digital Volunteering Partnership, as part of 100% Digital Leeds’s Tech sector support key initiative. When we’re working with migrants, we see that these peopleContinue reading “Empowerment Through Technology: Donate your digital equipment for good”
Partner profile: People Matters
People Matters supports people with learning disabilities and other hidden disabilities to reach their full potential. They offer individual support to their members citywide, at home, and in community settings. They also facilitate wellbeing groups and run a variety of activities to help their members towards employment. People Matters prides itself on being a memberContinue reading “Partner profile: People Matters”
Arts in Care Digital Programme 2024
The National Day of Arts in Care Homes is an annual event championing, promoting, and encouraging arts engagement in care settings and highlighting the health and wellbeing benefits for all involved. In celebration of the National Day of Arts in Care Homes 2024, 100% Digital Leeds has developed an engaging programme of creative workshops openContinue reading “Arts in Care Digital Programme 2024”
Partner Profile: Trust Leeds
Trust Leeds is a Leeds-based charity which follows the Self-Reliant Group (SRG) model. Community SRGs build confidence, skills, and emotional wellbeing, and allow people to develop their own small savings to build financial independence. Be Your Own Boss SRGs support unemployed and under-employed people to become self-employed by developing their business plan alongside a cohortContinue reading “Partner Profile: Trust Leeds”
100% Digital Leeds at Leeds Digital Festival 2024
Leeds Digital Festival returns 16 to 27 September 2024 for a two-week celebration of digital culture in all its forms. This year, 100% Digital Leeds is pleased to be hosting three events as part of the programme, highlighting some of our current workstreams. Be Online and Stay Safe: Media Literacy with Older People Tuesday 17Continue reading “100% Digital Leeds at Leeds Digital Festival 2024”
Arts in Care Digital Programme 2024
The 100% Digital Leeds Arts in Care Digital Programme is back for a third year and the team is looking for arts and cultural organisations to contribute an activity. The 2024 Arts in Care Digital Programme will take place from Monday 23 to Friday 27 September. Care setting across the city will be invited toContinue reading “Arts in Care Digital Programme 2024”