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”
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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”
Partner profile: Pyramid
Pyramid is an inclusive arts collective working with people with learning disabilities and autistic people in Leeds. Pyramid also plays a lead role in driving digital inclusion for people with learning disabilities and autistic people. Since 2021, Pyramid has hosted an Autism and Learning Disability Digital Inclusion Coordinator who works with organisations supporting people with learningContinue reading “Partner profile: Pyramid”
Be Online Stay Safe (BOSS)
The Be Online and Stay Safe (BOSS) project was a partnership between Leeds Older People’s Forum and 100% Digital Leeds, delivered between March and December 2023. BOSS was developed to address the challenges faced by older people in diverse communities to staying safe online, aligning with the goals outlined in the DCMS Online Media Literacy Strategy.Continue reading “Be Online Stay Safe (BOSS)”
Your Back Yard care homes project
Your Back Yard is a Leeds based social enterprise who work with local communities to support healthy lifestyles. Over the last nine months the organisation has delivered digital skills sessions across six care homes in Leeds. When working with care settings 100% Digital Leeds identified a gap in digital skills support provision. The team partneredContinue reading “Your Back Yard care homes project”
Arts in Care Digital Programme 2024 information webinar
The Arts in Care Digital Programme 2024 is back for a third year. 100% Digital Leeds is curating a programme of digital activities in response to the National Day of Arts in Care Homes, and with a focus around digital inclusion. The team is looking for organisations to contribute to a week of activities includingContinue reading “Arts in Care Digital Programme 2024 information webinar”
Digital inclusion research project with Leeds Beckett University
Over the last 12 months, 100% Digital Leeds has worked with the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett University on a research project funded by the British Academy.
The aim of the research was to understand how two city-wide programmes led by local authorities – 100% Digital Leeds and #CovConnects – contribute towards addressing digital inequality at a city-wide level, and how this impact can be measured.
Partner profile: Cross Gates and District Good Neighbours Scheme
Cross Gates and District Good Neighbours Scheme is one of 100% Digital Leeds’s most long running partnerships, supporting digital inclusion since 2018. Their offer is constantly changing as they adapt to meet the needs of people in East Leeds. Lately Cross Gates and District Good Neighbours has adapted their digital inclusion offer to support serviceContinue reading “Partner profile: Cross Gates and District Good Neighbours Scheme”