To celebrate Get Online Week 2025, Good Things Foundation’s annual digital inclusion campaign, 100% Digital Leeds and NHS England worked in partnership to increase support for people in Leeds to use the NHS app. The Get Online Week campaign focuses on helping people discover the benefits of being online and building their confidence in usingContinue reading “NHS app support for Get Online Week 2025”
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Partner Profile: INCLUDE+
The Inclusive Digital Economy Network (INCLUDE+) is a five-year project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The network is building a knowledge community comprising industry, academia, the public and third sectors focusing on inequalities in digital society. They commission specific research projects to explore how social and digital environments can be built, shaped,Continue reading “Partner Profile: INCLUDE+”
Partner profile: Holbeck Together
Holbeck Together is a charity based in Holbeck, providing services to the local community, supporting people to stay socially and physically active, empowering them to make more informed choices and live longer. Holbeck Together became a Neighbourhood Network in 1992 supporting predominantly older people in Holbeck. Over the past four years they have expanded their offerContinue reading “Partner profile: Holbeck Together”
Partner Profile: Leeds Caring Hands
Leeds Caring Hands is a charity based in North Leeds Medical Practice that supports their local community of Moortown and Moor Allerton with opportunities to socialise, play games and stay active. The group identified a need for digital support when many patients were unable to use digital health tools to engage with the practice. ItContinue reading “Partner Profile: Leeds Caring Hands”
Partner profile: Out Together
Out Together is a charity supporting the LGBTQ+ community across Yorkshire. Throughout 2024 the organisation worked with 100% Digital Leeds to embed digital inclusion into their existing offer, positioning digital as an enabler to combat loneliness and isolation for their older lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer members. Their digital support offer was co-designed withContinue reading “Partner profile: Out Together”
Leeds Databank User Group
The Leeds Databank User Group brings together organisations gifting free data SIM cards via Good Things Foundation’s National Databank. The group is hosted by 100% Digital Leeds in partnership with Good Things Foundation. The group meets quarterly, with the aim of working together to identify any operational challenges, solutions, and successes relating to SIM gifting.Continue reading “Leeds Databank User Group”
Partner profile: Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust
100% Digital Leeds has partnered with Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH) since 2020. The partnership began with 100% Digital Leeds working with individual LCH services to support the implementation of specific digital health tools, or to embed digital inclusion within discrete projects. This includes supporting patient uptake of digital tools to support the self-managementContinue reading “Partner profile: Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust”
eVisas
UK Visas and Immigration are developing a digital immigration system known as an eVisa. This means that the government are replacing physical Biometric Residency Permit documents with an online record of immigration status. The documents being replaced are: An eVisa will be needed to access a range of public services, such as funding for childcare,Continue reading “eVisas”
Older People’s Digital Inclusion Network Meeting – July 2024
The Older People’s Digital Inclusion Network is a partnership between 100% Digital Leeds and Leeds Older People’s Forum. The Network brings together organisations across the city who support older people with digital inclusion, building new partnerships and sharing learning and resources. In July the first Older People’s Digital Inclusion Network meeting of 2024 was heldContinue reading “Older People’s Digital Inclusion Network Meeting – July 2024”
UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)
UKSPF replaced EU Structural and Investment Funds in the UK, and £9,393,538 was allocated to Leeds specifically for local delivery. 100% Digital Leeds was allocated funding to increase the capacity of community organisations to increase digital inclusion. The funding had a specific focus on interventions and activities that build people’s confidence to use digital toolsContinue reading “UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)”