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: 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 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”
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”
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”