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”
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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”
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”
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”
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)”
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)”