100% Digital Leeds are leading a project to tackle digital exclusion for prisons, prisoners and prison-leavers in Leeds. Having digital skills, connectivity, confidence, and motivation means prison leavers are better able to success in the areas of their lives that make people less likely to reoffend: Finding secure housing Managing finances and accessing benefits EngagingContinue reading “Reducing reoffending through digital inclusion”
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Community Calling Case Study
O2 and Hubbub launched the Community Calling campaign in Leeds in January 2021. The campaign gifts smartphones with free data, calls and texts to digitally excluded people. 100% Digital Leeds worked closely with Hubbub to coordinate the distribution of phones through our networks of community partners across the city. As well as working collaboratively withContinue reading “Community Calling Case Study”
Creative digital storytelling workshops with LEEDS2023
A series of creative digital storytelling workshops 100% Digital Leeds are pleased to be partnering with LEEDS 2023 to offer a series of free workshops to partners, making creative digital skills and software more accessible to Leeds communities, an idea born via the Arts and Culture Digital Inclusion Network. The workshops are free, assume noContinue reading “Creative digital storytelling workshops with LEEDS2023”
LGA Pathfinder Workshop Two
Leeds is one of nine councils awarded funding as part of the Local Government Association (LGA) Digital Pathfinders Programme, designed to support councils seeking to innovate and develop pioneering initiatives to advance digital inclusion, digital connectivity, and cyber security. 100% Digital Leeds have been funded to develop a Community-based Model to Increase Digital Inclusion andContinue reading “LGA Pathfinder Workshop Two”
Digital arts participation project for Arts in Care Homes Day
100% Digital Leeds and partners are pulling together a programme of creative digital opportunities for care providers as part of Arts in Care Homes Day (24th September). This project brings together 100% Digital Leeds’s Arts and Culture Digital Inclusion Network and work with care homes. The programme will support: care providers to offer remote accessContinue reading “Digital arts participation project for Arts in Care Homes Day”
LGA Pathfinder Workshop One
Leeds is one of nine councils awarded funding as part of the Local Government Association (LGA) Digital Pathfinders Programme, designed to support councils seeking to innovate and develop pioneering initiatives to advance digital inclusion, digital connectivity, and cyber security. 100% Digital Leeds have been funded to develop a Community-based Model to Increase Digital Inclusion and runContinue reading “LGA Pathfinder Workshop One”
Free creative digital storytelling workshops
LEEDS 2023 are excited to be working on a series of free workshops in partnership with 100% Digital Leeds that aim to make creative software training more accessible to Leeds communities. Each workshop will give you new ways to share your own stories and the stories of the people you work with using free andContinue reading “Free creative digital storytelling workshops”
Digital inclusion and food poverty
“I’ve sent people to the library to access a computer because if they’re looking for jobs, I mean… everything’s online, they don’t accept written applications, it’s got to be online.” Volunteer, St. Cross Church Food Bank in Middleton People experiencing food poverty are likely to also be experiencing digital poverty. Organisations supporting people experiencing foodContinue reading “Digital inclusion and food poverty”
Digital Health Hub Launches in South Leeds
Community organisations in south Leeds have been working with 100% Digital Leeds and Beeston and Middleton Local Care Partnership to develop a local network of Digital Health Hubs, places in the community where people can go to get support to get online and make the most of the internet to improve their health and wellbeing.Continue reading “Digital Health Hub Launches in South Leeds”
Embedding Digital Inclusion: Leep1
Online activities with Leep1 Get online week is over for this year, but we’re going to carry on our theme of embedding digital inclusion by sharing a selection of case studies throughout the week which showcase some of the excellent ways our partners have integrated digital aspects into non-digital activities. Mandy Haigh, project and developmentContinue reading “Embedding Digital Inclusion: Leep1”