Vote for Pyramid!
Shortlisted in the Digital Inclusion category of the Digital Culture Awards
Pyramid have been shortlisted on behalf of ALaDDIN in the Digital Inclusion category of Arts Council England’s Digital Culture Awards, for their work with 100% Digital Leeds co-facilitating ALaDDIN.
It’s a popular vote category so they need your support to win!
It takes two minutes to vote for Pyramid in this category and will draw attention to the great work of Leeds organisations like them – just click the 'Vote' button and verify your email address.
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Events and training
100% Digital Leeds host regular events bringing together organisations locally and nationally who want to do more to support the digital inclusion of their communities. Upcoming events and videos of previous events can be found on the 100% Digital Leeds website
Skills for Supporting Digital Inclusion
Wednesday 26th January – Thursday 17th March 2022
After our successful 6 week digital inclusion course with Barclays Digital Eagles we are returning in the new year with a new course!
This free eight week course will benefit anyone wanting to develop their digital skills and confidence so they can better engage and support others with digital.
Attend this fun and informal course delivered by Barclays Digital Eagles to find about the best digital apps, tools, and resources you can use to motivate even the most reluctant person to engage with digital. You'll leave confident and ready to support people with low digital skills and confidence, reducing potential fears about engaging with the online world and making it enjoyable and fun!
Tickets are limited so book now!
LAHWN and 100% Digital Leeds - Call out for remote arts activities Winter 2021/2
Following the success of webinars that we partnered on with arts organisations earlier this year we are looking to start 2022 with an update looking at how people in Leeds can engage in creativity and culture online. We would love to hear from anyone offering ways to remotely engage in:
- Visual arts and crafts
- Dance, music and performing arts
- Literature and culture such as poetry, films, exhibitions
Prior to the pandemic, there was limited evidence of the benefits of engaging in arts and culture online but if you have anything to share about the impact your work has made we would love to feature your work in our webinar and accompanying resources!
Get in touch at g.montgomerie@leeds.ac.uk and amy.hearn@leeds.gov.uk
Free webinar: Online arts and culture for health & wellbeing
Thursday 20th January 2022, 2-3pm – via Zoom
Join 100% Digital Leeds and Leeds Arts Health & Wellbeing Network to find out about engaging and accessible tools, events, and opportunities for people to engage with arts, culture, and creativity digitally during winter and spring 2022.
Ideal for anyone working with people and communities more likely to be isolated, at risk of experiencing poor mental health, or unable to access face-to-face arts, culture, and creativity.
Book online now
Arts and Culture Digital Inclusion Network – January relaunch
Thursday 27th January, 10am-12.30pm, Open Source Arts/Zoom
Come along to our January network meeting at Open Source Arts to kick off the new year! We want to showcase the difference the network can make, fostering collaboration and partnerships, sparking new ideas with digital, and sharing practical skills.
Co-facilitated with Leeds City Council’s Culture Programmes team, the Arts and Culture Digital Inclusion Network brings together Leeds arts organisations and artists interested in supporting the digital inclusion of their audiences, making their digital offer more inclusive, and using creative digital to engage new audiences.
Book online now
Opportunity to reach communities in South Leeds by partnering with Digital Health Hubs for Jan Launch events
Key community organisations in South Leeds such as Hamara, BITMO, Middleton Elderly Aid and Holbeck Together are hosting a series of launch events in January to showcase their Digital Health Hub offer. There is an opportunity for partners to have a presence at the events to promote their services to local communities.
Services can be related to health and wellbeing, digital, or wider health determinants. The intention is for events to be face-to-face, covid permitting.
To discuss the possibility of partnering contact amy.hearn@leeds.gov.uk or rachel.benn@leeds.gov.uk
Support for individuals
See our website for curated lists of digital inclusion signposting opportunities, tools and resources for the individuals you’re looking to support - perfect for signposting. To have your service included in our support pages so others can make use of or refer in to it contact us
Look to Speak app
Look to speak allows the ability for Android users to communicate pre written text by looking at their device to make choices - the device will then speak them out aloud.
Available for free on the Google Play store
YMCA Leeds Digital Skills Courses
Basic Digital Skills - Thurs 13th Jan, 12:30 - 14:45
Basic Digital Skills for ESOL Learners - Thurs 13th Jan, 9:45 - 12:00
This short course is for learners who want to learn and develop their basic digital skills. Learners will discover the internet including online shopping, Google maps, transport & emails. The course is tailored around learners so allows for individuals to achieve personal goals.
More info and book here
Support for organisations
See our website for curated lists of digital inclusion tools and resources to support you to embed digital inclusion within your organisation. If you would like to recommend a resource be added to our support pages so others can make use of or refer in to it contact us
Touchstone Tablet Loan Scheme: Tablets with data for organisations to borrow to pass on to service users
Touchstone have a tablet loan scheme called Healthy Connections. Organisations can borrow tablets to be loaned to people they work with who would otherwise be unable to get online. There are tablets available now and Touchstone are keen to get them to the people that need them before the Christmas period.
The Alcatel tablets with 40GB data can be borrowed for 3 months at a time free of charge.
Any organisation in West Yorkshire can apply and they can loan the tablets to any service user. They must be loaned to a service user, not kept for use by the organisation.
For more information and to request tablets contact Aimee Goldthorpe: aimeeg@touchstonesupport.org.uk, 07917664151
Digital divide: Financial difficulty and digital exclusion by Christians Against Poverty
This report presents data from CAP clients, as well as UK population data provided by Experian from Mosaic, to reveal the barriers that cause persistent and periodic digital exclusion – including capability and confidence, lack of access to devices and infrastructure, and the ongoing cost of internet data or a broadband connection.
Connect Up Community of Practice Network
If your organisation supports older people to get online, or plans to support older people to get online, join the new Connect Up Community of Practice network by completing this online form. Open to Online Centres Only.
Funding opportunities
100% Digital Leeds are keen to support the development of any funding bids with a digital inclusion element, or to help you embed digital inclusion throughout your project. If you would like support contact us
Ocado Foundation for Good - Grants
Ocado Foundation for Good is offering grants of up to £1,000 to charities, charitable companies, and local authorities to support skills and education development and promote sustainability in communities across the UK.
Proposals should align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals adopted by this programme. These are:
- Good health and wellbeing
- Decent work and economic growth
- Reduced inequalities
More info and apply
Deadline 31st December
Ideas that Change Lives - Kickstart and Development Grants
The Ideas that Change Lives programme offers business guidance and financial investment to help organisations and individuals develop socially enterprising ideas which support people in Leeds with care and support needs.
We want to support the development of social enterprises which help adults in Leeds with care and support needs to improve their health, improve their wellbeing and remain independent. We welcome applications that support a particular community (non-geographically) and also to support geographic areas.
Grant Size: Kickstart £500-£4,000; Development £4,001-£15,000
More info and apply
Deadline at 12 noon on 17 February 2022
Jimbo's Fund
This round of Jimbo’s Fund will make grants of £1,000 to £20,000 to support organisations working for the benefit of disadvantaged people in Leeds. Applicants need to be able to demonstrate that their beneficiaries are facing some sort of hardship; that their work is meeting an identified need in the local community; and that they can deliver tangible, positive results.
More info and apply
Connect Up Programme
The Connect Up Programme aims to remove older people's exclusion from the digital world, and connect them with one another to reduce their loneliness and isolation. Open to members of the Online Centres Network only.
More info and apply
DHSC Suicide Prevention Fund 2021-2022
The funding is intended to support suicide prevention VCSE organisations and groups to meet the increased need or demand for services, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and enhance service provision, with a particular focus on high-risk groups.
More info and apply
VocTech Seed Fund
The VocTech Seed Fund provides funding for initiatives that can improve the accessibility and delivery of adult learning through the use of technology.
More info and apply
The 100% Digital Leeds team are keen to hear from any organisations delivering in Leeds to people who are more likely to be digitally excluded. We will work with you to help you better understand the digital inclusion needs of your communities and embed digital inclusion awareness, support, and signposting, throughout your service to make it as inclusive as possible. To find out more contact us
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