Space & Broomhouse Hub
Charity registered in Scotland SC003706
The Broomhouse Centre is a registered charity which raises funds to tackle the most immediate issues in Broomhouse and South West Edinburgh. Over the 27 years of the Centre's existence, 28 community services have been developed to fit the needs of the community. Most of these have been innovative at the time of launch and continue to be so. Our mission is to create opportunities that make a positive difference to the lives of our community, people in Broomhouse, Sighthill & Parkhead, and South West Edinburgh, to enable them to flourish, thrive and achieve their highest potential. The centre is within the South West Locality Area of Edinburgh, an area of high deprivation. With a population of 39,000, Broomhouse has a 28% income deprivation percentage, a 24% employment deprivation percentage and 35% child poverty (top 10% in Scotland). One of the core groups we work with is people with dementia
- From 2 September 2019 to 28 August 2020
- Award: £9,800 via Call 7
- Data published on 360Giving
- www.broomhousecentre.org.uk
Project plan
Project description
We want to provide basic digital skills training to older people with dementia who attend the Beacon Club over a 12-month period. To do this work we would like to work with Cre8te Opportunities and utilise a trainer through them on a sessional basis, as well as purchase some iPads and our application is for funding to support this. This IT training and support will be delivered by the trainer and volunteers and will also involve the development of digital champions from within the beneficiaries and their carers. The digital champions will keep the programme going beyond the life of the funded project and will support individuals to get online, access the internet, email and other basic digital skills like shopping, banking and accessing public services including health and wellbeing. The specific outcomes would be to recruit a trainer, to establish a network of digital champions across South West Edinburgh and to provide free training and one-to-one support for 30 older people over 12 months, with the specific objectives of the programme being to provide a combination of skills, confidence and ongoing support. The benefits will be: -Address inequalities caused by move to online - health care, social care and wellbeing advances being missed by those who need them most -Access to online GP services -Access to information on health information, local wellbeing activities and clubs will improve wellbeing and have a positive effect on mental health -Access to internet support forums and reliable advice sources, thereby reducing strain on health service provision -Reduce social isolation by visits/contact with trainer and digital champions - mostly face-to-face, one-to-one, but also group where appropriate -Leave a legacy through Digital Champions to provide ongoing support - formal and informal -Support carers who are often acting as proxies through training and support -Based on individual/personal needs and interests -Make it fun -Leave individuals better equipped to deal with modern world -Support delivered at local level in familiar surroundings There is a call for growth of telecare, telehealth and online resources, but these are no help to those not able to use the technology. Our training will give users skills to be able to use and access technology by giving them confidence and practical training. With GP services moving online for prescriptions and appointments, self-management of conditions, access to test results etc we will support the older people and their carers to access these services
Project milestones
Phase 1
Achieved numbers of those completing training
Phase 2
Achieved % of those that have improved digital skills
Phase 3
Achieved % of those that have improved social inclusion
Phase 4
Number of positive case studies where use of tablets has continued after programme either at home or in Beacon Club
