LAMH Recycle Limited
Charity registered in Scotland SC038742
Based in the heart of Lanarkshire, our modern, vibrant charity provides training, volunteering and employment opportunities through our recycling facility for unemployed people experiencing long term health conditions, isolation and/or poverty. Through provision of personal goal-setting, one-to-one mentoring and group work, we support participants to manage their individual circumstances so that they have the life skills they need to overcome their personal life challenges and re-engage with society.
Our main business activities are: • IT Equipment Recycling (SEPA licensed for the safe disposal of electronic/electrical equipment) • Cardboard, Paper, Plastics, Glass and Aluminium/Steel Can Recycling • Refurbishment of IT Equipment for reuse within the local community • Employability Development Services
We aim to engage and support people in our locale living with multiple and complex challenges – focusing on the potential they have, rather than for their problems.
- From 16 October 2017 to 29 June 2018
- Award: £9,779 via Call 5
- Data published on 360Giving
- http://www.lamhrecycle.co.uk
Project plan
Project description
The project will provide basic digital skills learning to people in Lanarkshire who are not computer literate and are digitally excluded, economically disadvantaged and socially isolated.
The aim of this project is to help reduce isolation and poverty by getting more people online, increase their digital capability and employment prospects. Due to the fact that the benefits claim systems is now online, we are seeing more and more people needing help to be able to access core services they need to survive. Transacting online, registering for and using digital government services will therefore form key parts of the sessions we will provide. Teaching will be personalised and flexible, offering support in managing information; communicating; transacting; problem solving, job search and creating basic digital content.
The plan is to offer a mixture of small, informal group sessions and 1 to 1 support. Each participant will be offered a weekly, 2 hour learning session for a period of 8 weeks. Our team will work with each individual participant to identify their starting point and learning needs, which devices they want to use, and then build in specific skills within the lessons such as security and staying safe online. We will utilise our wide range of refurbished PC’s and laptops to deliver the training; to showcase how fast and efficient these machines can be, red-educating people on the benefits of a circular economy. Participants will also have the option of bringing their own hand held devices along and can take training notes away on a pen drive.
The sessions will be organised and delivered by our IT Co-ordinator and Digital Skills Trainer assisted by a number of volunteers. The project will support and train up a number of volunteer digital champions who will be able to assist customer queries on an ongoing basis
Project milestones
Phase 1
Initiate project, promotion and recruitment, self-assessment questionnaires and training materials
Phase 2
1:1 sessions progressing to small groups; recruit and train 5 Digital Inclusion Volunteers
Phase 3
Maintain groups and 1:1 sessions; review sustainability of project (external funding/volunteer engagement)
Phase 4
Introduce self-guided learning, conclude groups and handover to volunteers to sustain activity
Evaluation
Updates
Our project launch successfully established a mixture of small, informal group sessions and 1 to 1 support. Each participant was offered a weekly, 2 hour learning session for a period of 8 weeks, accessing a variety of digital skills sessions tailored to their own individual needs. A small number chose to attend 3 weeks' worth of sessions then continued to access online sessions remotely – we were able to set them up and show them how to continue to access free online sessions.
Our project successfully delivered a mixture of small, informal group sessions and 1 to 1 support. Each participant was offered a weekly, 2 hour learning session for a period of 8 weeks, accessing a variety of digital skills sessions tailored to their own individual needs. A small number chose to attend 3 weeks' worth of sessions then continued to access online sessions remotely – we were able to set them up and show them how to continue to access free online sessions.
Our project launch successfully established a mixture of small, informal group sessions and 1 to 1 support. Each participant was offered a weekly, 2 hour learning session for a period of 8 weeks, accessing a variety of digital skills sessions tailored to their own individual needs. A small number chose to attend 3 weeks' worth of sessions then continued to access online sessions remotely – we were able to set them up and show them how to continue to access free online sessions.
