We’re supporting a wide range of digital participation projects in communities across Scotland. Many of these are benefiting from financial support with our charter fund, or benefited from our challenge fund, whilst others are receiving in-kind support from organisations that have signed our digital participation charter. Each of them has a page on this site to tell their story in their own words.
Connecting Older People (COP)
ASRA
ASRA plan to deliver a 6-8 months project ‘Connecting Older People’ (COP) which will work with minority ethnic older people, in particular those from South Asian backgrounds. The a… Read moreBite Size Digital Skills
Advice Direct Scotland
ADS will use their existing Create eLearning package to design bitesize digital skills modules for their volunteers. Face-to-face or online learning will be offered depending on th… Read moreBlackwood Connect Tayside
Blackwood Homes and Care
Blackwood are committed to providing free at point of access Wi-Fi to all tenants as part of their care at home package. Over the next 3 years Blackwood will invest over £800,000 i… Read moreConnecting Edinburgh
Blackwood Homes and Care
This project will introduce digital technology into sheltered schemes across Edinburgh where Blackwood have recently been awarded a contract to provide care at home services. Activ… Read moreSilver Surfers
Burnfoot Community Futures
The Silver Surfers project aims to support people aged over 50 in Hawick who are not computer literate and are digitally excluded, economically disadvantaged, socially isolated and… Read moreCarers Get On Line!
Carers of East Lothian
The project will offer 3 courses of 5 sessions each tailored for carers who lack basic digital skills. These will be spread across the county but with a focus towards the ex-coalfi… Read moreDigitally Active @Home
Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association Ltd
This project seeks to devise and provide sessions in the remaining 9 sheltered housing developments through continuing to work collaboratively with key partners. Funding is require… Read moreSwitch-to-Save
Changeworks
Changeworks knows from supporting people in fuel poverty that many know they are paying too much, do not know how to achieve savings, and/or have barriers preventing them switching… Read morePutting the Social into Social Media: a digital literacy campaign for the voluntary arts
Creative Lives
'Putting the Social into Social Media' will address five key digital skills of communicating, transacting, managing information, problem-solving and creating through a 9 month prog… Read moreGetting Online
Cyrenians
The project will be embedded within Cyrenians current services working with people who are far from work and/or socially isolated. There are two components: 1) Facilitated courses… Read moreDigital Deaf Awareness
Deaf Connections
Deaf people will have the opportunity to work with their Deaf Digital Challenge Officer and volunteers in order to manage information, use digital basic skills for communication (e… Read more
