Organisations right across the voluntary sector rapidly turned to digital during the pandemic because,SCVO’s digital team are offering a free training programme, funded by the National Lottery Community,Fund, this spring to support organisations to move forward on their digital journey.,She has 7 years’ experience at SCVO of developing and delivering training and support to support the,by The National Lottery Community Fund (Scotland)

We are no longer taking applications for Round 5 Introduction Scotland is already a digital nation.,Over the past three years, the Digital Participation Challenge Fund and Charter Fund have supported 126,projects across Scotland to get people online and develop basic digital skills.,Supported by the Scottish Government and BT, the new Digital Participation Charter Fund is now open for,There is a particular focus for the Fund to support organisations currently working to tackle poverty

Our Digital Participation Challenge Fund, supported by the Scottish Government, the ERDF and BT, invests,The projects that we’re supporting will enable groups and organisations to digitise content, build digital,third round of the Digital Challenge fund with fantastic project ideas coming in from across the country,fund and a further 7 have been supported with money pledged by BT Scotland.,Participation Leadership Group made 33 direct offers of funding for digital participation projects.

The Challenge Fund set out to support organisations that work closely with local communities to “digitising,Now in its ninth round, the Digital Participation Charter Fund is seeking to support more organisations,Take it slow and keep the digital support to under 60 minutes at a time. Have fun!,This fund, along with others supported through the Connecting Scotland programme, seeks to improve digital,The Digital Participation Charter Fund supports organisations that do incredibly important work to promote

of the Scottish Charity Awards this year, but to win two of the categories (Campaign of the Year and Digital,platforms for our wellbeing services adding digital and telephone counselling, Zoom Coping with Change,workshops, befriending calls and a suite of digital self-help resources which have all been a major,By adding these digital services, we have become more accessible to people living in rural communities,takes additional funding and financial support.

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What is clear from this cohort is that digital inclusion support is still a priority for a wide range

of digital inclusion and a transition from ‘assisted digital’ support via face-to-face interactions,to build capacity to provide digital skills support.,their role effectively as well as embedding digital support.,Despite a range of funding programmes to support digital inclusion a few years ago and more recently,There are very few, if any, funding opportunities specifically for digital inclusion.

Partnerships to support digital inclusion activity operate on multiple levels including: Informal collaborations,- one to one and multi partner collaborations usually operating in a local area to support digital skills,Formal collaborations & partnerships delivering digital skills through funded programmes (governed by,Larger locality-based partnerships (with wide ranging memberships, often supported by dedicated staff,and funding) usually operating within a local authority area, such as our place-based digital inclusion