Being a Digital Champion is more about people than it is about digital.,Embedding digital inclusion support into your service can help.,It will be easier to engage someone and maintain that engagement longer-term.,It’s a familiar brand which can help new learners feel at home.,As a Digital Champion, your goal is to keep your learner motivated and excited about being online.

How we deliver Digital Champion support has changed throughout the course of the pandemic.,Face-to-face support Working face to face with learners can look different for each digital champion;,Normally, a Digital Champion would support someone with their digital skills face-to-face in a setting,As Digital Champions we are confident users of the internet, and our learners are brand new to it.,This is to protect both the learner and the Digital Champion.

opportunities to learn new skills.,That’s what makes them ideal places to host digital champions! What can a village hall do?,Support local volunteers to become digital champions.,Digital champions are anyone that helps someone get online.,for supporting a learner.

That's what a Digital Champion does.,It can also feel like a big responsibility and this guide is here to help support you.,Could I be a Digital Champion?,A good Digital Champion is: Friendly, approachable, and eager to help others learn new skills A good,In this guide we will use the term ‘Digital Champions’ to cover all these terms.

can introduce new activities.,You can use SCVO’s Digital Skills Check-up tool to measure your own or your learner’s digital skills.,They are the skills that build our digital confidence and enable us us to adapt to new technologies.,How should I engage with partner organisations?,Champion Guide.

We’ve grown and improved our services, championed the voluntary sector in many places, built partnerships,, as well as supporting voluntary organisations to be more digitally engaged themselves.,and supporters than ever before into our community. 655 new members 32 new supporters Meet our membership,SCVO digital webpage views 1,400 learners on our free Microsoft training sessions mPower The mPower,new opportunities to replace lost income to continue to support our work.

Hello to our 256 new members, 13 new supporters – and welcome back to our existing ones!,We also produced our annual Third Force News Guide to Running a Charity or Social Enterprise, which focused,to support learning and developing long term digital skills.,To-date, over 40,000 households have been supported and 2,700 Digital Champions have been trained to,Our members voted in support of a new membership fee structure in early 2021 and we created a new membership

We also introduced new information and guidance for the lifecycle of a charity via our online guides,,including our: New guide to closing down a charity Updated guide to finding funding New charity law,To support this new guidance, SCVO developed resources and guides, ran an exclusive Goodmoves special,We built relationships and championed the work of the voluntary sector to the media, influencers and,opportunities in 2023 to provide short-term support to new and existing digital inclusion initiatives