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Good Things Foundation
The Good Things Foundation is a national charity that looks to advocate for digital inclusion and improve digital literacy across the UK in a wide array of demographics.
"We’re on a mission to help everyone become digitally equal, able and safe,
so that they can be happier, healthier and better off." - The Good Things Foundation
Plenty of the resources below are hosted or provided by the Foundation, who also have a National Device Bank and Data Bank for members of their website. If you're interested in joining the Foundation and getting access to any future device provisions, click here.
Digital Inclusion Network
The Digital Inclusion Network is an initiative led by Liverpool City Region that aims to bring organisations, businesses and charities together to discuss the role we can all play in the implementation of digital inclusion across the region.
It's core goals include:
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Building a co-ordinated and connected digital inclusion ecosystem across Liverpool City Region.
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Supporting organisations across the city region to deliver digital inclusion activities in a sustainable way.
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Increase awareness and understanding of the digital inclusion agenda and help influence system-level change across the city region.
If you're part of a local organisation and would be interested in joining the Digital Inclusion Network, click below:
Charity Digital
Charity Digital, as well as the Charity Digital Exchange, Since 2001, Charity Digital has saved 77,000 charities more than £284m on software.
It's core goals include:
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Building a co-ordinated and connected digital inclusion ecosystem across Liverpool City Region.
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Supporting organisations across the city region to deliver digital inclusion activities in a sustainable way.
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Increase awareness and understanding of the digital inclusion agenda and help influence system-level change across the city region.
If you're part of a local organisation and would be interested in joining the Digital Inclusion Network, click below:
What We Offer
How to Use Social Media Effectively
To read more about how you can effectively utilise social media for your organisation, including topics such as branding, sharing, analytics and more, read our blog post below:
One-to-One Support
We've worked in the past to help organisations with very compact social media audits where we're able to go through a Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn profile for your organisation and pick out some tips as to where you could possibly optimise your pages. As well as this, we're always happy to provide advice and to discuss any concerns you have with your organisation's digital presence!
Contact us via e-mail at info@wcvs.org.uk to discuss the support we can provide you and your organisation.
Resources
Online Safety
Ensuring the safety of online users is often an important element of safeguarding. If your organisation facilitates the use of the internet with service users, specifically children, these resources may be useful to you.
NSPCC - Keeping Children Safe Online
Safer Internet Centre
Age UK - Staying Safe Online
Internet Matters
Get Safe Online
Digital Skills
For a deeper look into supporting yourself or others with improving digital literacy, this resource collection is very useful.
Employability Skills
A great use of the internet is to find employment opportunities. If your organisation supports people with this, here's some great links to explore.
Social Media
To supplement the advice given above, there are a wealth of resources below to support you with utilising social media in your organisation.