by Mike Howard | Aug 3, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital access, Digital skills, Digital Stockport
Starting Point Learning Partnership, as part of the Digital Inclusion Alliance, has launched a new free DigiKnow Friends training session to help raise recognition of digital exclusion in Stockport and signpost where support is available. It’s the first step of a...
by Aimee Teare | Jul 27, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, Digital access, Digital Stockport, Enabling Independence
In 2014, Stockport Council Adult Social Care (ASC) service commissioned a range of prevention and early help services to support residents to live safe, healthy, happy, and independent lives at home in the community, improve their emotional and economic well-being and...
by Renuka Parmar and Clara Jones | Jun 16, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
DigiKnow, our digital inclusion programme, is now five years old! After the last two years of pivot and flex caused by the pandemic, we recently met with the steering partners to look at what we have achieved and workshop our roadmap. Undeniably the biggest challenge...
by Katherine Rosati | Jun 1, 2022 | Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
You may not know but people have been volunteering in Britain since Medieval times. Back in the 12th and 13th centuries, estimates suggest that there were no fewer than 500 voluntary church hospitals established in England. Volunteering continued through the...
by Wesley Downs | Mar 16, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
Community Computers is a not-for-profit initiative born from and operated by registered charity, Renewal North West (1145056). As a DigiKnow Alliance Partner, the project is able to repair, recycle and refurbish IT devices to provide them back into the community at...
by Helen Johnson | Mar 7, 2022 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport, Smart places
This week’s Digital City Festival will once again bring thought-leaders from around the world to Greater Manchester, this time to address the key challenges as we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic. There’s a great line-up of interesting keynote speeches and...