by Clara Jones | Jun 8, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
During Volunteers Week 2023, we’ve been thanking Digital Champion volunteers for the help they give with digital skills. Clara Jones, Head of Digital Inclusion at Starting Point Community Learning Partnership, who manage the DigiKnow Digital Champions network, tells...
by Dave Kelly | Jun 1, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport, Enabling Independence
This Volunteers Week (1-7 June), we want to recognise the fantastic contribution volunteers make to our communities and say Thank You to them. The DigiKnow alliance has over 40 Digital Champion volunteers who help out regularly at classes across Stockport. We recently...
by Naomi Mather | May 17, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport, Enabling Independence
Thursday, 18 May 2023, marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a day to get everyone talking, thinking, and learning about digital access and inclusion. The DigiKnow alliance is vital to achieving our aim to be a 100% digital borough where no one is left behind or...
by Rachael Turner | May 3, 2023 | Collaboration, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport, Jobs
Rachael Turner is a Director at Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab), a DigiKnow network partner. Here she provides an update on their free beginners’ coding course for young people, the subject of MadLab’s earlier blog, and feedback from some of the learners...
by Chris Bennett | Apr 25, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital skills, Digital Stockport
During ALL DIGITAL Weeks we are spotlighting the work of some of our DigiKnow partners. In 2021 Community Computers, a Stockport charity, joined the DigiKnow Alliance to set up a device recycling scheme to refurbish donated devices for people on low incomes and repair...
by Siobhan Myers | Apr 20, 2023 | Collaboration, Communities, DigiKnow, Digital Stockport
During ALL DIGITAL Weeks we are spotlighting the work of some of our DigiKnow partners. The Prevention Alliance (TPA), one of the founding partners of DigiKnow, has delivered Stockport Support Hub and Your Support since April 2022. Siobhan Myers is Team Manager for...