News & stories
Check out the latest member announcements and tips for digital inclusion delivery.
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29/05/2024PSTN Switchover - The switch to digital
Changes are coming for the UK’s landline services, with our old copper wire service switching to an internet-based service over the next few years. Does your hub have all the information you need to support people in your community to make the change?
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08/05/2024Listening and taking action - an update on the recent Network Survey
Over 400 Network members took part in our last survey. We've turned their feedback into an action plan.
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08/05/2024
Listening and taking action - an update on the recent Network Survey
Over 400 Network members took part in our last survey. We've turned their feedback into an action plan.
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24/04/2024New scheme to celebrate Digital Inclusion Hubs' achievements
Hubs that are delivering the National Databank and Learn My Way are now automatically entered into a monthly prize draw.
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19/04/2024It’s a festival of impact and data!
Our research and data insights team are very excited to launch a flurry of activities in April designed to help you, and us, better measure your impact.
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26/03/2024PressPlay: What libraries are telling us about digital inclusion
Community Engagement Manager, Louise Branch, provides her insights on the Library On Press Play event she attended in March.
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26/03/2024Tips for Supporting People During Ramadan
Community Engagement Manager, Louise Branch, puts together a list of tips from Network Ambassadors to help people in Muslim communities to get online during Ramadan.
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10/03/2024Get involved with Digital For All: Good Things’ latest campaign
Digital For All is a national campaign raising awareness of digital exclusion and the transformative impact getting access to digital has on people. Here's how you can get involved.
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09/03/2024Make some noise: advocacy & digital inclusion campaigning
Good Things are helping Network members make some noise and raise awareness of our community-based support at a pivotal time for digital inclusion.
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22/02/2024
Volunteer Management Spotlight
Good Things' Digital Inclusion Delivery team highlight key resources and training sessions for Network members to recruit, manage and retain volunteers to support the digital inclusion work you do.
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18/12/2023Jonathan's story: from disconnected to connected with the world
From an asylum seeker with no internet access to now a volunteer at Network member Learn for Life, Jonathan's life has been transformed with access to free data and a device.
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20/11/2023Stories from the Network: Digital Voice
National Digital Inclusion Network member Digital Voice share what they're doing to fix the North East digital divide.
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30/10/2023Visiting the network: our Get Online Week highlights
During Get Online Week 2023, the Good Things team visited lots of hubs, connecting with staff and speaking to people with lived experience of digital exclusion. Take a look at our highlights.
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22/09/2023
Money, money, money: a new grant model amid a challenging financial landscape
Good Things team members Gabi Woodhams and Jo Reynolds describe what hubs told them about the financial difficulties they’re facing, and introduce a new model of grant funding to help fix the digital divide.
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16/08/2023England’s libraries play a vital role in wider digital inclusion networks
New research has found libraries in England play a vital role in tackling digital exclusion – both as an individual service offer and – more importantly – as part of a wider ecosystem of digital inclusion support in communities.
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16/08/2023Community action is transformative: Hubs engage with their MPs on digital inclusion
At the forefront of activism are members of the National Digital Inclusion Network. Not only do you deliver essential digital inclusion products and services, but many have recently written or met with their local Members of Parliament (MPs) to get digital inclusion on the local agenda.
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24/07/2023House of Lords visit digital inclusion hub Skills Enterprise
Members of the House of Lords have seen first-hand the impact of hyperlocal, digital inclusion support. Good Things' Advocacy Manager, Hannah Whelan, discusses how to create that impact at scale - and meaningfully fix the digital divide across the country.
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24/07/2023Good Things launches Digital Inclusion Map
Now it's easy to find digital inclusion local help across the UK.
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24/12/2022Stories from the Network: 4MNet break down barriers for marginalised women
Network member 4Mnet train women living with HIV across the UK as Mentor Mothers to provide psycho-social support to peers in their pregnancy journey and beyond, and here they share how free mobile data and devices is breaking down the barriers for the women they support.
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14/12/2022
Sadia's story: overcoming mental health issues with digital
Read how developing digital skills and confidence through Learn My Way helped Sadia to become more independent and integrated within her local community.
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14/12/2022Stories from the Network: MRS Independent Living & Benchill Community Centre
Since the new Learn My Way launched in spring 2023, more and more hubs are using it to help their communities build digital skills. We hear how Network members MRS Independent Living and Benchill Community Centre have been using it.
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14/12/2022Amer's story: settling into life in the UK with free data and devices
From an asylum seeker with no internet access to becoming a volunteer at Job4Me, access to free data, a device, and digital skills has helped Amer kickstart his life in the UK.
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14/12/2022Kobra's story: from disconnected to immersed in community
Kobra was struggling to afford connectivity before visiting her local digital inclusion hub. Since accessing free data, devices and digital skills training, her life has been transformed.