Say hello to a New Year and a new confidence with your digital skills!

Say hello to a New Year and a new confidence with your digital skills!

Jan 3, 2026

Well its 2026 and are you ready to take matters into your own hands?

Our weekly schedule of Digital Drop-Ins resumes on Monday January 5th and our team of staff on volunteers are ready welcome you and help to resolve some of those niggling questions you might have, help to set up a new device you might have received for Christmas or enable you to build the confidence to be safer online.

Many people come and use the space to practice or to do necessary ‘admin’ tasks like sorting out and deleting email, deleing photos, and transferring files!

Boring right? Absolutely, but it has to be done so why not come and do this in a social environment an help us get through the mountain of treats left over after Christmas!

We have one key change to our schedule; we have, unfortunately closed the doors to our session at Norbury Library but will now be at Croydon Central Library every Thursday 11-1 as part of an exciting new programme there.

Please note, our long standing sessions at Upper Norwood Library Hub are currently not running and advise you to attend either Anerley Town Hall or West Norwood Library instead.

All of our sessions are free and open to all, and are a chance to also connect with the wider community and be amongst fellow ‘travellers’ on their own digital learning journey.

If you are new, feel free to pop along for a chat and see if it is right for you. This is quite common.  You don’t need to feel any pressure to jump straight in.

Once registered, you can drop in as often or as infrequently as you like, The door is always open

We have running sessions in Bromley (Anerley Town Hall, Orpington Methodist Church), Croydon (Age UK Croydon, Central Library Croydon, Floating Community Hub), Lambeth (West Norwood Library, Old Laundry Stockwell) and Southwark  (Age UK Lewisham & Southwark).

Our full schedule, with days, times and addresses can be found here.

Keep your eyes peeled for our next post with full details of our workshop and community learning schedule

Full Schedule
Our final sessions of the year

Our final sessions of the year

Dec 7, 2025

And so we come to the end of the year and our final week of Digital Drop-Ins, Online Services Support, Courses and Workshops out in the community.

We will be announcing our January programme very shortly but can confirm at our regular session will be commencing w/c 5th January 2026.

If you fancy something new we are running the second of our workshops called ‘Using AI to be more organized’  at the Floating Community Hub in Ashburton Park. A fun way to find out about how we can use AI on our phones in a safe and helpful way – and get know what this new subject is all about!

If this isn’t for you then if would be great to see you at one of our Digital Drop Ins before the Christmas break.

Croydon Central Library Digital Zone

Croydon Central Library Digital Zone

Nov 15, 2025

We recently launched the new Croydon Central Library Digital Zone with a fun afternoon of workshops, talks and connecting with the community.

We were joined Barclays, BirdieBox, NHS, CALAT and the Library archives team presenting a range of subjects including Scam Awareness, a practical introduction to AI, using the NHS App, App to support dementia and accessing Croydon’s Heritage online.

There was also an opportunity to contribute to a Podcast on the day and showcase the facilities available

Over 60 people attended and it was a great way bring the community into this fantastic new space.

From January we will be running a programme of activities every Thursday, throughout the day, including our community learning programme, digital drop ins , volunteer and frontline staff training as well as critical support.

We will be using the space to explore all facets of digital inclusion and to truly understand the needs and challenges of the community whilst providing a platform to run focus groups and to help inform services.

Watch this space

Digital Horizons returns to Orpington

Digital Horizons returns to Orpington

Nov 15, 2025

Digital Horizons returns to Orpington Methodist on Monday 1st September 2pm-5pm

When we first launched this community event, in partnership with Orpington PCN, we saw a fantastic turn out from both the community and local groups wanting to learn more about digital skills, to build confidence and to connect with their neighbours.

So more of the same please!

This time we have a fantastic range of speakers include Barclays, BirdieBox, ClearCommunityWeb and Southern Rail covering the following subjects:

  • Scam awareness
  • A practical introduction to AI
  • Booking assisted travel
  • Using apps to manage dementia and memory loss
  • Managing your health online
  • How to access free data and donated devices through local schemes

There will be free refreshments and a chance to win a smart phone or chromebook through our raffle.

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We celebrated International Day for Older People with a Digital Horizons event

We celebrated International Day for Older People with a Digital Horizons event

Nov 5, 2025

It was fun to run our first Digital Horizons event in Lambeth with a strong turn out of over 56 local residents as well as volunteers and community partners to celebrate both the International Day of Older People and Cyber Awareness Month at WeAre336.

We had key talks on range of digital subjects including ‘Using Apps Safely’ and  ‘Top Tips with the NHS App’ from ClearCommunityWeb, Scam Awareness from Barclays, BirdieBox and using apps to support people with dementia, Met -Engage courtesy of Lambeth Neighbourhood Watch and using technology to help manage MSK and long-term pain from Ben Wanless at St Georges Hospital.

A key note from Cllr Donatus Anyanwu really helped to bring the voices from the community into the room.

Helping people feel connected and to be safer was definitely a theme as well as seeking ways to support each other – and what better than through the end of digital – let’s face it a subject where it is impossible to know it all and a guarantee that we all mess up at least once along the way 😉

Events such as these are key and critical in support people who are digitally excluded feel part of thr equation and for others to develop their own skills and confidence to support in the community.

This is why we exist. Simples!

Thank you so much to Lambeth Public Health for supporting this event and to all the contributors in no particular order