Looking back over the last year it’s been great to review our impact at Anerley Town Hall.
Funded through Clarion Digital Futures, our digital inclusion programme has had different touchpoints with the community to ensure local residents have had the digital support and access they need.
226 people, directly benefitted through 115 hours of digital skills training and 127 volunteer hours (With a social value of £1,879 at London Living Wage)
Through our weekly Digital Drop-In, alongside Citizens Advice Bromley, we created a space where people could come and sit with a volunteer or practice in a social setting and our Community Learning programme delivered courses designed to help people build confidence with a new device, brush up skills after a little time out or just fill in the gaps we call have around being safe online and organising files or storage.
“Having someone there who doesn’t judge you changes everything. The support helped me recover from a scam and gave me back control. I used to avoid my phone because I thought I’d break it. Now I transfer files by myself and even help friends.”
We embed Learn My Way to extend activities at home and to support people to be more comfortable with an online learning platform; now a defacto standard within the workplace.
We’ve seen some fantastic outcomes:
- 90% reported reduced anxiety around using technology
- 100% reported increased confidence in device use.
- Over 65% now support others with digital tasks.
- 80% engaged in new social activities through group connections.
We look forward to returning to Anerley Town Hall as soon as we can.
