Digital Voice increases services – despite lockdown

It’s Digital Skills Week! Lockdown has shown just how vital digital skills are to everyone – and Digital Voice for Communities has risen to the challenge by developing more than a dozen exciting new online services see here - Digital Voice: Covid-19 Response.

A wide range of vulnerable people are being supported to take part in online projects to help them to cope with the difficulties of the pandemic.

Children, older people and people with disabilities are benefiting from hands-on digital media projects developed at short notice to fit safely with remote working and social distancing. 

Vulnerable children are taking part in a virtual DigitalMe course to help them to express their feelings, and people with learning disabilities are getting connected and making videos to help their peers. See more information on Digital Voice’s services here – many can be revamped to deliver remotely.  

Managing Director Julie Nicholson said:

“It’s never been more important for our work to support the most disadvantaged in society to be delivered. Despite the fact that – like everyone else – the Digital Voice team has been coping with homeworking and keeping everyone safe, we’re delighted that we’ve been able to work with our partners to redevelop our courses and programmes to speedily change how we deliver that vital support.”

“Digital Voice’s work for more than a decade has been to ensure the most vulnerable in our communities are digitally included. The last eight weeks have shown how vital our mission is!” 

Digital Voice is a social enterprise that has helped thousands of people to tackle the digital divide. Millions of people across the UK miss out on the benefits of digital media, such as keeping in touch with friends and family, ordering shopping or developing new skills.  Since DV was set up in 2007, it has won awards for its pioneering creative digital media work to give a voice to and empower people who have been excluded.  

Future Dot Now, the charity behind Digital Skills Week, has lots of events planned - check them out on its website https://futuredotnow.uk/digital-skills-week/ Digital Voice plans to work with the charity to help to distribute tablets and wifi to the most digitally excluded people and organisations in our communities.

Interested in working with us? We’d love to hear from you!