More accessible will be its annual Community Learning Awards scheme and a Giving Programme that provides free software packages.
Who's it for? The Giving Programme applies to UK charities and non-profit organisations. The scheme is particularly interested in projects that improve access to technology for disadvantaged communities. The Community Learning Awards provide 25 prizes of 2,000 to community groups and charities across the UK that are tackling "digital exclusion". Successful projects will improve IT training for disadvantaged young people and adults within a community setting in the UK and will understand and prepare progression routes for participants. Among last year's winners was the HYPA project in Hampshire, an information and support drop-in project for young people, which was able to purchase a new computer and software to run a music project teaching IT skills. Another was Kent Youth in Gillingham, which was able to train volunteers for a peer mentoring project teaching IT skills to hard-to-reach young people.
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