Good practice Imported

Building Better Opportunities (BBO) - ReachIT Lancashire Digital Inclusion Project

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ReachIT is a digital inclusion project that has a core aim to ensure that no-one in Lancashire is lacking in basic computer skills. ReachIT provide targeted, personalised digital skills training to the people of Lancashire. They aim to improve: - Employability - Health & wellbein

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: WEA — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems
Period: 2018-01-01
Keywords: digital inclusion, employment, digital skills, health

Context

ReachIT, delivered by the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) with the Lancashire Wide Association of Councils for Voluntary Service and over 30 local delivery partners, provides personalised digital-skills training across Lancashire, funded by the European Social Fund and the Big Lottery Fund, aimed at improving employability, health and wellbeing for socially excluded residents.

Implementation

Indicative cost: Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results: Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills: WEA volunteer tutors, Local third-sector delivery partners (Age UK, MIND, Disability Equality NW, BME Network, LGBT Network and others)

Conditions for success

Volunteer tutors familiar with local communities and languages
A wide county-level network of over 30 delivery partners channelling engagement through local services

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 52/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 80% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach0/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. Building Better Opportunities (BBO) - ReachIT Lancashire Digital Inclusion Project. Persistent ID: 77998ccc-2aef-495f-8445-22da71d13053.

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