Good practice Imported

Future Digital Inclusion

United Kingdom · Sheffield · National · See the United Kingdom profile

Good Things Foundation supports people to gain digital skills through the established network of UK online centres, based in informal settings in the heart of local communities (e.g. in community centres, libraries, shopping centres, and other services or hubs). Hundreds of grass

10,000+

Learners supported per month via Learn My Way

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Good Things Foundation — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: People with disabilities, Elderly people, Marginalised young people and children, Unemployed and those facing social problems, Migrants
People reached: 1300000
Period: 2014-01-01
Keywords: inclusion, flexible, learning platform, network

Context

Future Digital Inclusion, run by the Good Things Foundation, supports digital-skills gains through the UK's Online Centres Network -- thousands of grassroots community organisations -- with the Learn My Way learning platform and trained Digital Champion volunteers, targeting the hardest-to-reach groups.

Results

Learn My Way supports over 10,000 learners a month in web skills such as email, safety, job searching and transacting, addressing a context where 11.3 million UK adults (21%) lack basic digital skills and 8.6 million (16%) cannot complete an online application form.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

Philanthropic / foundation funding

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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

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% 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 reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. Future Digital Inclusion. Persistent ID: ff0a8796-5144-475f-987d-7a87c1c0dbe6.

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