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Helping vulnerable people start and stay safe online
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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 100% 12/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
This year long initiative helped over 1200 people in their communities learn to stay safe online and improve their digital capability. Participants had access to an online safety course and other online training at centres. Homeless people, families in poverty, and people with po
1200 people
People helped/reached (31 Jul 2017-30 Jul 2018)
Details
- Maturity
- Discontinued
- Promoter
- Good Things Foundation — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ended
- Target groups
- Elderly people, People with disabilities, Unemployed and those facing social problems
- People targeted
- 1200
- Period
- 2017-07-31 – 2018-07-30
- Keywords
- digital inclusion, homeless, online safety, course
Context
Good Things Foundation is a social-change charity that supports socially excluded people to improve their lives through digital skills, working in partnership with TalkTalk on this initiative.
Objectives
The year-long initiative aimed to help people in their communities learn to stay safe online and improve their digital capability, focusing on homeless people, families in poverty, and people with poor mental health.
Activities
Participants had access to an online safety course and other online training delivered at community centres run by the Good Things Foundation network.
Results
The initiative helped over 1,200 people in their communities learn to stay safe online and improve their digital capability.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Medium (€50k–€500k) — National-scale, one-year programme delivered via an existing online-centre network with corporate (TalkTalk) support; no budget figure disclosed.
- Time to results
- Short (< 1 year) — One-year initiative, July 2017 to July 2018.
- Staffing & skills
- Good Things Foundation (delivery charity), TalkTalk (corporate partner), network of local online/community centres
Conditions for success
- Delivery through an existing network of community-based online centres
- Corporate telecom sponsor (TalkTalk) support
- Targeting of specifically vulnerable groups: homeless people, families in poverty, people with poor mental health
Common failure modes
- No formal evaluation conducted
- No breakdown of outcomes by sub-group or skill-level change reported
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
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