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Helping vulnerable people start and stay safe online
United Kingdom · Sheffield · National · See the United Kingdom profile
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
Details
- 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
Description
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 poor mental health were among those who were helped through the innovative programmes run by these centres, focused on staying safe online.
Context: Good Things Foundation is a social change charity that supports socially excluded people to improve their lives through digital.
Stakeholders involved: Talk Talk
Key learning points: NEI.
Evaluation: No
Information sources: None.
Read the full analysis: https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/projects/helping-vulnerable-people-start-and-stay-safe-online
Implementation
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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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