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Hope Amplified

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 100% 12/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The Digital Inclusion Initiative is both a financial and computer wellness activity geared towards ensuring that participants money is managed well; that they have access to appropriate financial services and can manage their money on a day to day basis; and they can plan for the

81 %
Young people unable to use a computer to access basic financial services (pilot sample of 44)
12 residents
Residents attending per weekly session
Hope Amplified

Details

Maturity
Discontinued
Promoter
Hope Amplified — website
Type
Service
Status
Ended
Target groups
Migrants, Unemployed and those facing social problems
Period
2017-12-01 – 2018-08-30
Keywords
digital skills, life skills, financial health

Context

Hope Amplified operates in Cambuslang, Springhall, Whitlawburn and Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, a regeneration area of about 13,000 people where more than half of residents live in a bottom-15% income-deprivation zone, among the most deprived neighbourhoods in Scotland.

Objectives

The Digital Inclusion Initiative was a financial and computer wellness activity aimed at ensuring participants could manage money, access appropriate financial services, and cope with financial pressures from welfare reform.

Activities

The project ran as a pilot with a two-hour session every Friday for 12 residents, including workshops on computer literacy and numeracy, and saw exponential demand growth from the local African community stemming from welfare cuts.

Results

Over 81% (37 of 44) of young people from the African communities surveyed were unable to use a computer to access or use basic financial services and products such as bank accounts, credit cards or affordable loans.

Conclusions

The outcome highlighted worrying levels of financial exclusion and computer illiteracy for African (including former asylum-seeker and refugee) communities; no formal evaluation was conducted.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Funded via the SCVO Community Capacity Resilience Fund; small local-scale weekly programme, no budget figure disclosed.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Approximately nine months, December 2017 to August 2018, growing from a pilot due to rising demand.
Staffing & skills
Hope Amplified (community-led organisation), SCVO (Community Capacity Resilience Fund)

Conditions for success

  • Weekly recurring sessions embedded in a local community centre
  • Targeted a specific high-deprivation regeneration area
  • Combined financial-wellness and computer-literacy curriculum

Common failure modes

  • No formal evaluation ('Evaluation: No')
  • Small sample size (44 young people) limits generalisability
  • Demand driven by welfare cuts strained pilot capacity

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