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The Digital Garage
United Kingdom · Sheffield · Transnational · See the United Kingdom profile · See the Sheffield profile
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 97% 32/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
The Digital Garage is an online learning platform and a real life bus. The latter is equipped with all the latest technology, alongside expert trainers, which provides an accessible way for people to learn how to improve their digital skills. Good Things Foundation has partnered
Details
- Maturity
- Scaling
- Promoter
- Good Things Foundation, Google — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Unemployed and those facing social problems, Marginalised young people and children
- People targeted
- 10000
- Period
- 2016-06-30
- Keywords
- digital skills, courses, tools, bus
Context
Good Things Foundation partnered with Google to bring the Digital Garage programme to the Online Centres Network and the communities it serves.
Objectives
To provide an accessible way for people, small businesses, sole traders and people setting up businesses to improve their digital skills, so they can find a new job, set up a business, or make an existing business more efficient and profitable.
Activities
Digital Garage combines an online learning platform with a real-life bus fitted with the latest technology and expert trainers. Visitors to the bus can join courses on building a CV, social-media strategy and other digital-skills topics.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Medium (€50k–€500k)
- Time to results
- Long (> 3 years)
- Staffing & skills
- Expert trainers staffing the Digital Garage bus, Good Things Foundation's Online Centres Network hosting/promoting sessions
Conditions for success
- Corporate partnership (Google) providing technology, content and bus infrastructure
- Integration with an existing national network of community learning centres
Where it fits
- Governance type
- charity-corporate partnership
- Scale
- national
Commonly funded by
Own resources / municipal budget
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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
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