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  • Powering up success

    04/11/2020 · Our thoughts

    Powering up success

    Grants Manager Sue Hennessey blogs about the 15 grantee partners who began their journey in November 2019 and how they have developed their projects.

  • See It Differently launch

    12/10/2020 · Our thoughts

    See It Differently launch

    In partnership with relationship charity OnePlusOne, Good Things Foundation has launched a new digital resource to help parents move towards conflict resolution.

  • Piloting Digital Support with HM Courts and Tribunals Service

    29/09/2020 · Our thoughts

    Piloting Digital Support with HM Courts and Tribunals Service

    Director of Digital Social Inclusion, Adam Micklethwaite, reflects on Good Thing Foundation's project working with HMCTS to increase digital inclusion in courts and tribunals services.

  • To internship or not to internship

    19/08/2020 · Our thoughts

    To internship or not to internship

    Executive Intern Jenny Llewellyn discusses the pros and cons of internships, and what an internship looks like at Good Things Foundation.

  • Partnership for a 100% digitally included UK

    05/08/2020 · Our thoughts

    Partnership for a 100% digitally included UK

    Chair of our Board of Trustees, Liz Williams MBE, highlights how COVID-19 has exposed the human impact of digital exclusion like never before. The personal stories behind DevicesDotNow hammer that home.

  • Responding to the chancellor’s summer statement

    09/07/2020 · Our thoughts

    Responding to the chancellor’s summer statement

    Whilst 17.1 million of the nation's workforce lack digital skills for work, CEO Helen Milner calls for action to be taken now to fix the digital divide in light if Rishi Sunak’s summer economic statement.

  • Powering up the recovery

    01/07/2020 · Our thoughts

    Powering up the recovery

    Adam Micklethwaite blogs about the Power Up grantee partner's response to Covid-19 and what the future holds in store for the initiative.

  • Powering through, a time to reflect

    30/06/2020 · Our thoughts

    Powering through, a time to reflect

    James Richardson blogs about what the 15 grantee partners have achieved in the first year of the Power Up inititiative.

  • Volunteers’ Week 2020

    30/06/2020 · Our thoughts

    Volunteers’ Week 2020

    Volunteer Manager, Hilary Nugent, talks about her volunteering experience, and how the nature of volunteering has changed this year due to Covid-19.

  • Money, debt, digital: 5 new ways to lose out

    29/06/2020 · Our thoughts

    Money, debt, digital: 5 new ways to lose out

    Our Director of Design, Research and Comms, Emma Stone, unpicks how digital exclusion exacerbates poverty and financial exclusion, and why digital inclusion to enable financial stability is more crucial now than ever.

  • Harnessing Connections: Online Centres Network and DevicesDotNow

    24/04/2020 · Our thoughts

    Harnessing Connections: Online Centres Network and DevicesDotNow

    Researcher Joseph Chambers discusses how we can use the connectivity of the online centres network to reach vulnerable and isolated individuals during Covid-19.

  • Listening to our Online Centres Network

    06/04/2020 · Our thoughts

    Listening to our Online Centres Network

    James Richardson, Research Manager at Good Things Foundation, explains how we're responding to the needs of the network during Covid-19.