Kingston Voluntary Action (Superhighways) is recruiting Digital Champions!
 
This is an excellent opportunity to build your organisation’s capacity to support Kingston residents' digital inclusion and address barriers such as low digital skills, lack of access to devices, and data poverty. 

We’ll run a training and support programme for volunteers from Kingston’s voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector to upskill volunteers or staff to become Digital Champions.
 
Digital Champions’ Role:

As a Digital Champion, you’ll be supporting residents (your clients or community members) with issues they may be facing with digital and, therefore, missing out on better employment opportunities, access to key information and services, along with the wider benefits many of us take for granted from being online.

It’s a varied role- one minute, you may be explaining how to better use Google search; the next, helping someone find and install an app on an iPhone; and the next, setting up an email account, retrieving a lost password, or giving tips to stay safe and avoid scams. Each day is different, full of tech surprises and great opportunities to help take the frustration out of digital and device use for the people you work with and support so they can get things done.
 
Training: 

Digital Champions will receive 4 in-person training sessions in July:  2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd, 10am to 1pm to:
 

• understand the challenges in supporting people with technology
• develop a person-centred approach over a technical one
• practice and develop skills to assess and assist learners both remotely and in-person

To register for the training programme, please click here:  Book Here Digital Champions Training.

The Digital Champion training programme will take place on:

2nd and 9th July 2024

10:00 – 13:00

Canbury Works, Canbury Business Park Units 5-7, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 6HJ.

16th and 23rd July 2024

10:00 – 13:00

Quaker Centre, Fairfield East, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2PT.

It is important that you commit to attending the entire programme, which includes four in-person sessions, three online follow-up sessions,

and provide support to at least 4 Kingston residents.

A certificate of attendance will be provided.

If you have missed the taster sessions, here's a recording of last week’s taster session, password: DCT@ster1