Fundamental to our mission is giving our members the opportunity to learn from the incredible work already underway.
Here coalition members tell us about the progress they’re making in improving the digital capability and confidence of their workforce and communities, and what they’re learning along the way.
Travis Perkins plc: A ‘pay it forward’ approach with people at the heart
Travis Perkins plc is using apprentices as digital champions, encouraging digital learning for colleague’s personal and professional lives.
Cornwall Council: Removing ‘digital’ from digital training
Cornwall Council flipped digital training on
its head to focus on job-specific needs and
frustrations, with digital as the hidden solution.
HMRC: Removing barriers to learning
HMRC used on-demand learning, reserved learning time, and short flexible sessions to make it easier for staff to take up digital training.
Essential digital skills in action: A Dorset library success story
Hear from James about how his essential
digital skills training is benefitting himself, his colleagues and the people he serves.
Nationwide: Driving digital confidence through essential digital skills
Read how Nationwide embedded digital confidence and self-led learning through bitesize content, on-demand access, hands-on learning and strategic awareness campaigns.
Digital growth, personal progress: Billy’s Barclays journey
Hear from Billy about how the development
of his Essential Digital Skills has led to career
progression and a new confidence.
Opening new worlds: How Caroline transformed her life with digital skills at Lloyds
Hear from Caroline Mbagaya about how her essential digital skills training has hugely benefitted her at work and at home.
Dorset’s Workplace Digital Champions
Dorset County Council originally established its Digital Workplace Champions in 2017. At a time before MS Teams and virtual meet ups were in place, the champions would meet monthly and focus on how to start utilising new Microsoft tools.The challenge In April 2019,...
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
In July 2022 Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), in partnership with FutureDotNow, hosted a senior leader’s roundtable to focus on the ‘hidden middle’ – the c. 23.4 million people in the UK who are online but lack the Essential Digital Skills (EDS) for work...
Growth for Good: Made Smarter
The Growth Company in Greater Manchester delivers the Made Smarter programme to SMEs in the North West of England. The team recognised that culture and leadership were often the biggest barriers to digital change. Their Leadership programme, Leading Digital...
