Charity partnerships

Charity partnerships

Digital Outreach Ltd, the community outreach partnership working on behalf of Digital UK to support the switchover programme, will provide information, advice and materials to people who are not eligible for assistance under the Switchover Help Scheme but may benefit from extra advice.

Digital Outreach will work with local and regional voluntary and community organisations in the first four switchover regions to ensure that people get the support they need.

www.digitaloutreach.org.uk

Digital Outreach will mobilise local charities in each transmitter area, giving them the resources to support their local communities through switchover. Digital Outreach will:

• Distribute information and advice materials to local charities and their clients in the period before switchover;
• Provide switchover training for local charity staff and volunteers;
• Integrate switchover information and advice into relevant local voluntary and community sector activities and into existing home visits when appropriate;
• Organise meetings and events in the period before switchover and drop-in sessions at the time of switchover.

Digital Outreach Ltd is a not-for-profit company set up by Help the Aged, Age Concern, Community Service Volunteers and Collective Enterprises Ltd.