Hello all Minis session attendees and parents/guardians! Our weekly Minis sessions for ages 8-12 will be moving to Tuesdays, starting from our first session in 2026 (the 13th of January). We hope that all of you will be able to keep coming to these sessions, and look forward to seeing you next year!
End of year promotion stuff for our community digital inclusion service...
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Got a teen/young adult who would like to try making stuff like electronics, games, robots, 3D printing, vinyl cutting, photography...
6th December - we have a taster session for 13 - 21's. Try things, come and tell us want you'd like to tinker with.
Tickets are free!
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One of our occasional newsletters has just been sent out to our subscribers but you can also read it here:
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Our staff are set up at the Broomgrove Community Centre (85 Chiltern Dr, Hastings TN34 3PY) for the third of our free drop-in sessions. Stop by before 1pm for free support in using devices, getting bits done online, and some information about saving on your energy bills. Hope to see you there!
We're currently setting up for the Uckfield Care and Support Provider drop in event, held at the Uckfield Civic Centre (TN22 1AE) from 11AM to 2PM today. Come by to see what support is available, and meet local support organisations serving East Sussex. Hope to see you there!
Our staff are set up at the Broomgrove Community Centre (85 Chiltern Dr, Hastings TN34 3PY ) for the second of our free drop-in sessions. Stop by before 1pm for free support in using devices, getting bits done online, and some information about saving on your energy bills. Hope to see you there!
On the 14th of October, we will be attending the Care and support Drop In event at the Uckfield Civic Centre. If you're nearby, come chat to us for information on saving on your energy bills, and/or one to one help with digital jobs.
Book your free tickets at:
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Our staff are set up at the Broomgrove Community Centre (85 Chiltern Dr, Hastings TN34 3PY ) for the second of our free drop-in sessions. Stop by before 1pm for free support in using devices, getting bits done online, and some information about saving on your energy bills. Hope to see you there!
Our staff are all set up at the Broomgrove Community Centre (85 Chiltern Dr, Hastings TN34 3PY ) for one of our free drop-in sessions. Stop by before 2.30 for free support in using your devices, getting bits done online, and some information about saving on your energy bills. Hope to see you there!
As well as showing how repurposing reduced e-waste, this tale illustrates why devices alone aren't the answer. Trusted community venues and people are also vital for digital inclusion.
We'd like to share the story of one donated laptop - she is called MORWEN (well, we are the TechResort elves)
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Just with digital exclusion, we saw 300 in year 1, 900 in year 2, over 2000 in year 3 and we're on our way to 2400 this year. Services have a runway. /rant
But, as you say, whatever the service looks like, it has to be properly funded for multiple years to get really running and established. Not canned after a 6month pilot because of unrealistic targets./3
We need to get people out of GP surgeries, not the other way around.Multi-use hubs with co-locating services for people might have a fighting chance of people attending, especially if by attending people are not automatically labelled as 'poor', 'unemployed', 'ex offender', 'dependent' or whatever/2
Quite right. Advice services are best-placed to give that sort of advice. Maybe social prescribers might have been part of the solution but it doesn't seem to be working that way /1
Big shout-out to @sussexcommfound.bsky.social and The Southern Water Goodwill Fund. We now have a grant in place to work with partners in Hastings/St Leonards for digital inclusion, kids' sessions and some work experience!
Like the other people who are there. /end
Also, having a community/neighbourhood space that anyone can come to without being labelled is helpful for the days people would like a bit of support but today they don't want to be seen as 'in food poverty' or 'a recovering...' they just to be a person coming in to get just jobs done /1
Join our elves today at Sustainable Seaford Fair at Seaford Head School. Check out our LEGO robots, drop in a donation or get some help with your tech questions. We're here 12-4pm!
Another generous donation has arrived this morning, this time from Hi-Way services Ltd of Canterbury in Kent. We've already started work on them and we will get them to people who need them as soon as possible.
Thank you Hi-Way. Plenty to keep us busy for sure!
We've done a check of recent donations and with your fantastic generosity we've been able to buy some more phones that we will be able to give out to those who need them.
Thank you so much to all who have donated - you made it possible!
Our free, weekly session on Wednesday evenings for children aged between 8 and 12 are back! Each week we are focusing on different skills. Next session is on 14th May where you can learn how to program a Lego Robot!
Book here:
techresort.org/events/
Booking open until 5pm the day before.
A huge thank you to @blagravetrust.bsky.social for continuing our partnership for the next three years. Funding like this helps us in our mission to give work skills to young people by employing them to deliver digital skills to other young people and to digitally excluded adults.
We're excited to announce that we are resuming our children's sessions! They are a free, weekly session on Wednesdays for children between the ages of 8 and 12. We will focus on different skills, starting with BBC Micro:Bits on the 30th of April at 4.30pm.
Bookings here:
techresort.org/events/
Heck of a day on Friday. Big thank you for your volunteering days, @turn2us.bsky.social we had the pleasure of @seanfirth.uk to help us migrate the @diginclusionkit.bsky.social to a better platform. Then we all went to celebrate the 18th Birthday of an awesome local digital company, Zoonou.
Whilst revenue grant funding pays for our day to day running cost and that's what we need most of, sometimes a grant for capital is vital for small organisations like us when we need to update our tech kit. Read more in our blog post
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Our team all take it in their stride whilst I'm totally gobsmacked at how brilliant they all are. This stuff isn't trivial and it's all essential stuff for members of our community who are required to interact online for basic services. Community-based digital inclusion in action!
Another day at our base where I'm wowed by the skills, kindness, patience and dogged determination of our young team. Today, we've fixed apparently bricked tablet computers, showed a client how to use a touch screen, done some work with Canva and given out a basic phone to someone newly homeless...
Donating a phone or laptop to us doesn't only give a household on a low income and essential device, it also gives our students work experience and we get rid of the waste safely and legally!