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New guide promotes digital inclusion in health and care in Wales
Welsh Government, NHS Wales informatics Service and the Wales Co-operative Centre are working together to improve digital inclusion in Wales with the publication of a new guide.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Louise Blackwell – Community Development Officer, ClwydAlyn Housing
Louise Blackwell explains the key to being an effective Digital Leader is to begin with each individuals’ unique requirements by first starting with rudimentary First Click-style courses to get over fears about using technology then explore individuals’ wants, needs and passions.
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Welsh business owners urged to avoid a ‘close shave’ with their company’s future by going employee-owned
A new campaign launches today, on Employee Ownership Day, to encourage more Welsh businesses to consider this progressive and forward looking approach to succession planning.
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£3 million EU funds to support new Social Business Wales project
EU funds totalling £3 million will support a new project which will help create new social businesses across West Wales and the Valleys, the Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport, Lee Waters, has announced.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Scott Tandy – Community Regeneration Officer, Newydd Housing Association
Scott Tandy talks about his time with Newydd Housing Association, supporting tenants to get online, the ‘digital bench’ youth design project for charging devices in public while providing emergency shelter for the homeless, getfit.wales and utilising the ‘Loan IT’ scheme to reduce barriers for access to digital equipment.
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Meet the Digital Leader: Karen Lewis – Director of Engagement and Innovation, Wales Co-operative Centre
Wales Co-operative Centre stalwart Karen Lewis talks about her tenure as Director of Communities and Inclusion and her hopes for promoting digital inclusion in Wales as the newly-appointed Director of Engagement and Innovation and Chair of the Digital Leaders Network in Wales in 2019, focusing on collaborative working among digital leaders.
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New Welsh Government programme to ‘boost people’s digital confidence, health and well-being’
The programme will be delivered by the Wales Co-operative Centre. It will commence on 1 July 2019, and provide digital inclusion training and support to organisations working with older people, people with a limiting long-standing illness, disability or infirmity, unemployed people or vulnerable families so they can help their clients, tenants, customers or service users.
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Why Aardman got creative with its business structure when planning for the future
Aardman co-founder David Sproxton talks about why the Academy Award®-winning studio decided to transition to Employee Ownership
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Social business sector in Wales worth £3bn to the Welsh economy
The ‘Mapping the Social Business Sector in Wales 2019’ report identified a total of 2,022 organisations as operating in the social business sector in Wales, employing around 55,000 people and providing volunteering opportunities to an estimated 58,000 individuals.
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Access to banking: Why do we need a community bank?
In the face of bank branch closures across Wales, how could a community bank help to ensure that communities and small businesses have access to banking services?
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Local community aims to keep village’s ‘heart’ by buying its pub
Residents in Pembrokeshire are urging people to buy a ‘piece of history’ to safeguard a centuries-old pub and create a much-needed community-wide social resource.
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Building a Vision Together – what can social enterprise do for Wales?
Wales needs a strong social enterprise sector to tackle the challenges of the next decade and to seize new opportunities. Wales already has a vibrant and diverse social enterprise sector, but it could do more. We think that Wales should be one of the best places to start and grow a social enterprise and be part of and help build a movement for change.
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