Become a Digital Champion
Fully funded by Barclays
Do you want to help others thrive online? By becoming a Digital Champion today, you'll gain expertise, inspire others and drive digital transformation. Within 20 minutes of essential learning, you'll have the confidence to empower those around you with digital skills.
What is the Digital Champions programme?
Our Digital Champions programme, fully funded by Barclays, supports our mission to help as many people as possible gain the essential digital skills needed to help them thrive in the digital world.
We’ve worked with FutureDotNow to make sure the programme is aligned with our shared ambition of closing the digital skills gap in the UK workforce.
Why become a Digital Champion?
Choosing to become a Digital Champion will help give you a sense of fulfilment and purpose by knowing you’re supporting the UK’s digital inclusion initiatives or embedding a digital first culture within the organisation you work for or the community you live in.
Empower yourself and others
Build skills that make you and others more capable and connected.
Our Digital Champion mission
Help people avoid feeling left out because they're not up to speed with technology.
Share your successes
Whether in your community or in the office, the difference you make is worth talking about.
Once you've completed the induction you'll earn your Digital Champion Essentials badge, unlocking further learning and tools to help you become an effective support to others.
Why not download the badge (by right-clicking and saving the image) and adding it to your signature on email.
Expand your knowledge by exploring other learning, keeping up with trends and being ready for the digital change ahead.
Skills and commitments
To be an effective Digital Champion you'll need to have the capacity to support others and regularly share your contribution in closing the digital divide.
Communication
Problem solving
Listening
Self-development
Open minded
Empathy
Public speaking
Sharing impact
We’ve put together some great learning and resources to help you build your knowledge and confidence, supporting you to go out and support others.
For any Digital Champion under the age of 18, it's important you only deliver sessions to people you already know or are linked to through a group which you currently represent. When representing a third party organisation, you should follow their existing safeguarding policy regarding interactions with members of the public.
Add this to your learning
Please register or log in to start this programme.
