#CovConnects has partnered with the Barclays Digital Champions programme to offer Barclays Digital Champion training sessions for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in Coventry.
These sessions bring people together from different roles in the community and organisations. You’ll all have one thing in common - the same passion for helping people with their digital skills. You don’t need to be a digital expert to become a Digital Champion. We’ll give you all the training, resources and support you need.
The aim of these sessions is to help you become a force for good in your community or organisation, helping bring to life the essential digital skills others need to thrive in the digital world around us. Working alongside other Digital Champions, you'll support our goal to improve digital inclusion across Coventry.
There are 3 sessions in total, each taking place virtually and lasting 90 minutes. Session 1 will be Coventry-specific, meaning that you will be learning with people either solely from your team or a mix of other teams in Coventry. The benefit of this is collaboration and networking with people who may be working towards similar aims and with similar groups of residents.
Signing up to take part is easy. Just register all participants on the Barclays Digital Wings site. Then register to be Digital Champions on the website and pick a date for your first session.
There are currently two options for the first session:
After attending session 1 (Becoming a Digital Champion), you will be able to book onto sessions 2 (Digital Basics) and 3 (Fraud and Scams) whenever suits you. The time it takes you to complete the programme is down to you; Barclays deliver the virtual sessions on a weekly basis and the extra online learning is available 24/7, so you're in control of your own learning journey!
Contact CovConnectsDigital@coventry.gov.uk if you are not able to attend either of these initial sessions and let us know your availability – this will help us to arrange more sessions with Barclays in the near future.