{"id":5297,"date":"2024-03-28T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:20:57","slug":"digital-skills-hub-in-boscombe-wins-prestigious-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/digital-skills-hub-in-boscombe-wins-prestigious-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Skills Hub in Boscombe wins prestigious national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1365px;margin-left: calc(-5% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-5% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.375%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.375%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:2.375%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:2.375%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:2.375%;--awb-spacing-left-small:2.375%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>At a special ceremony at The House of Lords on March 13, the Digital Skills Hub in Boscombe was selected as a winner in the \u2018Let\u2019s Celebrate Towns\u2019 awards for the work they are doing to benefit the community. The awards, run by Visa and supported by the British Retail Consortium, showcase and celebrate hundreds of towns across the UK that are helping businesses and communities to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Skills Hub, which opened in July 2023 and operates in partnership with Dorset Local Enterprise (LEP), was up against ten finalists in the \u2018People &amp; Skills\u2019 category and were selected as overall category winners. This makes Boscombe just one of seven other towns nationwide selected as winners. The award includes \u00a315,000 prize money that will be used to fund projects to further uplift and upskill the Boscombe community.<\/p>\n<p>Kaoutar Addi, Project Lead for the Digital Skills Hub, said: \u201cIt\u2019s thanks to our funding partners\u2014Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council\u2014that since our launch we have delivered a wide range of initiatives including \u2018Community Connect Tuesdays\u2019, digital skills workshops and specialist sessions for those whom English is not their first language. We are also working to help small local businesses through our free \u2018Business Connect Monday\u2019 sessions to help share advice and guidance. We plan to use the prize funding to bring together Boscombe\u2019s people and businesses by re-investing it directly back into a series of community-led projects under the theme of \u2018Digital Futures\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning the \u2018Visa \u2013 Let\u2019s Celebrate Towns\u2019 award will help shine a light on Boscombe and its diverse and creative community,\u201d said Rebecca Davies, Head of Skills Strategy at Dorset LEP. \u201cWe are proud of the difference the Digital Skills Hub is making to Boscombe by actively enhancing digital literacy, boosting employability and helping people to confidently engage with the digital world in a safe and welcoming space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the Digital Skills Hub and what\u2019s on visit their website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalskillshub.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>28\/03\/2024<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourdorset.org.uk\/innovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}