Grant Fund Recipients 2024
The eight winning projects to receive grants from the Time After Time fund are:
Single Homeless Project has been awarded a grant for a project providing tailored digital skills training and rehomed devices to people experiencing homelessness. The devices will help people to access essential online services such as applying for jobs, locating food banks, booking medical appointments, and contacting loved ones.
SOFEA will repair and upgrade second-hand smartphones, laptops, and tablets and provide them to disadvantaged young people across Oxfordshire, along with training to improve their skills to help them get into work.
Coventry City Council’s #CovConnects programme will use an their grant to run a device lending bank to distribute end-of-life council devices to people in need across the city to help them get online.
The devices will be powered by free O2 mobile data from the National Databank (set up by Virgin Media O2 and Good Things Foundation, and is like a foodbank but free O2 mobile data, text and calls), and the initiative will provide digital skills training, too. The University of Warwick will also carry out research into how circularity can address the climate crisis and support digital inclusion.
The Green Alliance’s grant will support the charity’s research project into redistributing e-waste to tackle digital exclusion and will create a series of policy recommendations for government.
Screen Share UK’s grant will fund a laptop repair skills training programme and provide refurbished devices to more than 500 refugees and asylum seekers across the UK. This will help them to access essential online websites, such as booking medical appointments, accessing benefits, training and job opportunities, and to connect with loved ones.
Charity Giroscope has been awarded a grant to expand their project which rehomes refurbished donated computers, laptops, and smartphones with people in need across Hull, and provides skills and work experience for neurodivergent young people.
Power 2 Connect will recycle, refurbish, and redistribute donated smartphones, laptops, and tablets to people who need them across Wandsworth. The charity will also hold digital skills training sessions to help people use their gifted devices.
The Making Room will use their grant to run the Blackburn Repair Space project which will rehome hundreds of unwanted laptops with young people who are digitally excluded, and provide digital skills and laptop repair training sessions to help get them into work.