When the clocks go back on October 30, why not use the extra hour to help transform someone’s life by showing them the wonders of the web?
Race Online 2012 encourages Britain’s 30 million internet users to ‘Give an Hour’ to help a friend, family member or neighbour to take their first steps online.
‘Go ON Give an Hour’ campaign runs from October 22 to November 12 and aims to encourage and support the UK to become a networked nation.
There will be taster sessions and special events for internet beginners if they can’t find someone to help them and want to try it out. If you know someone who might benefit from a local internet taster session, you can give them the freephone number 0800 77 1234.
Learning IT skills helps people keep in touch, get jobs and saves the average household around £560 a year from shopping and paying bills online – yet 8.7 million UK residents have never used the internet.
New Forest District Council’s chief executive, Dave Yates, said: “The council is helping to promote this important national campaign as many of our local services and much information is now accessible online.”
Race Online 2012, a government-backed scheme, now has more than 1200 national partners who have promised to recruit around 200,000 local digital champions from the pool of 30 million in the UK who use the internet every day.
So now’s your chance to help someone you know get online; it could change their life. Pledge your hour at www.go-on.co.uk/giveanhour
