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  • 10/07/2025

    Our Digital Nation

    What is the state of the UK's digital divide? Each year, Good Things Foundation gathers new facts and stats to reveal the reality of digital exclusion.

  • 02/07/2024

    Internet Access: Essential Utility or Human Right?

    Data Poverty Lab Fellow, Shade Nathaniel-Ayodele, argues that we need to reframe internet access as an essential utility and a human right. Read the report.

  • 05/07/2024

    Scaling solutions to data poverty in the UK

    Data Poverty Lab Fellow Kat Dixon explores what data poverty is, how it manifests in people's daily lives, current solutions available & how we can collectively scale these solutions.

  • 17/03/2024

    The Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households with Children

    A collaborate research project with University of Liverpool, funded by Nuffield Health, revealed the Minimum Digital Living Standard that people need to participate in our modern world. Read the report.

  • 12/04/2023

    Data Poverty Lab report: addressing data poverty for care-experienced young people

    Written by Data Poverty Lab Fellows, Dr Becky Parry and Charlotte Elliott, this report explores how data poverty impacts care-experienced young people - and how it puts them at risk of missing out on creative opportunities.

  • 22/09/2020

    Blueprint to fix the digital divide: government action for recovery

    As we emerged from the pandemic, we urged the Government to prioritise digital inclusion so that everyone could access affordable internet & local digital skills support.

  • 12/12/2020

    Everyone Connected

    A report of the key findings from the Everyone Connected project, which gets devices, data and skills to digitally excluded households.

  • 18/09/2024

    Digital inclusion: What the main UK datasets tell us

    This comprehensive read offers an overview of the main UK datasets on digital inclusion. It is a collaboration by Good Things Foundation, Lloyds Banking Group, Nominet, and University of Liverpool.

  • 21/11/2024

    Power Up 2.0 Impactful digital inclusion: People, provision, and place

    Our report celebrates the success of a model that supports digital inclusion alongside employability and financial inclusion, ensuring sustained delivery beyond the life of the project.

  • 25/11/2024

    Supporting people with data connectivity (Broadband and mobile data)

    This guide is for charities, community groups and organisations which reach and support people who are struggling to afford the internet because of poverty and the cost of living.

  • 25/11/2024

    Supporting people with data connectivity (Broadband and mobile data)

    This guide is for charities, community groups and organisations which reach and support people who are struggling to afford the internet because of poverty and the cost of living.

  • 09/12/2024

    Exploring the relationship between deep poverty and digital exclusion

    Trussell Trust and Good Things Foundation commissioned WPI Economics to review the evidence base on the links between digital exclusion and deep poverty in the UK.

  • 11/02/2025

    What is the Minimum Digital Living Standard?

    What do people need to feel digitally included? Watch the new animation launched for Safer Internet Day 2025.

  • 18/06/2025

    Tackling Data Poverty: Innovation and collaboration

    This report, the latest from the Data Poverty Lab, explores the role of innovation - both technological and systemic - in tackling data poverty. By Dr Sarah Knowles with Dr Emma Stone.

  • 17/07/2025

    Exploring the links between digital inclusion and physical activity

    We worked in partnership with Sport England to carry out research to understand the links between digital inclusion and physical activity.

  • 23/01/2025

    Access: Expert Overview - August 2024

    In August 2024, Good Things Foundation brought together around 100 experts and practitioners from a range of sectors for a series of roundtable discussions to help to form ideas to drive action on digital inclusion. This paper summarises the expert overview provided to participants ahead of the roundtable so that they had an understanding of key insights and practice from the UK and elsewhere. Specifically this paper focuses on citizens’ access barriers to using the internet to benefit their lives.