Digital learning & skills

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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.

  • 19/07/2024

    The Digital Skills Pathway for Shared Prosperity

    With funding from the UK Government's Community Renewal Fund, we piloted our Digital Skills Pathway approach - addressing inequalities through partnership working and enabling local communities to thrive in the online world.

  • 02/07/2024

    An evaluation of the Future Digital Inclusion programme

    The Future Digital Inclusion (FDI) programme was funded by the Department for Education from 2014-2019 to support more than 1 million people to learn basic digital skills.

  • 02/07/2024

    Improving digital skills for employability

    From 2018-2019 we undertook intensive research to understand the digital skills landscape, and support people facing significant disadvantages to overcome barriers and learn digital skills to boost employability.

  • 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.

  • 04/01/2022

    An evaluation of the Making It Click programme, funded by Google.org

    Making It Click was a programme targeting those who have made the move online but only use the internet in limited due to low digital skills. As a result, over 25,000 people were supported to learn new digital skills and 27% entered employment.

  • 07/07/2020

    Enhancing the health & wellbeing of people with dementia through digital

    This report explores how basic digital skills and community-based support can improve the health and wellbeing of people with dementia and their carers or families.

  • 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.

  • 04/03/2022

    An evaluation of the DCMS Digital Lifeline Fund programme

    This evaluation report shares insights from the Digital Lifeline Fund programme, which supported 5,500 digitally excluded people with learning disabilities to access devices, data and digital support.

  • 17/03/2020

    Supporting digital inclusion for adults with low English language skills

    We set out to learn from existing research and from the expertise of community-based tutors to test insights and co-produce ideas on supporting adults with low English language skills to use digital.

  • 20/03/2018

    Approaches to supporting people in later life online

    Explore our report with the Centre for Ageing Better on supporting older adults online, uncovering the reasons behind their digital behaviour and new support strategies.

  • 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.

  • 11/06/2019

    Improving financial capability for low-income households through digital skills

    This report summarises research exploring challenges for support to improve digital skills for low-income households in financial difficulties, and initial recommendations on how to overcome these.

  • 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.

  • 24/03/2025

    Understanding Digital Exclusion in the West of England

    Good Things Foundation, Cosmic, Better Places, and University of Liverpool used a combination of research and stakeholder engagement to produce a snapshot of issues, provision, and opportunities to improve digital inclusion in the West of England.

  • 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.

  • 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

    Basic Digital Skills: 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 how essential digital skills can be delivered to grow the economy, and ensure opportunities for all citizens.