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Community Digital Champions Programme

Digital Champions have launched a new initiative to create a network of Community Digital Champions across Barnsley.

They are making a call out to Community Groups, third sector organisations, or any business that would like to train up their own Digital Champions, to help support their client group to develop their digital skills.  As well as providing training, They can support your organisation to identify opportunities to embed digital skills into your current support offer.

Please see attached flyer and advert for more info.  If you are in a position to do so, please share the image on your social media to promote the offer across Barnsley, and feel free to pass this information on to anyone who you feel would be interested.

Community Digital Champion Programme flyer (PDF, 197 KB)



20 minute training on suicide awareness from the Zero Suicide Alliance, aiming to give people who participate (at their own pace, in their own time) the skills and confidence to help someone who may be considering suicide.

View training here


The Zero Suicide Alliance also have other free, shorter modules available to support people with suicide awareness.

Visit website here


Pre-curser for Post-Diagnostic Dementia Support within the ReCOVERY College Model: A Realist Evaluation (DiSCOVERY), part of a National Institute for Health Research/Health Services and Delivery Research researcher-led stream project

Recovery-colleges-and-dementia-courses-a-scoping-survey-Lowen-Birt-West-2019 (PDF, 113 KB)


NESTA paper on the values and challenges of co-production.

The-Challenge-of-Co-production (PDF, 342 KB)


Centre Forum paper on the role of recovery colleges in the route to employment.

Recovery-Colleges-and-Employment (PDF, 542 KB)