Case studies


Here you will find a selection of community groups who have used a BT Community Connections award to help get people online and discover the wonders of the internet.

Atlas Centre

Atlas Centre

The Adult Training, Learning and Support (ATLAS) centre offers training and support to all members of the local community.

 

Breakthrough Youth Project

Breakthrough Youth Project

The Breakthrough Youth Project, an organisation working with disadvantaged young people in Glasgow, is broadening the horizons for many of its members by offering access and training in digital technology.


Bute Connections

Bute Connections

Residents on the beautiful Isle of Bute are celebrating a life changing win with the installation of broadband thanks to BT Community Connections.  

 

Castle Community Network

Castle Community Network

Castle Community Network in Scarborough offers their local community access to the internet and online training services.


Deaf Links

Deaf Links

Deaf Links in Dundee is not just celebrating the opening of their new community hub, but it is also celebrating the arrival of broadband, thanks to BT Community Connections.

 

Games4All

Games4All

Games4All, a youth and community group in Birmingham set up by young people supports mainly those from the Asian community who are on low incomes or unemployed.


Gloucester Old People’s Association

Gloucester Old People’s Association

Members of the Gloucester Old People’s Centre Association have shaken off their reservations and are embracing the digital age thanks to BT Community Connections.

Gymnation and the St James City Farm 

Gymnation and St James City Farm

Gymnation and the St James city farm are living proof that the community spirit is alive and well in Gloucester.

 


Havering Association for People with Disabilities

Havering Association for People with Disabilities

The Havering Association for People with Disabilities (HAD) in Hornchurch supplies a vital service to the local community.

 

Honeycroft Under Fives Centre

Honeycroft Under Fives Centre

Honeycroft, a Hove-based charity which provides childcare has been able to help more people get online through BT Community Connections.


Jobchange

Jobchange

Jobchange has been helping the long term unemployed for 27 years, and is now able to increase the number of IT taster classes it offers thanks to a year’s free broadband awarded by BT Community Connections.

 

 

Lisieux Trust

Lisieux Trust

Disability charity, The Lisieux Trust, can now add internet and ICT training to the broad range of services that it provides to local residents in Birmingham.


Llanharan Community Development Project Ltd

Llanharan Community Development Project Ltd

Llanharan Community Development Project was created in 1995 to address the social and educational needs of three former mining villages; Llanharan, Brynna and Bryncae in Wales.  

Momentum Scotland

Momentum Scotland

An organisation which helps people to face the challenge of life with a serious disability has been able to extend the reach of its support thanks to BT Community Connections.


NEKH Welfare Foundation

NEKH Welfare Foundation

Local charity NEKH, set up in 2007 to support young unemployed people from ethnic minorities, is thrilled to have won a year’s free broadband from BT Community Connections.

 

Rainworth and Blidworth Detached Youth Project

Rainworth and Blidworth Detached Youth Project

Rainworth and Blidworth Detached Youth Project (DYP) in Mansfield is a charity which was created to focus exclusively on helping disadvantaged and disengaged young people.

 


Rosetta Arts Centre 

Rosetta Arts Centre

Students at the Rosetta Arts Centre have got more than the London 2012 Olympics to look forward to with the installation of broadband thanks to an award from BT Community Connections.

Siawns Teg

Siawns Teg

Siawns Teg, a charity which provides support and information to the community in Powys, has been able to help local residents get online and learn new skills – with a little help from BT Community Connections.


Thanet Community Development Trust 

Thanet Community Development Trust

Local community group Thanet Community Development Trust (TCDT) is looking forward to welcoming even more internet users to its healthy community café in Ramsgate, since winning a year’s free broadband from the BT Community Connections scheme.

 

Sharon Fox Cancer Centre 

The Sharon Fox Cancer Centre

The Sharon Fox cancer centre in Tamworth is celebrating winning a broadband award from BT Community Connections that will open up the internet to cancer patients as well as their families.

 


Two Saints

Two Saints Ltd

Two Saints Ltd, a charity helping the homeless across Hampshire, West Berkshire and Oxfordshire is thrilled to have won a year’s free broadband connection for its revamped day centre, in Southampton.

 

Voluntary Action Rutland

Voluntary Action Rutland

Voluntary Action Rutland is helping to overcome low levels of IT literacy in Oakham and in the nearby rural community.


Wylye Coyotes Club

Wylye Coyotes Club

Situated in the rural village of Codford, Warminster, an afterschool club is making a real difference to its local community.

 

Young People Cornwall

Young People Cornwall

Young People Cornwall promotes the use of the internet to get more young people online and to encourage this in a safe environment.