Here you can learn more about BT’s working relationships, programmes and success stories from around the regions.
BT Regions and our colleagues across BT work with many agencies and organisations involved in supporting small businesses to help raise the level of businesses’ understanding of the role and benefits of ICT.
[32Kb] : For Ian Leonard, selling blankets at festivals quickly turned into a highly successful e-commerce venture after BT helped to hook East Martin, Hampshire, onto the broadband grid. [27Kb] : A north east Hampshire oceanographic and environmental instrumentation business with a diverse number of suppliers from the West Coast of America to Japan, found it essential to have access to communications technology that is not just highly flexible and robust, but always on. [29Kb] : Prominent PR Consultant, Penelope James, was able to realise her dream of living and working in the country after BT upgraded the local exchange of a small village in Kent. The availability of broadband across the UK has transformed the way people work. There are increasing opportunities for people to work from home and many can mix working from different locations – home, office and other locations – to reduce the need to travel with benefits to themselves, their organisations and the environment.
BT and its people have been leading the way in exploiting these new ways of working, and we are now helping others do the same.
[19Kb] is amongst BT’s unique home workers as a carer. [18Kb], flexible working is the ideal option to create a better work-life balance, despite regular travel. [19Kb], it was personal circumstances that caused her to look at working from home. [32Kb]: By putting the necessary broadband infrastructure in place, BT has helped flexible workers across Hampshire reduce their impact on the environment. [29Kb] realise its vision of making broadband the norm for communities and hundreds of businesses across the county. [46Kb] aimed at stimulating a new culture of flexible working that will sharpen the region’s economic competitiveness, improve lifestyles and aid the battle against climate change. In our digital age, access to ICT can improve peoples' lives, opening doors to education, jobs, entertainment and improving family contact. Even simple communications technology – broadband connected PCs – can help close the social divide that threatens to marginalise under-represented groups and communities. And so we continue to invest in digital inclusion programmes like these.
[34Kb] is an innovative programme that has been unlocking the power of technology for Wales’s most deprived communities. [30.3Kb] to tap into a host of new talent after making broadband access a reality. [435Kb] community safety portal is an innovative community based crime reduction project based on local working partnerships.To view the downloads on this page you may need some software. This can be obtained by following the link below.
