Spring Online | with Silver Surfers' Day

Let's make Spring Online 2012 the biggest and best digital inclusion campaign ever!

Spring Online is Digital Unite’s award-winning campaign to give older people a taste of computers and the internet. Last year, Spring Online helped an incredible 50,000 older people get online at 2,500 events around the country. We’d like to thank everyone who took part and helped to make the campaign such a huge success.

We’re now planning for Spring Online 2012 which will take place from 23-27 April. It’s your chance to help older people get to grips with computers and the internet by holding taster sessions in your community. These can be held anywhere from your living room to classrooms, pubs or libraries. It’s up to you how you organise your event – but we’ll support you all the way with a marketing toolkit and extensive online resources. So put the date in your diary – and come back soon to register your event on the website. See last year's finalists

Keep learning with Digital Unite’s Learning Zone

If our Spring Online with Silver Surfers’ Day campaign has ignited your interest in computers and the internet, then why not learn more with Digital Unite’s Learning Zone.
Around 160 easy to follow guides are available to view online or download. The guides cover a whole range of subjects, from getting started on a computer and using Skype, to sending emails, social networking and browsing the internet.
It really is easy when you know how.

Find out more here: Learning Zone »

Create an e-card on the Springboard

If you do one thing at your taster sessions, why not show your participants the Springboard. It’s a new activity designed for beginners to create their first e-card and post it on a virtual map of the UK - and it helps with practising mouse and keyboard skills along the way. You can continue to use it any time with people who are learning about computers and the internet.

It’s top of the list on the taster sessions page, alongside other great ideas to try out in your sessions - any time of the year.

Find out more here: Taster Session Ideas »

Latest Updates:

"As one of the key opportunities this year to engage older people in digital technology I encourage as many people as possible to get involved.” Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State, Work and Pensions

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Your Spring Online event

Are you planning to run a digital taster session for older or less confident learners this year? We’ll be offering some great ideas and resources to help make your sessions a success. To get you started, take a look at these great ideas for things to do in a taster session.

Working in partnership

Spring Online is delivered by Digital Unite. We work with partners including the Department for Work and Pensions, BBC, UK online centres, Race Online 2012 and Age UK to ensure we make a real difference to older people’s lives.