About the Digital Champions Network

The free Gloucestershire Digital Champions Network was launched in 2025 to bring together Digital Champions from across the county, and organisations who support them.

The network has been co-designed with a wide range of people working to increase Digital Inclusion, with common goals of empowering communities, creating links between people and places, creating peer support opportunities and, importantly, rewarding hard work and sense of achievement. 

Organisational Support

If you are an organisation hosting Digital Champions, we can help you to assess skills and find areas for development for Digital volunteers. We have access to online training materials, along with a regular bulletin, containing stories of Digital Champions and tips and tricks to keep us all up to date in this swiftly evolving world. We can support with volunteer processes including DBS and safeguarding and it’s all free for organisations and volunteers.

Become a Digital Champion

Thousands of people across Gloucestershire have never used the internet. Being a Digital Champion can be as simple as knowing how to download an app, send photos or fill in an online form.   

You certainly don’t need to be an IT expert to share your skills with family, friends and local connections.  If you want to find out more about becoming a Digital Champion contact us for a chat.

The DCN offers:
• Face to face / online meetings
• Face to face training
• Access to online resources & info
• Regular bulletins

Join the mailing list to receive news and updates and share your feedback to help us shape the support we offer:

Previous Bulletins

Together, we can create a nurturing, supportive peer network of people working to decrease the digital divide.

Going the extra mile as a Digital Champion

“Someone arranged to come in for help to scan photos. I know that the library photocopier/printer could be used as a scanner, so spent a bit of time finding out how it worked beforehand.

When they arrived for the Computer Buddy session, I took time to find out exactly what she wanted to do. She had a stack of family photos and wanted to scan and send to friends and family. Although her tablet could be used for this purpose, she wanted them to be steady and high-quality, so we settled on using the photocopier.

This was going to be quite a complicated process, and I thought it would be helpful if I could document it for her so that she could return and work independently. The library didn’t have any usable documentation for the photocopier so I decided to make my own guide. I took photos of the process with my phone during the first session and later arranged them with suitable text in a Word document.”