Welcome

BT Community Connections enables community and voluntary groups throughout the UK to get online and make use of information and communication technology (ICT). If you are a community or voluntary organisation that is looking to extend your work through use of the internet and ICT but don't have the means, take a look at the two different awards outlined below that could help you bridge the digital divide.

BT Community Connections

BT Community Connections offers organisations the opportunity to apply for a multi-media internet-ready PC and a contribution towards a year's broadband internet access through BT Total Broadband.

Click here for more information.

STOP PRESS: BT Community Connections will be open for applications on the 24 September.

BT Community Connectors

BT Community Connectors is a new scheme that will enable members of community and voluntary groups to help others understand how information and communications technology (ICT) can make a difference to their everyday lives.  BT Community Connectors will be trained to provide community based ICT coaching.

Applications are now closed.

Why apply?

Benefits fed back from previous award winners include…

• Access to sources of funding
  "Using the BT PC we found details of the Learning and Skills Council funding on the net, applied online and were successful!" (award recipient, Yorkshire)
  
  
• Communication with volunteers and other organisations
  "Having email makes communication with our volunteers 100 per cent easier" (award recipient, Cardiff)
  
  
• Recruitment
  "You can send out flyers till kingdom come and the take up can be disappointing, but students will respond to an email that hits the right buttons" (award recipient, North East)
  
  
• Employment
  "A client in his 40's who is unemployed with mental health problems came on a training course. He learnt how to search and download information and is now working with a local playgroup producing resource material" (award recipient, West Midlands)

News

BT is pleased to announce that five BT Community Connectors have been chosen out of many applications. Community groups and voluntary organisations across the UK we’re invited to ... Read more

BT Community Connections has received a Big Tick from Business in the Community. This is the fourth year running the scheme has received the accreditation which recognises programmes w... Read more

BT Community Connections has been short listed in the Community Relations category of the European PR Sabre Awards. This year’s competition includes: Abu Dhabi Gov... Read more