On Thursday 8 December 2016, we hosted an event in Sunderland, in conjunction with the Sunderland Partnership, to discuss the barriers to digital inclusion, decide on the priorities and make pledges to transform Sunderland into a truly digital city.

1. Digital Sunderland
Helen Milner OBE, @helenmilner
Chief Executive, Tinder Foundation
8 December 2016

7. Social revolution
• Worklessness
• Loneliness
• Vulnerable
• Complex lives
• Poverty

8. Digital exclusion is
about people
not technology

9. Deep impact at scale
A social movement

10. Meet Bertram

11. …at scale

13. 3,571 for a year

14. 28,571 for
2 million people

15. 92%
Have
improved
their quality
of life
Reduced calls
and visits to
Gov; channel
shift
38%
Savings to Gov due to
channel shift of these
people
£37.4m
Have
progressed
onto jobs or
feel more
employable
62%

16. Deep impact:
A social and digital inclusion charity

17. Simple model for delivering
impact
• A big club with a shared vision
• Digital underpinning this

18. Local
+
digital

20. Digital is a foundation for
wider resilience
Not just about skills
support upfront, builds independent users
enable people to better look after themselves
self efficacy in a digital society
“teach a man to fish”

21. 21
Government
Non Government

23. #digihousing

24. No one organisation can do this alone
• Create a social movement
• Everyone can play a role
• Leave no-one behind

25. Together we can make
good things happen!

26. Thank you