I spent Saturday afternoon in North Clapham working with S&G Training to get some Family Mosaic tenants online for the first time. Angus from Mosaic and Hayley from S&G have a five week programme to get a group of about 30 older people online for the first time. S&G provide training to companies and this gives them the space to help charities too. S&G and Mosaic have worked with about a dozen local young people to give them IT training skills and help them set up their own training company. Saturday was the kick off day – we all had great fun as the young trainers gave basic presentations on what computers are and got to know the peple they will be training. Nicky and Mike from talk about local had already trained Hayley and her trainers via Webex to create simple site local websites in wordpress.com. We like working with housing providers – they have great links on the ground and understand how important it is to have an independent local voice. I gave a talk on how you can use local websites to tell local stories. We then split up into groups to talk about what people liked about their area and what they would improve. The trainers will use the material as seed corn for posts on a new hyperlocal site Angus set up. There were some wonderful reminiscences a few of which I got on video below (forgive the odd sound problem – the new mic was playing up…).
When the rent was £2 three shillings and sixpence
The Brixton ambassador
Balancing long term needs with a transient community
Changes since the 1980s – let’s have a community centre
Jobs for kids that didn’t do well at school
