Digital Inclusion

In 2022, we developed a one-off funding initiative — the Digital Inclusion Fund — to address digital exclusion experienced by disabled people and people with mental health challenges.

Six funded partners working across the county received funding to develop innovative approaches aimed at improving digital access and digital confidence.

The programme has now come to an end.

The Digital Inclusion Fund Learning Report shares what Barnwood Trust learned about funding for social change through the design and delivery of the Digital Inclusion Fund (DIF). DIF was Barnwood Trust’s first themed funding programme and an important step in our ambition to work as a social change funder. We moved away from traditional grant-making towards a test-and-learn approach grounded in relationships, learning, and accountability to people with lived experience.

This report sits alongside the Digital Inclusion Fund Closing the Digital Divide report, which documents the outcomes and impact of the six funded projects for individuals, communities, the organisations themselves, and the wider system.