Frome Medical Practice provide a drop-in digital support service at the Cheese & Grain café in Frome, every Thursday from 10-11:30am. If you want to chat to our friendly Digital Health Connector this is a good place to start. There is also the opportunity to meet others who are also learning new digital skills.

Spark IT provide a Digital cafe at the Glastonbury Health Connections Talking Cafe every Monday from 10am to 12 noon at St Johns Church, Hight Street Glastonbury, BA6 9DR

You can also find Spark IT in Shepton Mallet library on a Thursday afternoon from 2pm-4pm.

Learn My Way is an easy to use free website that will guide you through basic digital learning using videos, training courses and easy to read guidelines that you can print off. You can learn online at your own pace from home. Health Connections Mendip are registered training centre for Learn My Way. Please enter our Centre ID name Health Connections Mendip or number 8006569 when you first visit the site. Visit the website by clicking here: www.learnmyway.com

If you don’t have a tablet or smartphone device, Health Connections can help you look at options to see if there are any free devices and/or data, devices on loan or places where you can get online for free.  We are working with the UK National data bank and maybe able to distribute  free SIM cards (up to 6 months) with 20GB of data, free texts and calls as part of a project with The Good Things Foundation. We also work alongside Donate IT which is an organisation that refurbishes old tech and then donates to those who need them. Please contact us for further information.

If you are tech savvy and want to support other people by spreading information about support to friends, family and neighbours, you can train as a Digital Community Connector. This programme is on hold at the moment. To find out more contact Health Connections.