# Microsoft announces 30 grants of £2,500 in its Community Learning Awards

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/06/13/microsoft-announces-30-grants-2500-its-community-learning-awards/
- Published: 2006-06-13T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Local UK community groups will be awarded today for their outstanding contribution
to promoting digital inclusion to those in their area. 
The Microsoft Community 
Learning Awards 2006, now in their third year, celebrate the work of 30 organisations
from across the UK. The awards will help the groups continue their work of giving
people within their local communities’ access to vital Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) training.

 

 

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Approximately 400 UK voluntary organisations applied for the grant through the awards
scheme, which is being run for the third year by Microsoft UK Ltd and national charity
Citizens Online. Aimed at community and voluntary groups, the Microsoft Community
Learning Awards seek to help organisations reach people who are currently excluded
from existing IT training and support schemes in their area. The awards scheme hopes
to overcome this barrier to IT training through supporting informal training projects
that introduce ICT to disadvantaged young people and adults in the most appropriate
way.

 

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