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Middleton Heartline learning how to get online

Spreading the Word As part of the national Spring Online initiative and the local Get Middleton Online Initiative members of the Lighthouse Project team and Groundworks dropped in to the Middleton Arena to provide some advice and support to the members of Middleton Heartline about how easy it is to

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Spring Online with Silver Surfers day

Spring Online with Silver Surfers’ Day (16-20 May) 4 weeks to go and counting! There are just four weeks to go until Spring Online with Silver Surfers’ Day, we will be running a number of events at the Lighthouse as a part of the national campaign that aims to get older people using computers

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It’s official – being online makes you happy!

It’s official – being online makes you happy! On Monday, we released some research that again links being online with being happy – and what better way to encourage your learners to take their first leap with computers and the internet! Our survey discovered that 87% of people thought their

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Lighthouse volunteer Mike Lloyd makes The Times

Mike Lloyd is one of our long standing volunteers who has been working with us even before our centre was opened in the Warwick Mill, in fact he helped quite a bit when we were converting the premises from a derelict warehouse to a friendly community drop-in centre. When opened

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Get more out of life online in 2011

Go ON – could you get more out of life online in 2011. It’s a New Year, and as a UK online centre we are setting people a new challenge – to make going online one of their New Year’s Resolutions! The Go ON get more out of life online

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Get online week – 9 million not online

Martha Lane fox interview with Lorraine – click this link – getonline Nine million people nationwide are still not on line, according to a survey out today The report which forms part of a national “Get On Line” week also reveals more than half of the elderly surveyed have never used

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