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Online Basics

Emma – getting her City & Guilds in Online Basics

Start your own online learner journey Emma is one of our visitors who has been attending the Lighthouse Project Work Club for a number of months. In the work club she was able to learn new skills and find out many different thinks to help her with job hunting and

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Discover your Online potential – Get online week

Get online week – Monday 13th – Friday 17th October 2014 The digital world surrounds us all, and at times it may seem that we can’t escape it. For some this brave new world makes then feel afraid, for others it is all too confusing, or too difficult to do,

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Learning computer skills changes lives

Getting online gives pensioner a new ‘outlet in life’ The Lighthouse Project is a UKonline Centre and we help people learn computer skills that help improve their lives and their ability to connect with the world. Here is a Case study from another UKonline Centre that shows how these simple

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Nino – I am now very happy

I could not work a computer until I came to the Lighthouse Project, the staff are very good and help you to learn how to use a computer. I am now very happy because I have started doing my own job searches, sending CV’s, etc. which I could not do

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Start Something Special

Job seekers start something new online in Middleton Unemployed people from in and around Middleton have been taking part in the national Start something campaign over the last few weeks, as they get to grips with computers and the internet to help them back into work. Start something is challenging

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Learn Computers the easy way

Online basics is a great way for you to get started with computers and gain the skills and confidence that you need to start using a computer and the internet. What’s in it for me? Online Basics is an easy-to-access online course which has been designed for online beginners just like

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Spring online with us!

We provide free beginners courses to help you learn computing & the internet. These courses are running all the time whenever the centre is open, Monday to Friday between 10am – 4pm. Spring online is a national campaign to highlight the use of computers and to let people know where

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Age is no barrier to getting online – hear Jim’s story

Jim Catterson, 79, is a recenlty retired auctioneer who never thought that he would get to grips with using a computer or the internet. His family are all confident at using computers and his son is even a CEO of a large computer company, but it was his granddaughter using her computer

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Go-On, come and have a go at getting online

July sees the national launch of the new Go-On web site [go-on.co.uk] which is aimed at helping people to get more out of life online. There are nine million people in the UK who have never used a computer, don’t have access to one, or don’t know how to get online,

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Maureen Ratcliffe

“The Lighthouse Project computer courses do what they say in helping you. They give you confidence and get rid of the fear of computers. I have found this after only two visits. They take you through everything at your own pace, and in my case extremely slow.” Maureen Ratcliffe

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