Digivan
Digivan brings IT and employment training to CBHA and Waltham Forest residents
The primary aim of the Digivan is to make information technology and quality advice and guidance on employment and training available to unemployed disadvantaged groups in London - therefore helping those disadvantaged to gain work.
Additionally the scheme supports e-Inclusion - giving socially and economically excluded groups access to the internet and related services.
Staffed by employment and training professionals, CBHA’s Digivan operates across London Borough of Waltham Forest. In addition, a number of other Digivans are operated at various sites across London by Peabody Trust - a member of the Peabody Group with CBHA - including Westminster, Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth and Tower Hamlets.
The Digivan helps users to become familiar with a classroom environment and, in addition to providing training, gradually introduce users to mainstream education centres in their local area.
The Digivan will regularly park outside identified Job Centres to deliver job search support to the long-term unemployed referred by JobCentre officers - who do not have the time and facilities to offer this service themselves.
The Digivan is helping CBHA to ensure that it continues to make a valid contribution to targeting the most deprived areas and to assist and engage local people in the community into work and education.
Through its outreach work, the Digivan is partly funded by Equal, a European Union programme which works in partnership with UK and European partners to demonstrate the effectiveness of using a social and community regeneration approach, to supporting employment aims for disenfranchised local people through a number of methods.
