Go ON Give an Hour

Heard about Give an Hour? Want to give yours?

It's great that you want help someone discover the wonders of the web! Find out how and join the UK’s growing network of digital champions at www.go-on.co.uk/champions, where you'll also find heaps of l ocal opportunities and helpful tools.

Want to help as an organisation?

It's not too late to take part!

Please use your comms channels to urge your audiences to Give an Hour.

If your school wants to get involved, click here

Simple things your organisation can do...

Continued support of this campaign is shown by partners who adopt the Go ON Give an Hour messages.

Even if your organisation does just these three things, it could make a huge difference:

Use key messages to encourage people to join the UK’s growing network of digital champions at www.go-on.co.uk/champions
Highlight how internet beginners can find a local internet taster session by calling freephone 0800 77 1234
Post campaign updates on your Facebook pages and on Twitter using the tags #GoON #GiveAnHour, and the short link bit.ly/Give-an-Hour.

What's in the comms toolkit?

Key messages, call to actions, social media handles to use during the campaign
Logos – eps and jpeg format and one page guidance OR download from this Dropbox link now (1MB)
A flash and javascript pledge widget that enables visitors to make their pledge without leaving your site.*

Comms toolkit

You could also add the pledge counter widget to your site. It shows the total number of hours pledged so far is available on the right or from www.raceonline2012.org/digital-champion-widget.*

Thanks to our partners UK online centres, Engine , WeClickMedia and BBC for helping to produce this toolkit.

Give an Hour in schools

We've created a Give an Hour pack for schools, teachers and parents, stuffed with ideas and info on how to get behind the campaign. This includes:

Key messages for schools
Top Give an hour tips for children
A letter to Head teachers from Martha outlining how and why schools can get involved
An introduction to Give an hour for teachers
A letter introducing Give an hour for parents
Give an Hour assembly presentation

Schools pack

You may also be interested in these intergenerational vid eos from BBC News School Reporters. If you or a teacher you know uses TES, the resources are also available there (Go ON Digital Champions).

Great support pledged to date

Running from 22 October - 12 November, the frst phase of the Go ON Give an Hour campaign delivered an estimated:

60 hours of Give an Hour content delivered across 40 BBC local radio stations and in the nations
9.25M national and regional print opportunities to see (please see PR annex)
50k people get to grips with the web at Go ON events supported by UK online centres

Read the Go ON Give an Hour press release for the full breakdown of partner activity

Please consider the resources you’d like to use in line with your comms plans and Race Online 2012 promise. For regular updates, please sign up to our newsletter or contact laura@raceonline2012.org to tell us about your plans or for more info.
Give an Hour is part of our plan to mobilise thousands of digital champions by June 2012

*If you can't access the toolkit, please contact emily@raceonline2012.org to request additional files.