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HUBS Home | Home Text Only | What is HUBS? | HUBS Drop In | Mobile Training | HUBS News | Contact us | How you can help us A stepping stone to new opportuinities Help Us Be Successful is an innovative training programme which brings new opportunities to people not catered for by existing education provision. It is based in Sussex, UK and funded by the UK Government, SUN Microsystems and other supporters The project introduces people to computing technology in an informal setting, and encourages them to develop new skills and confidence. We use a flexible, incremental approach to learning, which helps people to develop new skills to reflect their own interests and abilities. We focus on content creation -- pictures, words, videos, music, sounds, web pages, etc. -- as a means of engaging the interest of people who may not be interested in traditional education opportunities. September 1999 Project launched by Employment Minister Big Issue vendors, community workers, the Mayor of Brighton & Hove, the UK CEO of SUN Microsystems, local councillors, MPs and 50 other guests joined Employment Minister Rt Hon Andrew Smith, MP in celebrating the launch of HUBS at Community Base, Brighton on 23 September. The event marked the formal launch of HUBS, following several months of pilot work with Big Issue and the Hangleton and Knoll Community Project. The mobile cybercafe was on hand to provide online access and plenty of networking and flesh-pressing took place over a buffet lunch. Andrew Smith MP said he believed the project was an example of the innovative initiatives needed to bridge the potentially divisive effects of the information age. August 1999 Big Issue pilot is a great success Over the past few months we have been visiting the Big Issue offices in Brighton to get to know everyone there a little better. We take some laptops, which can be attached to the internet, a few bits of software and whatever else people ask for that we can provide. The drop in sessions give vendors, staff and volunteers a chance to set up and check email, surf the net, play with the software and generally get their hands on the computers, often for the first time. We started by working with just a handful of vendors and it's been very popular, with a regular crew coming along every week. Everyone enjoys the sessions, and most people want to surf the net, looking for information, news about South Park and pictures of distant family. For example Ken has started manipulating images in Photoshop, whilst Rambo is composing a Millennium Rave Anthem using Total e-Jay software (headphones are now top of the shopping list). Several people want to learn more about things such as web design and the next step is to offer more structured sessions from the end of September. We will also continue running the drop in sessions in the Offices every Tuesday afternoon. Sometime in the not too distant The Big Issue will be moving to far better accommodation, and a computer drop-in centre will be set up as a partnership with HUBS. Snaps of Big Issue Vendors volunteers and staff were taken at the Brighton Big Issue Office with the new digital camera on 31 August 1999. More pics hereWill
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SCIP is working with The Big Issue and Hangleton and Knoll Community Project, Hove to provide opportunities for the people they work with.
HUBS received capital funding from the Government Office of the South East through its Skills Challenge Programme. HUBS Home | Home Text Only | What is HUBS? | HUBS Drop In | Mobile Training | HUBS News | Contact us | How you can help us
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