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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 Brighton & Hove, UK and funded by the UK Government, SUN Microsystems and other supporters

There are two key parts to our work:

A drop in centre run with Big Issue:

Vendors have access to a training suite in the Big issue offices in central Brighton. They can get online, build web sites, produce a newsletter and get help and training in using the computers;

A mobile training suite:

We take a network of laptops out to community centres. They can all be put online and we teach basic computing skills, web site design and other stuff.

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.

HUBS launched by Employment Minister

Will HUBS turn us all into Fat Boy Slim?
The first Hangleton & Knoll Virtual Festival

Getting out on the street:
Working with The Big Issue

New work at the Young People's Centre

New funds for HUBS

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HUBS is managed by Sussex Community Internet Project

SCIP is working with The Big Issue and Hangleton and Knoll Community Project, Hove to provide opportunities for the people they work with.

HUBS is supported by Sun Microsystems

HUBS received capital funding from the Government Office of the South East through its Skills Challenge Programme.

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September 1999

Project launched by Employment Minister

Andreww SMith, Mayor and Big issue group

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.

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August 1999

Ken and Rambo

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. Ken, (top picture on right) has started manipulating images in Photoshop, whilst Rambo (left) is composing a Millennium Rave Anthem using Total e-Jay software (headphones are now top of the shopping list).

More structured sessions will run from the end of September but we will continue running the drop in sessions in the Offices every Tuesday afternoon.

The Big Issue is moving to better accommodation in November, and a drop-in centre will be set up as a partnership with HUBS.

See more pics here