Smartlyte are working in partnership with Hall Green NNS to deliver a series of Digital Skills workshops for staff and volunteers from community organisations. The programme design has been informed by the findings from the Digital surveys that were conducted.

The pandemic has thrown many challenges for community organisations delivering services within the Hall Green NNS Community. Many who deliver face to face services are now challenged with delivering online, remotely or through a blended approach. The objective of this capacity building workshop is to support community organisations to understand and prepare themselves to conduct their business in the digital world.

This workshop forms part of a series of exciting workshops Smartlyte are delivering under the following headings;

User Experience

Transforming Delivery

Planning your Organisations Future

This session will cover a range of low cost and no cost practical tools will be explored in this session to provide inspiration and ideas for participants to transform aspects of their service delivery. Tools covered will include Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Onedrive and Google Drive.

The following topics will be covered:

• The growth of online tools and how they have become a part of our day to day operations in recent times
• Essential tips and tricks to ease and maximise your online service delivery
• Question and answer session

This one hour online session will be recorded and delivered by Rahib Ahsan

Salim is the Director of Smartlyte and will be hosting the session. He is the Digital Lead for Birmingham Financial Inclusion Partnership and sits on both the Digital Working Party for Hall Green NNS and the West Midlands Coalition for Digital Inclusion. He provides consultancy on digital transformation and community engagement to all sectors - https://www.linkedin.com/in/salimshaikh1

Rahib Ahsan is an Associate Trainer for Smartlyte a qualified Financial (IFA) & Public Accountant (IPA), Auditor & Business Advisor and has been working in the financial and accounting sector for over the past 8 years. He has been providing Accounts, taxation & Financial services to a wide range of SMEs cafes, restaurants, retail stores, Amazon Retailers, IT companies, Service Sectors, Network Rail, R&D companies, Property and Automotive Sectors just to name a few. Rahib works with Businesses of all sizes providing them with a tailor-made service as he believes one size does not fit all.

Rahib has been recently helping businesses through the pandemic providing them support on how to use this pandemic as an opportunity and use this time to digitise their and their company’s future.

Rahib has been recently helping business through the pandemic providing them support on how to use this pandemic as an opportunity and use this time to digitise their and their company’s future.

Hall Green Neighbourhood Networks Scheme (NNS) is a project to help prevent older people aged 50 and over from needing to access social services or the NHS by connecting them to the right activities or services in their local communities at the right time to help them stay living at home, independently for as long as possible.