APLE are a growing national Collective who stand for Addressing Poverty by Lived Experience.

We invite groups led by lived experience of poverty to a share what you are doing to address the digital divide and tackle digital exclusion in your area. We would love you to join us in conversation at our participatory webinar which shares good practice solutions to the digital divide led by lived experience. You can join to listen, learn and participate. You can join to share your lived expertise in an interactive webinar.

Only by sharing knowledge gained from lived experience of poverty and digital exclusion will we find solutions - from this webinar APLE will create a fact sheet that shares our learning and offers ideas and solutions towards overcoming the digital divide.

10am Welcome to Webinar APLE Collective.

10.15am-10.45am BREAKOUT GROUPS

Sharing Best Practice of Tackling the Digital Divide with Lived Experience.

(1) APLE Collective

(2) #OperationWiFi

(3) The Digital Divide Research. Frame Collective

(4) Hartlepool Action Lab.

10.45am – 11.15am Feedback – Drawing together Best Practice Principles.

11.15am-11.45am PANEL DISCUSSION. How might you amplify our voices.

Panel members to briefly introduce themselves and their work and reflect how they might use their influence to amplify our voices of lived experience to address the Digital Divide

• APPG Universal Credit Secretariat. Turn2Us. Abby Meadows.

• APPG Left Behind Neighbourhoods Secretariat. Local Trust. Ellie Pope

• The Good Things Foundation. Emma Stone.

12pm Thank You and Closing Statement.