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Student volunteers used their digital knowledge to teach older residents at Ng Wong Yee Man Neighbourhood Elderly Centre how to use tablet computers.
Journalism students designed and delivered practical media-literacy workshops in public secondary schools. More than 500 pupils participated over the project period, with 90% satisfaction reported.
Administration students worked with pupils in two public secondary schools in Manaus through discussion circles and shared university experiences. The study recorded 9.27/10 satisfaction and increased interest in higher education among 45% of participants.
Engineering students provide free practical energy-saving advice to residents in Southwark and Lambeth. By February 2024, more than 3,000 residents had received advice and information.
International students help older residents use smartphones, tablets and online services while older participants share life experience and guidance, building digital confidence and intergenerational relationships.
Students provide basic water-safety activities for disadvantaged local children as part of the school's ongoing student service programme.
Students visit the Salvation Army Boys' Home each week to teach English to 27 boys, normally with two student volunteers working with each boy.
Grade 10 students serve as teachers, coaches and mentors in local primary schools, contributing academic, life-skills and sports support to thousands of pupils across eight schools.
Graduates spend a community-service year working in under-resourced government schools around Arusha, sharing academic, sporting, creative and leadership skills.
Nine Communication Design students created branding, packaging and promotional videos for a local community learning centre to help publicise its activities and products.
A 12-year-old student established Mumbai's first Little Free Library, giving neighbouring schoolchildren, college students and street children free access to donated books.
A Grade 8 student designed, built and stocked a Little Free Library and donated it to the town for residents to take and share books.
Students and staff built a Little Free Library and donated it to Collingwood School, where students and families can freely take or leave books near the playground.
Students collected oral histories from the Punjabi Canadian community in Greater Vancouver, preserving community voices and making local history available beyond the classroom.
Students are trained to conduct and record oral-history interviews with family, peers and community members, building a growing archive of Montreal community voices.
Students designed and painted a public mural at a downtown business celebrating French language, multilingualism, inclusion and belonging for residents and visitors.
Students support their sister-school community through service mornings, sports, drives, weekly STEM and astronomy clubs and other projects; high-school students logged 13,309 community-service hours in the reported year.
Secondary students spend 10 to 15 hours working inside a local nonprofit organisation, doing useful everyday work while learning how community organisations identify and tackle civic problems.
Older students mentor younger Grade 6 pupils in weekly sessions using reading, games and future-planning activities, helping younger learners build confidence while student mentors develop leadership skills.
Students selected local research topics, conducted community-based oral-history research and shared their findings through posters and presentations.
Culture-bearers and elders teach students Tnalak weaving, brass casting, embroidery and wood carving. The programme helps transfer Tboli knowledge and skills to a younger generation, has enabled some students to use their weaving skills to make products, and has attracted out-of-school youth, including young mothers, back into education.
Students and families identified living heritage from their own backgrounds and created an exhibition of more than 100 objects. A student's grandfather, a Hanga practitioner, helped students learn the traditional Japanese printing technique. UNESCO reports stronger student self-confidence, community cohesion, respect for different heritage and cooperation between teachers and parents.
Students aged about 10–14 explored the local Glöcklerlauf tradition with experienced practitioners, including how its illuminated caps are made, and connected the tradition with physics, art, German and computer-aided design. Teachers reported greater student motivation and strong results even on challenging tasks, while practitioners passed knowledge to a younger generation.
The school hosts community hub programmes for families including playgroups, parent learning and barista training, with a published programme for Term 3 of 2026.
This community-led project provides devices, connection cafés and intergenerational digital learning for local families. It is designed to build digital confidence, strengthen community connections and create an approach other communities can replicate.
Volunteer Digital Champions support older people with devices, connectivity and digital skills. The funded programme aims to reach 7,000 people through awareness activity and more than 800 people through skills sessions.
Community partners provide digital training for older, disabled and low-income residents with health conditions. The pilot is designed to improve confidence using online health services and reduce digital exclusion.
The project expands digital inclusion hubs for older LGBTQ+ people across West Yorkshire, combining skills training, devices and peer support. It aims to support more than 250 people and reduce digital exclusion and isolation.
Digital health roadshows support Deaf BSL users to build confidence and skills for accessing health services online. The programme is designed to increase NHS App use, improve confidence and strengthen community connections.
Refugee and asylum-seeking women receive devices and tailored digital-skills support integrated with English learning. The project is designed to help participants access healthcare, apply for work and support their children's learning.
Young people established collective brickmaking and savings activity, generating income while helping members develop their own individual brick projects.
A community-led initiative created a modern classroom with digital tools and flexible learning spaces to strengthen local education and skills.
Children use a community toy library with educational resources, play opportunities and homework support, giving local families shared access to learning materials.
Local volunteers are trained to help citizens access digital services and apply digital skills in everyday life, alongside outreach to households, women and young people.
Trained volunteer Digital Champions help older people build digital skills and confidence through practical support and digital-skills sessions.
Community master potters led 40 learning sessions for thirteen young potters, passing on modelling, decoration and firing techniques together with the history and meanings of the ceramics. The community also authored a bilingual Spanish–Quechua publication so its knowledge could continue to be shared.
The society identified and documented traditional crafts and craft practitioners in Historic Cairo and supported transmission through training and apprenticeship. Its wider work has documented hundreds of Egyptian crafts, while specific programmes have trained younger practitioners so endangered knowledge remains in use rather than existing only as an archive.
More than 115 young people learned traditional woodland skills including green woodworking, natural dyeing, willow weaving, wood carving and stone carving from experienced craftspeople. Seven participants went on to start enterprises, including one delivering wood-carving courses for children, helping traditional skills travel to another generation.
Traditional artist communities in rural Bengal developed community-owned folk-art centres and museums for practice, learning, training, demonstration and exchange. Village festivals and creative-enterprise work have given traditional crafts and performing arts contemporary audiences and income opportunities while keeping the practices active in the communities that hold them.
Community-run workshop where people share tools, knowledge and practical projects.
Public-speaking and leadership club with in-person and online meetings open to guests.
Public-speaking and communication club open to interested visitors and members.
Community space for people interested in technology, science, engineering and digital or electronic art.
Amateur radio club offering meetings, radio activities, technical learning and support for newcomers.
Amateur astronomy society welcoming people of all ages and experience levels to learn and observe together.
Amateur radio and electronics club welcoming all experience levels and helping newcomers learn and qualify.
Amateur-radio community supporting enthusiasts, communications activities, contests and emergency communications.
Open public-speaking and communication club where members practise speeches, feedback and leadership skills.
Public-speaking and leadership club providing regular practice, speeches and peer feedback in a supportive group.
Open Toastmasters group where members and visitors practise public speaking, communication and leadership.
Open public-speaking club providing regular speaking practice, structured feedback and leadership experience.
Open communication and public-speaking club where members practise speeches and leadership skills.
Open Toastmasters community offering regular public-speaking practice, feedback and leadership development.
Open communication and leadership club with regular meetings where members practise public speaking and feedback.
Open public-speaking and leadership group offering regular meetings and speaking practice.
Open Toastmasters group where people practise public speaking, communication and leadership skills.
Open public-speaking club providing regular speaking practice, feedback and leadership development.
Open Toastmasters community for practising public speaking, communication and leadership skills.
Open public-speaking and leadership club where members practise speeches and receive structured feedback.
Open Toastmasters club providing public-speaking, communication and leadership practice through regular meetings.
Weekday homework club providing learning resources, homework support and volunteer guidance for around 50–60 local children.
Community-led language groups where residents and newcomers practise languages together and volunteers share their own language as buddies.
Free community English and Mandarin exchange using weekly conversation activities to help local and international participants practise together.
Open community hackerspace providing shared infrastructure for technology, electronics, software, arts and collaborative projects and knowledge exchange.
Community-driven space for hackers, makers and tinkerers where people meet, learn and build technology projects together through workshops and public events.
Community-managed physical and virtual hackerspace where members meet, share resources and run workshops, talks and collaborative projects around digital technology, open software and hardware.
Large community language and cultural exchange where local and international participants meet regularly for conversation, language practice and shared cultural learning.
Free Seoul community where Korean and international participants meet regularly to practise languages, share cultures and make local connections.
Community group bringing local residents, travellers and international participants together for Mandarin-English language exchange and social activities.
A free weekly drop-in coffee morning with tea, coffee and informal conversation for people who want an easy way to meet others locally.
A free weekly social and language exchange where locals and international residents meet, practise languages and make new friends.
A free weekly English and Spanish language exchange in a relaxed café-bar setting where people practise without pressure and meet others.
A free weekly conversation club for people who want to practise English, build confidence and connect with others in the community.
A free relaxed English conversation club where people practise speaking, build confidence and make new friends.
A free weekly drop-in with coffee, tea, snacks and informal socialising at the public library.
A free weekly drop-in conversation group where people practise French together over tea and cookies.
A free weekly library drop-in for people with some French who want regular conversation practice and a chance to meet others.
Free weekly group sessions where adults practise conversational English with a qualified tutor and meet new people.
Free weekly group sessions where adults practise conversational English with a qualified tutor and meet new people.
A free weekly library group where adults practise spoken English in a relaxed setting, meet new people and learn from others.
A free weekly conversation club in a safe, supportive library setting, with tea and coffee provided and all adults welcome.
A free weekly games club where people can meet others and play Scrabble, chess, Rummikub, Cribbage and tabletop games.
A free weekly community-led board-game afternoon for new or casual adult gamers, with beginners welcome and no game required.
A weekly language exchange bringing Brazilians, travellers and international residents together for conversation and language practice.
A weekly casual meetup bringing locals, expats and travellers together for relaxed conversation and new social connections.
A weekly practice-first group where participants build speaking confidence through repeated short talks, creative speaking games and supportive feedback.
A free weekly international meetup where locals and people from around the world practise languages and connect through conversation.
A recurring international meetup where locals and visitors practise languages, meet people and exchange cultures through organised social events.
A weekly English and Portuguese exchange built around relaxed real conversation between Portuguese speakers and people learning Portuguese.
A recurring language and culture exchange where Korean and international participants practise through small-group conversations and themed discussion.
A weekly language exchange where participants gather around language groups to practise speaking and meet people from different backgrounds.
A weekly international gathering combining language exchange, conversation themes and social games for locals, students, travellers and expats.
A weekly small-group language exchange where Thai and English speakers practise through conversation, cultural discussion and shared learning.
A weekly language exchange where locals, expats and travellers practise at language tables and meet through relaxed conversation.
A weekly meetup where Vietnamese and international participants practise conversational Vietnamese and English and connect through cultural exchange.
Public recurring pottery and clay session hosted by Creative Biscuit. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring knitting session hosted by English Heritage. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring life drawing session hosted by Cave. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring life drawing session hosted by London Art & Drawing Meetup Group. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring mindful drawing session hosted by SharedCity CIC. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring language exchange session hosted by Polyglot.tw. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring language exchange session hosted by Polyglot Nexus Taiwan. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring language exchange session hosted by Talkandtea. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring korean-english language exchange session hosted by JustTalk Hongdae. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.
Public recurring board games and language exchange session hosted by DyCE Board Game Events. Check the organiser’s listing for current arrangements.