Carphone Warehouse Sponsors Spring Online

Digital Unite has confirmed that Carphone Warehouse will be Headline Partner for Spring Online, one of the UK’s leading digital inclusion campaign, for the second year running. Since 2002, Digital Unite’s Spring Online campaign has sought to inspire people, particularly older people, to achieve a lasting use of the internet by supporting volunteers and organisations to hold free internet taster events across the UK.  

Last year around 1,000 Spring Online events were held helping over 20,000 people to get online. The successful partnership between Carphone Warehouse and Spring Online 2013 saw a number of Carphone Warehouse stores participate in the campaign with their own Spring Online events.   

Kesah Trowell, CSR Lead at Carphone Warehouse said “Getting to grips with technology can be daunting for many older people yet they can have the most to gain, whether it’s keeping in touch with friends and family, internet shopping and banking or finding out about community events and activities. At Carphone Warehouse we’ve been guiding people through the complexities of the connected world for 25 years and are keen to share our knowledge and experience to help combat digital and social exclusion”.  

Now in its 13^th year, the Spring Online campaign has been instrumental in successfully helping tens of thousands of people make technology a part of their everyday lives and helped even more so through the partnership with Carphone Warehouse.  Carphone Warehouse’s sponsorship of the Spring Online campaign will be administered by Digital Unite’s charitable arm, the Digital Unite Trust.

Judith Graham, Operations Manager for Spring Online said: “We are delighted to have Carphone Warehouse as Headline Partner for Spring Online again this year.  The way the stores took time out from business as usual to get involved in the campaign and effectively meet the needs of local older people was terrific. We’re looking forward to building on these successful foundations with Carphone Warehouse to help even more people in 2014.”

This partnership was brokered by Slingshot Sponsorship.