BT Community Connection Success for Bayview
Everybody Online Caithness has been working in partnership with Bayview Residential Care home and they have recently been successful with a BT Community Connections application.
The successful application has provided Bayview care home with a brand new laptop, new line installation and a year’s free supply of broadband. Shona Macdonald, Project Officer for Everybody Online Caithness, has been working with the service for a few months now both with their day care users and residential users and helped them with the application process.
The new addition to the house will be of great benefit to the users, providing them with a new form of communication and allowing them to keep up to date with what is going on in their local area and beyond.
Gordon Macleod, Bayview Manager is delighted with the award, "The laptop is a great new tool for the residents, it means many of them can now keep in regular contact with family and friends that are away from the area"
Funded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), with the support of BT Scotland, Everybody Online - Caithness is run by a national charity 'Citizens Online' and aims to use technology to help communities counter social disadvantage. Project Officer, Shona commented :
"It has been great working with Bayview house and the users really seem to be benefiting from the sessions. I am looking forward to developing the session and encouraging more of the residents to use their new laptop’"
Source: EverybodyOnline Caithness