Thankyou to all Voicebox contributors
March 18, 2009 by Helen Milner
I’m sorry to tell you that Voicebox was not successful in its bid to run the Digital Mentors initiative from CLG. The call came in this afternoon, and to be honest, I’m still reeling from the disappointment.
The successful bidder was Media Trust, and so I’d like to congratulate their team who also worked really hard to develop the winning bid.
As you’ve read from the Voicebox blog so far, we’ve come such a long way since last autumn in terms of the understanding how an open and collaborative approach to developing bids can work, and so this wont be the last time we will use this approach to develop other opportunities that come our way!
A big ‘THANK YOU’ to all of you that contributed to the Voicebox blog. I’ve learned a great deal from you all and hopefully, some great contacts too. I’m sure these links wont be lost!
In the meantime, I hope you will join with me in offering your support to Media Trust (and their partners) to ensure the Digital Mentors initiative help peoples in deprived communities in England develop skills in using social and community media.
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Many thanks to everyone for such supportive messages. We are delighted to confirm that Media Trust has been awarded the contract to deliver Digital Mentors on behalf of the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG). We have been asked not to give out details of the bid until the Minister is ready to formally launch the scheme, however we are keen to hear from anyone who is interested in working with us. If you’d like to get involved, please email felicityl@mediatrust.org - marking the subject of the email Digital Mentors and we’ll keep you in touch with progress!
Really sorry to hear that we didn’t make it; I know Helen/Ben and others put an incredible amount of work. However, I’m sure the relationships developed will be ample return on the investment in the future, and I’m sure Media Trust will deliver a digital mentors project we will all be happy to support.
Looking forward to working with you again in the future…
still nothing on their website, any idea where the details of their bid are?