Spring Online & Silver Surfers' Day
Spring Online and Silver Surfers' Day is our award-winning digital inclusion campaign aimed at helping thousands of older people and less confident users get the most out of computers and the internet.
Every year, around springtime, we support people and organisations all over the UK to open their doors and give local older people a taste of what the digital world has to offer them. We estimate that since we launched the campaign in 2002 well over 150,000 people have engaged with digital technologies in this way. Not bad eh?
This year (23-27 April 2012) nearly 2,000 events were held in a variety of locations , from the European Commission in the UK, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the DVLA to Brenda’s cowshed in Lancashire and a fish and chip shop in Stockport!
For more information, stories and news on Spring Online 2012 visit www.springonline.org.
From a day to a week
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Silver Surfers’ Day in 2011, we extended the campaign to a week-long activity, Spring Online, to encourage more people than ever before to take part. The ever-popular Silver Surfers’ Day takes place on the Friday as a celebratory finale to the week’s activities.
Award-winning
In August 2011 Silver Surfers' Day won the national Nominet Internet Award in the category 'Building a Networked Nation' in recognition of its achievements. Read more here.
Best event awards
Each year we celebrate the fantastic participation of our event holders with our Best Event Awards. Last year these awards were hosted by the Right Hon. Iain Duncan Smith MP in Westminster on 5 September 2011. Read more here.
In partnership
Spring Online with Silver Surfers’ Day 2012 was delivered by us in partnership with Wiltshire Farm Foods, UK Online Centres, and Race Online 2012. The campaign is also kindly supported by a number of other organisations and Government departments including the Department of Work and Pensions, Department for Communities and Local Government, Cabinet Office, Central Office of Information, Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs and Job Centre Plus.