{"id":19734,"date":"2017-06-01T12:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digileaders.com\/?p=19734"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:43:14","slug":"matthew-adam-west-midlands-local-champion-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digileaders.com\/matthew-adam-west-midlands-local-champion-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Matthew Adam has been announced as the West Midlands local champion 2017. Matthew is the MD and founder of We Are Digital, a startup begun in 2012 (formerly Silver Training) and grown from scratch to become a leading digital and financial inclusion training company, with the UK\u2019s largest<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nWe Are Digital, a major digital and financial inclusion training provider, has its UK headquarters in Warwick. From its founding as a bedroom-startup by MD Matthew Adam, it has grown into two leased offices at the Warwick Technology Park, where a team of 16 now lead all its UK projects, including digital and financial inclusion programmes with housing associations across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In the West Midlands itself We Are Digital has two major projects with Orbit, a large 40,000 stock housing association based in Coventry, delivering both in-home digital skills sessions 1:1 to Orbit residents, and a new innovative financial capability programme across 7 Orbit regions, in partnership with the CAB, Anglia Care Trust, Money Advice Plus and Squirrel.<\/p>\n<p>We Are Digital has also run many training courses in the region in cities such as Birmingham, for Viridian Housing (now Optivo) and Metropolitan.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Proud to be at the forefront of digital inclusion in the West Midlands, the We Are Digital team is often speaking at events on the subject, including working with a host of tutors across the region, each covering a 20 mile from radius from their homes. 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