Unlocking Digital Potential
Building AI Skills. Unlocking Opportunities. Supporting Futures.
The AI & Employability Hub is a community initiative by Softclue Data Empowerment CIC, helping people build digital confidence, develop practical AI skills and take positive steps towards employment, education and new opportunities.
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- Programme strands
- 100%
- Free to attend
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- Community first
Live in the community
Learn · Grow · Play
Proudly delivered by Softclue Data Empowerment CIC with support from The National Lottery Community Fund.
Our approach
More Than a Training Programme
The Hub is a supportive space where people can learn at their own pace, explore new technology safely, build confidence, receive practical employability support and take real steps towards their goals.
No jargon and no judgement. Come as you are, whether you have never used AI or already work with technology every day.
Facilitators, mentors and volunteers offer group learning and one-to-one help with the things that matter most to you.
Every stage is designed to move you forward — into employment, education, training, volunteering or a new opportunity.
The programme
Four strands, one supportive pathway
Choose the strands that fit your goals — most participants combine AI skills with employability support.
Understand what artificial intelligence is, how to use it responsibly and how it can help with everyday life, learning and work.
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Understanding Generative AI
- Responsible and Safe Use of AI
- AI for Everyday Life
- AI for Productivity
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Practical, one-to-one and group support to get application-ready, interview-ready and workplace-ready.
- CV Development
- Job Searching
- Cover Letters
- Online Applications
- LinkedIn Profile Development
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Start where you are. Build the everyday digital skills that make life, learning and work easier and safer.
- Email and Online Communication
- Microsoft Office Skills
- Internet Safety
- Online Forms and Applications
- Cloud Tools
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Personalised guidance and routes onward into training, volunteering, employment and digital careers.
- Career Pathway Guidance
- One-to-One Support
- Further Training
- Volunteering
- Employment Opportunities
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Learner journey
Discover → Learn → Build → Progress
A clear route from limited digital confidence to new AI skills, stronger employability and positive next steps.
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A warm welcome, no jargon and no pressure.
Come to a drop-in or open session, tell us where you are today and complete a simple starting-point check with a facilitator. Many participants join with limited digital confidence — that is exactly who the Hub is for.
- Friendly welcome conversation
- Starting-point assessment
- Choose your learning interests
- 2Learn
Practical AI and digital skills, taught step by step.
Join small-group workshops on AI skills and digital confidence, with facilitators who go at your pace and plenty of hands-on practice using real tools.
- AI skills workshops
- Digital confidence sessions
- Safe, supported practice
- 3Build
Turn new skills into a CV, a profile and applications.
Work one-to-one on your CV, cover letters, LinkedIn profile and online applications, then rehearse interviews until they feel manageable.
- CV and cover letters
- LinkedIn profile
- Interview practice
- 4Progress
Take a confident next step, with support beside you.
Plan your route forward with a facilitator or mentor — employment, further training, education, volunteering or a digital career pathway — and stay connected to the Hub community.
- Employment and interviews
- Training and education
- Volunteering and mentoring
Open community hub
Drop in, ask anything, get practical help
The Hub is more than scheduled sessions. It is a welcoming community space where you can get help with the digital tasks that feel difficult.
- Job applications
- CVs
- Digital support
- AI guidance
- Career development
- Access to learning
- One-to-one support
Supported by The National Lottery Community Fund
This project is made possible thanks to National Lottery players.
Unlocking Digital Potential: AI & Employability Hub is delivered by Softclue Data Empowerment CIC. The National Lottery Community Fund is recognised as the funder of this project and does not own or operate the Hub.
Ready to unlock your digital potential?
Whether you are starting from scratch or building on existing skills, there is a place for you at the Hub. Join us, or refer someone who would benefit.