UnLtd Join Forces With The UK's Largest Internet Related Charity To Promote Inclusion, Safety and In

Online, October 21, 2009 (Newswire.com) - 20th October 2009 - Nominet Trust today announces a formal agreement with UnLtd, the leading charity dedicated to inspiring and supporting social entrepreneurs. This new relationship will strengthen the ability of Nominet Trust to support individuals and projects that make a difference to society through the Internet.

Teaming up with UnLtd allows Nominet Trust to source often hard to reach entrepreneurial individuals and community groups around the UK, and support their efforts to create, develop and implement Internet-based projects that benefit society.

UnLtd will provide hands-on support and resources alongside awards of funding to individuals and small groups who are creating new projects that reflect the objectives of Nominet Trust. The projects will focus on the safe use of the Internet for social benefit purposes such as education and inclusion. All awards in the partnership programme will be jointly approved by Nominet Trust and UnLtd.

Cliff Prior, chief executive at UnLtd, says: "UnLtd has a history of finding fantastic people with talent and a passion to transform the world in which they live, and supporting them to become successful social entrepreneurs - over 16,000 people to date. The Nominet Trust awards programme will enable UnLtd to build on this success by helping a new wave of people create social benefit through the Internet."

Nominet Trust is also partnering with and supporting the Office of Digital Inclusion (ODI) headed by Martha Lane-Fox to promote and encourage digital inclusion. Nominet Trust will work closely with ODI to reach its principal target - a group of 4 million "socially excluded" people who not only aren't online, but fall short in many other areas including health, education, income and housing[1].

Martha Lane Fox, British government's champion for digital inclusion, comments: "Nominet Trust will be a very important partner for the ODI. Its vision and values closely align with our efforts to bring more people online, safely. Together with the cooperation of a network of 25 charities, we'll be able to fund and encourage the creation of grass root projects that most effectively address the problem of Internet exclusion and accessibility."

Jonathan Welfare, chair of Nominet Trust, adds: "Through these partnerships, Nominet Trust will be able to provide funding, advice and expertise that will allow a greater number of Internet-related projects to make a real difference to society, whether that's through education, inclusion or safety. "