Les Hoûmets residents join digital revolution It’s National Coding Week and while children are learning coding skills in school, the residents of Les Hoûmets Care Home in sunny Jersey don’t want to be left behind, they have been learning new digital skills too!  This year they have taken part in a National Digital Challenge which […]

On one level, tech should be the most diverse and inclusive industry, after all, employers don’t care what school you went to, your skin colour, your accent or what clothes you wear as long as you can do the job, debug the code, work as a team and deliver on time. That’s right isn’t it? […]

Going back to BASIC ! In my youth I wrote BASIC language but I really only dabbled by copying out of a book to create programmes like naughts and crosses (called Tick, Tack Toe in US books). Much later I became a competent programmer using dBASE III and Clipper, and with a Senior Partner at […]

Thinking, designing, mentoring and a sense of humour – Creative Director Ruthie Hawkesford describes her role at Us Creatives and gives us some insights into what a typical day looks like…. What made you decide on a career in graphic design? A love of illustration from an early age took me to art college where […]

Background The Digital Greenhouse is Guernsey’s Innovation Hub, which launched in 2016 to support effective collaboration, co-working, networking and learning to enable successful innovation and entrepreneurialism to thrive in Guernsey. One of the core areas of work is growing digital futures and pathways, where we work with our partners to run events, courses and programmes […]

When Covid19 hit the country, Les Hoûmets Care Home in Jersey locked down fast. This had the effect of not only protecting staff and residents but it also ensured that family members felt reassured that their loved ones were being well cared for. However, the side effect of this extra level of protection meant that […]

Richard Rolfe – Founder of National Coding Week aged 58

I made sure I invested time to build on what was working, build my digital skills and build my new business. My Background Up until March 2020 when the world came to a grinding halt, I was working as a busy personal trainer who was primarily coaching people 1-to-1 or in small groups. I specialise […]

Background   I generally consider myself to have started coding at 38 when I started university as a mature student, but I first wrote code at high school back in the 1980s. Whilst I was in third year (the term people my age use for Year 9) our class did some basic programming on our […]