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End Digital Poverty Gala Reception to headline expanded week of activity
The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) will hold its End Digital Poverty Gala Reception on Thursday 10 September at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery in London, as part of a wider week of activity marking a new chapter for one of the DPA’s most important annual moments.
In previous years, End Digital Poverty Day has given partners and supporters a shared point in the calendar to draw attention to digital poverty in the UK. This year, in the DPA’s 25th anniversary year, End Digital Poverty Day will become End Digital Poverty Week, with a full week of activity taking place across the country.
The change is intended to bring greater awareness to digital poverty, while recognising the people and organisations working to end it. Digital poverty is felt in homes, schools, workplaces and across public services. It affects how people learn, apply for work, manage money, access healthcare, stay connected and take part in civic life. A week of activity gives the DPA and its partners more space to show those realities clearly, and to recognise the practical work already happening across the UK.
This year’s gala reception will also include the announcement and recognition of the 2026 Digital Inclusion Award winners, celebrating signatories of the DPA’s Charter for Digital Inclusion whose work is helping to widen access, strengthen digital skills, improve services and build stronger partnerships.
Elizabeth Anderson, CEO, Digital Poverty Alliance, said this year’s change reflects the need to give digital poverty more sustained national attention. “End Digital Poverty Day has always given us a moment to bring people together, but a single day can only carry so much. Becoming End Digital Poverty Week allows us to tell more of the story, recognise more of the work taking place across the country, and keep attention on the people who are still being held back by the cost of connectivity, lack of access to suitable devices, and systems that increasingly assume everyone can participate online.”
The End Digital Poverty Gala Reception will take place from 6.30pm to 9pm on Thursday 10 September at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery in London.
Original article link: https://digitalpovertyalliance.org/events/end-digital-poverty-week-gala-reception-to-headline-expanded-week-of-activity/
