The Bilston On Line suite has it's origins in the form of a Millennium Project
initiated
for the Year 2000 Millennium Celebrations. For this a small number of Computers
were purchased and the original version of this website was created. Later
The Government launched The UK Online project. Locally, the project was a
partnership between Wolverhampton City Council and Wolverhampton Federation of Community
Organisations. The partnership was awarded a total of £400,000 to set up projects
in Community Centres across the City.
The money was obtained from a bid to
the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) and CMF funding. This Funding finally ran out on March 31st 2006, following
considerable discussions and viability studies, The Management
Committee
of Bilston Community Association unanimously voted to maintain an I.T. facility
in Bilston Community Centre this is run entirely at our own expense. The
UK Online Brand Name was retained for our I.T. facility until late 2007 when it
was decided to drop the UK Online branding as we receive no support from
this source, thus The Bilston On Line Suite came into being.
Following careful consideration of all the options open to us we have decided to
bring the On Line Suite in to the mainstream of our activities. Therefore
it is not a free to use facility. Like all the other
rooms in our centre use of the On Line Suite is available by pre booking
only.
Currently (Late September 2011) We have two sessions per
week details here.
Please note
we are Not a UK Online Centre.
June 13th 2011 we
have just completed the transfer of our I.T. suite to a new larger room at
the same time we have upgraded all our computers to Windows 7.
We re launched our On Line Centre on July 23rd click for details
Now available a
Prospectus for forthcoming classes
Bookings can be made via The Booking Officer as normal.
Email enquiries to info@bilston.org
Tel/Fax 01902 652519
Technical Information More I.T. related information