Bilston Community Association - About the Bilston On Line I.T. Suite

Bilston Community Association
Located in The Heart of The Black Country

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 31^st2006, 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 no longer 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, due to the relatively high operating costs the standard fee for use of the On Line Suite is £4 per hour or part thereof.

Bookings can be made via The Booking Officer as normal.

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