Emma Weston, OBE
CEO
Emma is the founder of Digital Unite and "holds the vision." She thinks about what we can do to make the world more digitally inclusive, and how we can make it happen. What can we learn? What can we create? Who can we work with?
We all work remotely, with flexible hours. We are all happy to help! Our email addresses are firstname.surname@digitalunite.com. If you don't know who you want to talk to, email us on du@digitalunite.com, which is monitored throughout every working day. You can also leave a message on 0800 228 9272.
Karen Johnson
Delivery Management
Karen oversees the day to day running of DU, coordinates the delivery of all our larger projects and makes everything work! She also leads on monitoring and evaluation.
Kate Holmes
Engagement & Sales
Let's Get Digital, Durham, Lead
Kate runs our sales and connects with organisations who want to be more digitally inclusive and works with them to see how we can help. She leads on "Let's Get Digital Durham", helping local organisations turn staff and volunteers into Digital Champions.
Sarah Jewell
DCN Membership
Let's get Digital, West Cumbria, Lead
Sarah supports existing members on the Digital Champions Network (DCN), particularly Project Managers and makes sure the Network is serving our members' needs. She leads on 'Let's Get Digital, West Cumbria', helping local organisations turn staff and volunteers into Digital Champions.
Rashpal Panesar-Gipson
Project Co-ordinator
Rashpal supports Digital Champions to develop in their roles, sharing resources, keeping training up to date, setting up peer sessions and facilitating skills share sessions. They co-ordinate our Clarion Futures project.
Pronouns: they/ she. Rashpal on Linkedin
Caroline Jones
Champion Co-ordinator
A 'old timer' at Digital Unite, Caroline looks after the Digital Champion's community, overseeing the forum, publishing monthly newsletters, organising online meet-ups, answering queries and doing some social media. She specialises in very bad dad jokes...
Harriet Hungerford
Content strategy & delivery
Harriet thinks about content. She works with our clients and our Digital Champions to understand their learning needs, set objectives and devise creative learning solutions.
Paula Blackledge
Content creation & management
Paula oversees the creation, maintenance and evaluation of the content on all of our learning platforms. This includes all the learning courses on the DCN and the free tech guides on our site.
Kat Elliott
Technology Lead
Kat runs all our different learning platforms including the Digital Champions Network and Inspire, works on new technology projects and supports data analysis.
Sophie Theunissen
Marketing
Sophie does our marketing. She draws up the strategy, looks after the website and runs our social media channels. She occasionally runs small projects too.