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.

Emma Weston

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? 

Emma on LinkedIn

Karen Johnson

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.

Karen on LinkedIn

Kate Holmes

Kate Holmes

Engagement & Sales

Let's Get Digital, Durham, Lead

Kate runs our sales. She 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.

Kate on LinkedIn

Sarah Jewell

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.

Sarah on LinkedIn

Rashpal Panesar-Gipson

Rashpal Panesar-Gipson 

Project Co-ordinator

Rashpal supports Digital Champions to develop in their roles, sharing resources, keeping training up to date, setting-up and facilitating peer and skills share sessions. They also co-ordinate our Clarion Futures project. 

Pronouns: they/ she.  Rashpal on Linkedin

Caroline Jones

Caroline Jones

Champion Co-ordinator

A 'old timer' at DU, 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... and presents the DC podcast with Rashpal. 

Harriet Hungerford

Harriet Hungerford

Content strategy & delivery

Harriet thinks about content. She works with our clients and Digital Champions to understand their learning needs, set objectives and devise creative learning solutions. 

Harriet on LinkedIn

Paula Blackledge

Paula Blackledge

Content creation & management

Paula oversees the creation, maintenance and evaluation of the content on our learning platforms. This includes all the learning courses on the DCN and the free tech guides on our site. 

Paula on LinkedIn

Kat Elliott

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.

Kat on LinkedIn

Sophie Theunissen

Sophie Theunissen

Marketing & Comms 

Sophie does our marketing and comms. She draws up the strategy, looks after the website and runs our social media channels. She occasionally runs small projects too.   

Sophie on LinkedIn