Our Aims and Objectives

• Bridge the Gap is a  Community interest Company based in Hackney, with aims to support families at a grass roots level.
• Our members are families from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds including Caribbean, African, European, South Asian and British.
• We all live in Hackney and have all experienced the devastating effects of social and digital divide first hand. 
• In the current crisis we saw the need for a new organisation focused on bridging this digital and social divide, where all members play a role in sharing skills and experiences for the benefit of the wider community. 
• We aim to bridge the gap by empowering local families including those with children with additional needs through supporting them with technology equipment. 
• We aim to enable a network of parents to create change within their own local community, in turn inspiring other parents and families to be the change they want to see. 
• We want to give families the ability to change their own futures through empowering them with education and technology through our Digital Community Hub Project.

Meet Melissa Francis, Founder of Bridge the Gap - Families in need CIC