Getting help with mobile data

Dorset Council has teamed up with the Good Things Foundation charity to help people in digital need.

We have a limited number of SIM cards that last for six months to give people in digital need. The SIM cards offer up to 20GB per month.

Recipients must be aged 18 and over, be from a low-income household and have no access (or insufficient access) to the internet at home and/or have no or insufficient access to the internet away from home.

This giveaway is for data only so recipients will need to have an unlocked device.

For more information or to refer someone email: digitaldorset@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk or you can complete this form.

If you need help in completing the form please call our Digital Hotline 01305 221048. 

Please note we cannot guarantee which network provider the sim you receive will be from.

Other organisations can obtain SIMs as well

The national data bank scheme is run by the Good Things Foundation.

It acts like a foodbank but for mobile data, providing free mobile SIM cards to help digitally excluded people get connected.

If you are part of an organisation that works will people who need data, then you could apply to Good Things Foundation. The charity issues the data SIMs to organisations and not directly to individuals.

You can find out more information, including how to apply from the Good Things Foundation website.