CyberSafe Foundation CIC has launched a Sponsored Access Programme, giving GB Shared members a direct way to fund a year of online safety training and support for a named local charity, school or community group.

43% of businesses and 28% of charities were hit by a cyber attack last year. Most small organisations, especially the ones already stretched thin, have nobody in their corner when it happens.

Here's how it works: a sponsor pays standard CyberSafe Coach+ pricing, from £420 a year, for a chosen charity, school or community group. That organisation gets a full year of practical, plain-English cyber safety support for their staff, pupils, volunteers or the people they help. The sponsor gets public recognition and a quarterly impact report showing exactly what changed.

This sits alongside our existing Free & Subsidised Access offer (listed under Offers), which is funded by pooled subscriber contributions. The Sponsored Access Programme is different: it's a direct, named sponsorship, your business backing one specific local organisation, with a paper trail to show for it.

We're looking for our first cohort of sponsors and nominated organisations from the GB Shared community. Know a school, charity or community group that could use a year of cover? Interested in sponsoring one yourselves?

Full details are now at cybersafefoundation.org.uk/sponsor if you would like to sponsor an organisation, or cybersafefoundation.org.uk/nominate if you would like to be sponsored.