Community Spaces

Tech help in the places
you already use

We bring drop-in tech sessions into community centres, community rooms, and independent cafes across the Calder Valley. No travel, no waiting rooms, no jargon. Just real help in a familiar space.

The idea is simple. A cafe customer who has been putting off asking about their phone or laptop walks in, orders a drink, sits with us for ten minutes, and walks out with their problem solved. The cafe gets footfall on a quiet morning. We get to help someone who would not have sought help otherwise. Everyone wins, and the money stays in the valley.

We only approach independent cafes, not chains. We do not pay for space; we bring customers. We do not promote large corporations; we tell people about the place they are sitting in.

HTT is a Community Interest Company. Our mission is explicitly local. When we run a session at an independent cafe, that cafe sells more drinks, its staff earn wages, and those wages get spent in the valley. None of that happens if we run sessions at a chain.

Community centres and community rooms serve the same purpose. They exist because local people built them, fund them, and use them. They are exactly the kind of institution HTT was set up to support.

This is not an ideological stance. It is a practical one. Keeping the economic loop tight means the valley gets stronger over time, and that benefits the people we are here to help.