Senior citizens in Port Talbot will once again have the opportunity to join the thousands of ‘Silver Surfers’ already online!

Glan Afan Comprehensive School in the town, has been providing free Silver Surfers sessions to senior citizens in the community since 2007, which have been a massive success, and the group have even won numerous awards for all their hard work!

The Silver Surfers project at the school encourages the young and older generations to interact and learn new skills – Pupils from the school give up their own time to volunteer with the group and teach new things to the senior citizens.

During the sessions, the ‘Silver Surfers’ are taught how to use the mouse and keyboard, how to write letters, create greetings cards, send e-mails, find old friends on Facebook, shop on the web, read the news, and gain confidence in using the computer alone.

The Silver Surfers sessions will resume on Wednesday 15th September 2010 from 3:30pm – 5:00pm, and anyone over the age of 50 is welcome to come along and learn something new – whatever their current knowledge of computers is!

According to Ofcom, around a third of parents and grandparents have been tought or encouraged to surf the internet by a child aged 13-16 and Silver Surfers spend more time online than any other age group. So why not join them?

Check out www.glanafansilversurfers.org.uk for more information on the group and its work.