Friends Against Scams is a National Trading Standards Scams Team initiative which aims to protect and prevent people from becoming victims of scams by empowering people to take a stand against scams.

The Spark iT project aims to tackle digital poverty, and allows Somerset residents to access digital support, skills and learning.

Donate IT are based in Somerset, Dorset and surrounding areas and have teamed up with many local heroes to help deliver much needed IT to people who need it. They refurbish donated equipment ready for distribution to those that need it.

Check a website is an easy-to-use online tool which helps you to determine whether a website is likely to be legitimate or a scam … before you visit it. Provided in the UK by Get Safe Online in conjunction with Cifas, ScamAdviser and our other partners, it cleverly uses an algorithm to provide a trust score based on more than 40 data sources as well as thousands of reports of malicious websites from law enforcement agencies, regulators and consumer brands every week.