O2, Market Street ^Company

O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, video, and data connections. The company aims to run two sessions per week aimed at improving IT skills for older people. O2 will work with organisations across the city, including Age-Friendly Manchester, to help ensure the courses meet the needs of older people in Manchester. The company aims to have these sessions in place by August 2016. These courses will help improve IT skills amongst older people currently with little or no IT knowledge, helping them to perform basic but essential tasks like paying bills online, ensuring they can use the Internet and email safely, and that they Oare can make the most of social media, games and communication applications for their enjoyment and help reduce loneliness and social isolation.