While some of these projects focused primarily on enabling people to acquire digital media skills, in many successful projects the media products were just one strand of a wider focus.  For example, Just the Ticket was engaging new groups of learners with a wide range of cultural resources in Liverpool. Other projects were focusing on particular groups of learners, such as unemployed people (Coast Net), people with mental health difficulties (Drumming, Arts and Photography Alliance) and women prisoners (Lippy People). Gaining new media skills enabled them to tell their stories and express their point of view.

Access to digital media, especially web-based broadcast technology, can enable people who are excluded from mainstream media to make their voices heard widely.  For example:

• The Burmese and Karen community have fled an oppressive regime, but learning digital media skills enabled them to articulate their perspective and communicate with one another.
• The carers involved in the In Focus project are normally isolated and unable to speak up for themselves as a group. Through making a film and TV programme about their experiences they were able to question MPs on the All-Party Select Committee for Carers at the House of Commons and interview the Committee Chair. Their film remains on the web for all to see.

Projects were required to share resources they produced with others. The Transformation Fund programme has raised awareness of the value of sharing such material through systems such as Creative Commons Licensing Material has also been publicly posted on sites such as  School of Everything | Resources for Everything