Growing Together in Westminster Avenue, Radcliffe, hosts various events to help local residents in the area.
The centre functions as a hub for several charities and community groups and opened its doors to the public earlier this year.
The group have linked up with Blackburn-based Opus Broadband which has been working with a number of charities, schools, community groups and social housing providers across the North West.
The company has been installing free broadband services as part of their “Internet for Everyone Campaign”.
The firm has also signed up to the Charter for Digital Inclusion launched by the Digital Poverty Alliance.
Growing Together is one of the most active community groups in the area and take part in everything from delivering food to the most vulnerable to hosting women’s events.
It also hosts coffee mornings for veterans and Bingo.
Tina Harrison is community volunteer lead at Trinity Foodbank and Growing Together Radcliffe Support CIC.
She said: “We deliver a full range of different things and we always look to learn them from our attendees.”
The free internet will be used to compliment their services such as making GP appointments for people to hosting health events.
Tina said: “When it comes to liaising with, for example, nurses having the internet is quite key, we wanted to get the internet in this office so we will be be a multi-purpose office.
“We had the nurses in, but they were having to ring the surgery to check whether that person has had the Covid booster or not because at the time we didn’t have the internet in and couldn’t connect from their laptops
“Here it’s about the confidentiality of the staff and the documents that were sent to the council or social services or any of the other services just to make sure that we know that what’s in here is secure.”
Tina said the free internet would be a lifeline to those who were unable to access internet at home.
She said: “We have people coming in that will need help with their digital skills.
“Once one of our ladies came in and she was lacking digital skills so we sat with her to help with the things she needed to do online.
“It is that sort of thing of we need the internet connection for and we need it for when people come in as we are also registered as a warm place.
“People can sit down they can use the WiFi while they’re here as a lot of people around here haven’t got such access to the internet.”
Tina added: “People know that this is their space. If they want to use it and it’s free.
“We want this to be a central hub for everyone and we will need internet for that.”
An Opus Broadband spokesperson said: “For us, this is a long-term commitment that is part of Opus Broadband’s broader social responsibility and digital inclusion.
“We are aiming to expand similar efforts to other regions in the near future as we believe that everyone deserves the opportunity to connect and participate fully in the digital world.”
If your community group or charity could benefit from free internet then you can find out more on the company’s website.