Where does your photo go when you save it to the cloud?
Most people cannot answer, adults included. Your infrastructure powers their daily lives. We help them understand it.
Behind the Cloud is ThreadPoint's programme for data centre and technology companies who want communities around their sites to genuinely understand digital infrastructure, through story-led, hands-on learning in schools, libraries, community venues and your own facilities.
You do not need a big programme to begin.
Sponsor books
Place Where the Internet Goes to Sleep, the children's book about data centres, in schools and libraries near your sites. Each copy carries a bookplate naming your support.
Sponsor a school
Fund a full delivery day of story-led workshops, a class library of books and teacher resources in one named primary school near your site, with an impact summary you can report.
Data centres are essential, yet they remain largely unknown to the communities that live alongside them. That gap shows up in planning rooms, in local conversations and in a generation of children who use the internet every day without knowing it is real buildings, real cables and real people.
ThreadPoint gives operators a structured, evidence-informed programme with clear learning outcomes, designed for children, families and intergenerational community audiences, and delivered by people who understand both the technology and the communities it serves.
This is not abstract CSR. It is infrastructure literacy, and it is measured.
Essential, but invisible.
Flexible ways to start
Sponsor books
Story-led sessions for primary and lower secondary pupils, delivered in school or as part of a wider STEM or site visit programme, aligned to the curriculum teachers already deliver.
Bring Your Family to Work Days
A hands-on way for employees' children and families to understand what happens behind the screen, from the cloud and data centres to the systems that keep digital life moving.
Community Sessions
Intergenerational sessions in libraries, community spaces and local venues, plus accessible open day activities that help residents and community groups understand digital infrastructure.
Commissioned delivery
Commission ThreadPoint to deliver directly with schools, families or community groups near your sites. This works well for social value, community benefit and local impact programmes.
Partnered delivery
Work with ThreadPoint as a visible partner, connecting your people, sites and infrastructure to the learning through employee volunteering, family engagement, open days and school visits.
A flexible approach
Whether ThreadPoint delivers independently, supports your existing engagement activity, or helps shape a wider education programme, we adapt the format to the audience, setting and purpose.
Fluffbit the Cloud, right at home in the data centre.
See how story-led workshops turn data centres into something children and communities can see, build and understand.
Heard onsite.
The children grasped complex concepts incredibly quickly. Hosting the session onsite made everything real. I would highly recommend ThreadPoint to other sites and operators.
SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER, MICROSOFT
This piece here is the extra storage for the electricity, as we need backup in case the servers go down.
PARTICIPANT, AGE SIX
Getting out and seeing the facility makes what is being discussed so much more real to the children and truly brings out their interest. I 100% recommend this workshop.
JOHN PAUL CONSTRUCTION
Evidence you can report. Trust you cannot buy.
Clear documentation
Photography, case studies and an impact summary written for social value, ESG and community benefit reporting.
Proven delivery
Trusted by Microsoft, Mace Group, The Portal Trust, and the London Boroughs of Hackney and Camden.
A note on independence. All ThreadPoint learning materials are written by our educators and researchers, never by funders. Recognition is naming, not influence. That independence is what makes the work trusted by schools and councils, and what makes your support credible in a planning room.
Local relevance
Delivered near your sites with the schools, libraries and community partners your neighbours already trust.
Independent by design
Partners fund the learning; they never write it. Every resource is created independently by ThreadPoint's educators.
Measurable impact
Children reached, knowledge gained and sessions delivered, with understanding measured before and after every programme.
Employee engagement
Meaningful volunteering for your teams through site visits, family days and community open days.
Ready to explore a partnership?
Tell us which model interests you and we will come back with a tailored proposal, including delivery options and pricing.
Imagination is Infrastructure