Highlights from Past Winners

We’ve been consistently blown away by the range and calibre of entries. Here are some of the organisations that sponsors and partners frequently highlight

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Amandla.mobi

Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award

https://youtu.be/Z-MYfNuP9n4 Amandla.mobi uses cell phones in South Africa to enable those most affected by poverty to set up campaigns on issues that affect them and hold decision makers to account....

Finalist 2018
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Ann Crago

Digital Volunteer of the Year Award

  Ann has been a Digital Champion Volunteer at Sutton Women’s Centre and Stoneleigh Job Club since she retired in 2012. She runs two weekly computer sessions supporting over 20...

Finalist 2018
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Gather

Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award

https://youtu.be/zqTpHL3uypA Gather launched in 2016 to bring people and data together to solve the urban sanitation crisis. Statistics show that by 2030, three billion people will be living in cities...

Finalist 2018
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Graham Gunning

Digital Volunteer of the Year Award

Graham has volunteered for sight loss charity, Visibility, for several years and has been part of the team delivering their Digital Project across 13 local authorities for the last year....

Finalist 2018
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Lynk

Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award

Lynk is a social enterprise based in Kenya that builds technology to connect informal workers to employment. Aiming to provide a LinkedIn for the LinkedOut – the platform enables blue...

Finalist 2018
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Always in Mind

BT Connected Society Award

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyJbLxjIls8   Always In Mind is a website that provides easy to access for elderly people and others with cognitive disabilities to the shared digital content of friends and relatives...

Finalist 2018
Bra With Benefits

Bra With Benefits

BT Young Pioneer Award

Bra with Benefits is a cancer-detecting bra, designed to identify early stage cancer before any outward signs are visible. The hi-tech bra was designed by fifteen-year-old Alexandria Gyford for the TeenTech...

Finalist 2017
MakerClub – BrightSparks

MakerClub – BrightSparks

Digital Skills Award 2017

MakerClub’s BrightSparks programme gives Brighton tech companies the chance to make a life-changing difference to children from low-income families. A lack of access to technology, combined with reduced school and...

Finalist 2017
Emily-Jayne Crittenden

Emily-Jayne Crittenden

Tech Volunteer of the Year

In just three years, this volunteer has had undeniably huge impact on tech in Norwich and the wider region. Emily-Jayne Crittenden, runs two local tech businesses. She entered the industry...

Finalist 2017
Our MK

Our MK

Community Impact Award

“Our MK empowers citizens of Milton Keynes to put forward ideas that will impact the community and help shape the future of MK. It’s a website open to all citizens...

Finalist 2017
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Christine Dodds

Tech Volunteer of the Year

Many people with sight loss believe their visual impairment excludes them from using technology. This tech volunteer finalist is showing people with visual impairments that this simply isn’t true. The...

Finalist 2017
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Blood Quest

Digital Health Award

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has produced a free new app for iPad called ‘Blood Quest’, which aims to help alleviate children and young people’s anxiety when they have a...

Finalist 2017