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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Nominet Digital Neighbourhood

Digital Skills Award

Nominet Digital Neighbourhood is a unique digital skills training and work experience programme. Pioneering a new approach to tackling two of the UK’s most pressing challenges in digital skills it...

Finalist 2018
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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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Richard Rankin

Digital Volunteer of the Year Award

Previously an IT consultant, Richard began volunteering with RNIB after looking for something to give back to the community in his retirement. In his role as a Technology Volunteer for...

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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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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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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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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IMAREC

BT Young Pioneer Award

North London schoolboy, Baran Kormaz (15), was inspired to design fire-safety app – which he calls IMAREC – after being horrified at the Grenfell Tower disaster in London last June....

Finalist 2018
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Small Robot Company

BT Connected Society Award

Launched in November 2017, the Small Robot Company is re-imagining farming in the robotic age. By providing a service of small, precise and efficient robots, they plan to plant, feed...

Winner 2018
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Anna Holland Smith

Digital Volunteer of the Year Award

Anna is committed to democratising coding education and promoting a more diverse, inclusive and equitable Tech workforce. She volunteers for a number of organisations to further this aim, alongside her...

Winner 2018
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Water Watcher

BT Young Pioneer Award

Developed by a team of four home educated students, the Water Watcher looks to provide a simple and inexpensive solution to the problem of running taps and water wastage worldwide....

Winner 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