Learning hub provides carers with information and support online
Community Impact Award
Carers Link is a local voluntary organisation in East Dunbartonshire for family carers, providing information, advocacy, emotional support (both one-to-one and in groups) and training for adults who care for...
From client to volunteer, supporting disabled people get back to work
IT Volunteer of the Year Award
Dalton Brown volunteers at Access to Business in Wolverhampton, supporting unemployed disabled people as they get back into work, training and self-employment. Before becoming a volunteer in August 2013, Dalton...
Talking Birds bring accessibility to the theatre
Accessibility Award
Talking Birds is a small, independent, site-specific theatre company, making work that explores, and seeks to illuminate, the profound and complex relationships between people and place. Established in 1992, they...
Barclays Bank team up with SignVideo to make banking more accessible
Accessibility Award
People who are deaf or hard of hearing and use British Sign Language (BSL) used to have to rely on family or friends, or a pre-booked interpreter, to communicate with their...
GoodSAM creates a network of lifesavers across the world
BT Ingenious Award
GoodSAM (Smartphone Activated Medic) is a London-based social enterprise, who have created a smartphone alerter and responder app, dispatch system and extensive network of trained doctors, nurses, paramedics and other...
PlusGuidance puts therapy in the patient’s fingertips
BT Ingenious Award
PlusGuidance is an online counselling platform that helps people securely and discreetly connect with a counsellor that’s right for them. Through video-calls, voice-calls and instant messaging, the service is private,...
Building award-winning accessible apps
Accessibility Award 2014
Therapy Box is an award winning app development company that specialises in communication and therapy apps for people of all ages and abilities. Founded in 2010 by Rebecca Bright (speech...
Doing something great with an extra plate
Community Impact Award 2014
Casserole Club helps people share extra portions of home-cooked food with others in their area who might not always be able to cook for themselves. Members serve up meals to...
Smarter TVs for the Visually Impaired
Accessibility Award 2014
As the world’s leading TV manufacturer by volume, Samsung supplies the UK’s highly competitive consumer electronics sector. Samsung’s leading market position provides it with a powerful platform to demonstrate how...
Bringing global expeditions to the classroom
BT Ingenious Award 2014
Digital Explorer is a social enterprise that develops education projects in collaboration with scientific and cultural expeditions, helping to bring the world to the classroom and encouraging young people to...
