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

img-DontBottleItUp: Free online support for alcohol

DontBottleItUp: Free online support for alcohol

Digital Health Award

DontBottleItUp is a free online support service available 24/7 to anyone seeking advice, support, and information about their drinking. Using a quick, easy, and confidential online questionnaire people can find...

Finalist 2015
img-Encouraging students with complex needs to interact with the world

Encouraging students with complex needs to interact with the world

IT Volunteer of the Year Award 2015

Rachael Moat is a musician and music teacher who volunteers once a week at Seashell Trust, a school for children with complex needs and severe learning difficulties, including little to...

Winner 2015
img-Dispatch App saves time and lives in London

Dispatch App saves time and lives in London

Digital Health Award

London’s Air Ambulance delivers an advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London, responding to, on average, 2,000 people every year. Time is a critical factor in helping to...

Finalist 2015
img-Going above and beyond to support disabled people

Going above and beyond to support disabled people

IT Volunteer of the Year Award

Cecil Taylor is a dedicated volunteer with ITCanHelp. Visiting disabled people in their homes, day centres or residential accommodation, he helps resolve computer problems and provides support and guidance to...

Finalist 2015
img-PlusGuidance puts therapy in the patient’s fingertips

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,...

Finalist 2015
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3 words to address the world

BT Ingenious Award 2015

Around 75% of the world suffers from inadequate addressing systems – around 4 billion people. An address means that people can receive vital deliveries and aid, disease can be reported...

Winner 2015
img-Talking Birds bring accessibility to the theatre

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...

Finalist 2015
img-Barclays Bank team up with SignVideo to make banking more accessible

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...

Finalist 2015
img-Open Bionics create affordable, accessible 3D printed limbs

Open Bionics create affordable, accessible 3D printed limbs

Accessibility Award 2015

Open Bionics is revolutionising healthcare by using 3D scanning and 3D printing to dramatically cut the cost of fitting hand amputees with robotic prosthetics. Bionic limbs can cost anything from...

Winner 2015
img-GoodSAM creates a network of lifesavers across the world

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...

Finalist 2015
img-Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Wales

Tech4Good Special Award 2014

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales won the Tech4Good Special Award, for inspiring others to use technology for good. Wikipedia is a not for profit project written and edited by millions of...

Winner 2014
img-Bringing global expeditions to the classroom

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...

Finalist 2014