Supporting LGTBQ teenagers with a free app
Young People’s Award 2015
Josie Baldwin, Emily Bowes, Katie Griffiths and Alexandra Hill, all aged 14, are the team behind the I’m Okay app. The girls wanted to build an app to support teenagers,...
Free app connects homeless, and those at risk, with support services
Community Impact Award 2015
Set up in 1971, Simon Community Northern Ireland is the leading homelessness charity in Northern Ireland, providing a range of services for people who are homeless or at risk of...
Turning young tech consumers into tech creators
Digital Skills Award 2015
Apps for Good is a free education programme, working to change tech education forever; to turn young tech consumers into tech creators, unlocking the confidence and talent of young people...
Making 3D printed limbs accessible for all
Young People's Award
Vitória Maurício is an anatomical artist and 3D modeller, who had just finished a Masters degree at Glasgow University when she found Open Bionics on Twitter and asked to be...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
