Comic Relief Tech for Good funding programme
The next round of Comic Relief's Tech for Good funding programme opens for applications on 11th Feb 2019.
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Fat Beehive joins the Tech Manchester Mentoring programme
Fat Beehive CEO, Mark Watson, will join business leaders to provide mentoring services to tech startups in Manchester and the North West.
Crowdfund London: Create. Fund. Launch.
The Mayor of London has launched a new initiative to pitch new ideas – big or small – for community-led projects to make your local area even better.
Human-Centred Design – Free online course for social innovation
The self-paced course, delivered by IDEO.org is open for 9 weeks from January 22 – March 27.
Digital funding for small voluntary organisations
Want to know how digital tools can help make your work more effective? The Big Lottery Fund is looking to enable digital specialists to offer free assistance to small charitable organisations in January 2019.
What went live – November 2018
Here’s a snippet of some great projects that we’ve recently gone live with.
Banging the drum for social purpose
We’re delighted to be shortlisted for the 2018 Best Digital Campaign at The Drum Social Purpose Awards for the Tommy’s pre-pregnancy web app.
If you care about food waste, you need these apps in your life
Billions of perfectly edible meals are chucked in our bins every year. According to the charity Fareshare, which redistributes supermarket food waste to people in need, 1.9 million tonnes of food is wasted by the food industry every year in the UK. And several million more tonnes are thrown from cupboards and fridges in households around the country, according to resource consultancy WRAP.
Could you get around the UK if 90% of roads and railways had been destroyed?
Buglife’s B-Lines project is attempting to create a series of ‘insect pathways’ running through our countryside and towns.