Supporting tech-for-good start-ups

Provides adults with disabilities the opportunity to gain meaningful, long-term employment, primarily within the hospitality sector, through a platform that breaks down tasks with iconography.

Supports communities to co-create solutions to issues affecting them and enables more people to have a say in local decisions through digital democracy

Provides science, tech, health and inclusion activities for disadvantaged communities and works with communities to co-produce new solutions and resources.

Fights food poverty by teaching people how to cook and donating to foodbanks.

Encourages and celebrates children’s participation in learning beyond the classroom. Its online Passport to Learning platform tracks involvement in activities such as after-school clubs, culture, and employer-led outreach programmes.

A national professional network of individuals and organisations that champion integration and cohesion locally, nationally and internationally, especially via a digital platform.

Provides industry-led training and work experience to young people in Greater Manchester to support their progress into digital work. Has a dedicated programme for special educational needs and disability schools.

Helps children and young people aged eight to 18 become smart and responsible users of digital technology.

Empowers organisational change through workshops and events to increase the diversity within the tech sector in Manchester

Developing a collection of best practice methods and tools that support design teams to make considered, ethical decisions when developing a tech product or service.

Builds software to help developers, journalists and activists protect sensitive information with simple, strong encryption.

Foodinate matches restaurants with a food-giving charity in their area. For every Foodinate item sold in the restaurant, a meal is provided for a local person in need.

A video production social enterprise that offers creative video production solutions to raise health themes, while running video production workshops with young people and individuals with life-limiting or long-term conditions.

Tackles inequality and detoxifies public and political spaces through coaching, facilitation and digital tools

Runs digital making activities for 13 to 18-year-olds to boost their confidence employability. Focuses on young people in disadvantaged communities to give them improved access to Manchester’s tech sector.

Creates positive interventions such as events, courses and workshops to inspire women and girls of all ages into tech.

Works with people who have been affected by homelessness and trains them to become walking tour guides.

Provides training to charities on how podcasts can be used as a tool to amplify their voices and raise their profile

Builds people-powered movements to achieve social impact by bringing businesses, charities and the public sector together with impacted people to develop and deliver innovative solutions for equality.

Provides support for people transitioning out of the criminal justice system

Supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to improve their communication and digital skills through coaching sessions and workshops.​

Politics Project supports young people to engage and learn about democracy. This is achieved through technology, such as their ‘Digital Surgeries’ with local MPs and their online ‘Democracy Hubs’

Uses co-design principles and research techniques to help community organisations make the right digital solutions to human problems.

Developing a waste management system using data to improve the efficiency of waste disposal and its environmental impact.