Tech For Good Hub

Comic Relief's Tech for Good programme for charities and social enterprises etc

Joe Roberson

It’s All New: 5 Ways Tech for Good Grants are Different

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Grant making is changing because charities want to deliver more digital services. This has big implications for traditional grant makers.

I’d like to ask you, please, about how funding tech for good projects is different to funding traditional human powered services?”

That’s what I asked Martha Young and Ali Macfarlane, Comic Relief’s Tech for Good Programme leaders.

Then I opened my ears wide and listened. Here’s my report. [Read more…] about It’s All New: 5 Ways Tech for Good Grants are Different

What are User Stories?

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Back in July our funded projects had a rough idea of what their users needed. Since then they’ve been developing more specific ‘user stories’. Learn how to use user stories to make sure you’re creating what your users need, not what you think they want.

In all my days of working with agile service and product designers there’s one trick they use that never fails to impress me.

It’s user stories. Or more specifically, the power of [Read more…] about What are User Stories?

Demand Spikes and Testing Loops: Why One Project Scrapped Its First Solution

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The Tech for Good Programme doesn’t fund solutions. It funds solution finding projects. Understanding what this means in practice will help you apply for your first Tech for Good grant.

Samaritans had an idea. It helped them win funding from this programme. But then data analysis and user research changed their understanding of the problem. This in turn challenged their ideas and assumptions about the solution. We talked to Simon Stewart, Product Manager about how this happened. [Read more…] about Demand Spikes and Testing Loops: Why One Project Scrapped Its First Solution

I’ve Got a Tech for Good Idea! What Should I Do Now?

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Loads of us have great Tech for Good ideas. But while having an idea is relatively easy, knowing what to do with it next is much harder.

We asked Ellie Hale from the Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology what voluntary sector organisations should do with their ideas, before they try and fund them.

“Thrilling!” Why Your Tech for Good Project will be an Emotional Rollercoaster

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Running a Tech for Good project will be fun and frustrating, terrific and terrifying. Be ready for the emotional rollercoaster so you don’t get TfG whiplash.

Three months ago you spent an intense couple of weeks slogging away on your Tech for Good funding application. Evidencing the need and showing why a digital solution might be the way to tackle it was hard work. Your application also asked you to [Read more…] about “Thrilling!” Why Your Tech for Good Project will be an Emotional Rollercoaster