• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Tech For Good Hub

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

  • Start Here
  • Sign up
  • Blog
  • Funding Programme
  • I’m a Funder
  • About

Winning funding

What Advice Would You Give Organisations Applying to the Tech for Good Programme?

January 21, 2019 By Joe Roberson

Project leads giving advice

We asked three of the current cohort what advice they’d give. Here’s what they said. [Read more…] about What Advice Would You Give Organisations Applying to the Tech for Good Programme?

Why Was Your Tech for Good Grant Application Successful?

November 26, 2018 By Joe Roberson

You know how it is when applying for a grant. Though the odds are stacked against you, somehow you still feel hopeful.

Usually that hope gets crushed. Rejection is normal.

But sometimes you win. Sometimes you get offered a grant. Then you feel happy. And excited. And probably a wee bit nervous too.

So we thought we’d find out if this was true [Read more…] about Why Was Your Tech for Good Grant Application Successful?

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

November 19, 2018 By Joe Roberson

red lemon with yellow lemons

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

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

October 8, 2018 By Joe Roberson

Ellie Hale from CAST

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.

The Wizard’s Guide to Creating a Winning Tech for Good Funding Application

July 9, 2018 By Joe Roberson 1 Comment

wizard making a circle of sparks

This post connects to the final part of the story of Dorothy’s journey to the Emerald City of Tech for Goodness where she and her friends have now met the Wizard of Tech for Good. The story has been unfolding in weekly instalments delivered to 280 Hub subscribers. Become a subscriber here and get future stories and TfG guidance delivered to your inbox.


Sooner or later you’ll want to get your hands on some Tech for Good funding and digitise part of your service. Use this guide to maximise your chances of a successful funding application.

So you’ve got [Read more…] about The Wizard’s Guide to Creating a Winning Tech for Good Funding Application

What My Daughter’s Kitten Taught Me About Tech for Good Grantmaking

April 30, 2018 By Joe Roberson Leave a Comment

Alf the Tech for Good Funder Kitten
Alfie, the Tech for Good kitten, having a rest from hanging out on the doorstep.
Alfie, the Tech for Good kitten, having a rest from hanging out on the doorstep.

My daughter’s got a new kitten. It’s the cutest ever.

It’s still only a bairn. Too small to go outside, but old enough to run around and tear up the house.

Everytime the back door opens it sprints to the doorstep.

It can smell the garden. It knows it’s different and its interested in the outdoor world’s possibilities.

But when it get to the doorstep it pauses, looks around for my daughter, then runs back inside.

[Read more…] about What My Daughter’s Kitten Taught Me About Tech for Good Grantmaking

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

We’re on a Journey Together

  • What is…?
  • Winning Funding
  • Starting Out
  • Running a Project
  • Success & Failure
  • Wisdom
  • What we’ve learnt

Recent Posts

  • Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation launch ‘Build’, a £1 million digital development fund
  • How and why we changed our Tech for Good initiative in 2020
  • Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation announce ‘Explore’, a new early stage digital funding strand, in partnership with CAST
  • The eight organisations funded by Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Tech for Good 2019 programme
  • A Fun Way to Learn About Charity Digital Service Design (free download)

Use this website responsibly

There’s a ton of useful stuff here. But you gotta know that all views and opinions are those of the Tech for Good programme support team, not Comic Relief and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

Privacy policy

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

  • Blog
  • Funding Programme
  • I’m a Funder
  • About
  • Contact

Copyright © 2021 Comic Relief