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A young social enterprise with a big mission & vision. Cancer Central are the first award winning HealthTech cancer platform using AI to guide people affected by cancer to find the support and information they need. The organisation has been created from over 55,000 donated hours from 250+ individuals, 50+ organisations in an approach we call cominovation (community + innovation). Cancer Central is powered by a HealthTech chat bot, Ask Ave®, a virtual assistant that learns as it interacts.

Brands have a responsibility to the world. It is not enough to do no harm as we carry out our business.  As a brand consultancy, we help our clients actively do good and consistently look for ways to be better.  It doesn’t matter if it’s a small charity or non-profit or a huge global corporation, a business should create a positive impact on the people around us, whether they work for or with the organisation,  or come into contact with its product or services. And that’s why we work with changemakers to build brands that deliver social justice and create long-term impact.

In 2007, B1G1 started with a simple idea: “What if every business could make a difference in their own way, just by doing what they normally do?”

With more than a decade of work, this simple idea has now become a global movement.

We believe that digital inequality and its definition needs to feature in the current agendas including social mobility and levelling up the UK. We believe that this definition needs to develop and we will iterate over time based on community insight.

We help communities across Portsmouth gain the literacy skills they need to thrive.

The Literacy Hubs provides unique, creative and adventurous learning environments that inspires young people, from the least advantaged communities, to improve their literacy skills and fall in love with reading and writing.

Mission Beyond is a social impact initiative. They are a group of cross-sector, purpose-driven leaders striving to have an impact on the grand challenges the world faces today.

It aligns fragmented efforts, focuses these on action and facilitates taking ideas to impact at scale via rapid experimentation and collaboration.

The Narrative Method is an award-winning approach to building meaningful human connections by helping individuals reframe how they see themselves and others through the process of sharing stories. TNM programs and products are designed to peel away participants' negative or false beliefs imposed by cultural and social influences to help them rebuild their understanding of themselves and the world. 

Our food system in the UK has grown to prize uniformity over taste and planet. This means fruit & veg that’s fresh and perfectly delicious but doesn’t look quite right by supermarket standards is left behind.

What's more, we live in a world where on-demand everything is the norm. This means farmers are left with surplus veg no matter how you slice it. If we want blackberries in January and Brussels sprouts in June, we can walk into almost any supermarket and pick them off the shelf. However, this isn’t how nature works.

This is where we come in. Every week we speak to farmers who’ve got an abundance of perfectly tasty produce on their hands, and deliver it directly to you.

Open Technology is the 3 Opens: open source software, open source hardware and open data

OpenUK promotes businesses, projects and people, who use and develop Open, and strives to collaborate across all existing organisations for Open through 3 Pillars:

Community: create a loud and cohesive voice for Open Technology in the UK;
Legal and Policy: use this influence to make the UK a great place for Open and business using Open with better laws and policies; and
Learning: promote education and learning of skills in Open Technology to develop necessary skills for the future.

They are a UK not for profit, industry organisation and advocacy body. They are funded by donation and sponsorship.

Charly and Becca were secondary school teachers in North West London when they witnessed the multiple barriers facing girls in their classrooms;the pressure to conform to ideals; a lack of confidence and self-belief; a lack of professional female role models in their networks.

They established a one-to-one mentoring scheme for 30 girls in 2013, based on research showing that conversations and personal relationships could have a big impact on challenging stereotypes and expectations. They believed that the girls needed a greater access to opportunities, but also the confidence to seize those opportunities and the skills to thrive in them.

The Girls’ Network mentoring was soon in high demand, and now operates across Greater London, Sussex, Portsmouth, the West Midlands, Greater Manchester, the North East, Tees Valley, and Liverpool City Region, working with more than 1,000 girls each year.

Sustainable Life Ap is a sustainable business and brand directory created to help make sustainable living easy for eco-conscious consumers, available for free on Apple & Android.

The Tech Talent Charter (TTC) is a non-profit organisation leading a movement to address inequality in the UK tech sector and drive inclusion and diversity in a practical and uniquely measurable way.

The Teens In AI initiative, launched at the AI for Good Global Summit at the UN in May 2018, exists to inspire the next generation of ethical AI researchers, entrepreneurs and leaders who will shape the world of tomorrow. It aims to give young people early exposure to AI being developed and deployed for social good. Through a combination of teensinai’s own hackathons, accelerators, and bootcamps together with expert mentoring, talks, company tours, workshops, and networking opportunities the program creates the platform for young people aged 12-18 to explore AI, machine learning, and data science.