# Comic Relief to fund Tech for Good initiatives

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/04/30/comic-relief-to-fund-tech-for-good-initiatives/
- Published: 2015-04-30T12:22:25+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Comic Relief is inviting applications to its new ‘Tech for Good’ fund, a pilot
programme within its UK Main Fund. **

Having recognised the importance of digital technology in addressing social challenges,
it aims to “support not-for-profit organisations in using digital technology to 
create social change by delivering new ideas or more effective services”.

## What Comic Relief will fund

The [Comic Relief Tech for Good](http://www.comicrelief.com/tech-for-good) fund 
will support between six and eight digital projects with grants of between £15,000
and £60,000 for up to six months. To be eligible projects must address any of the
charity’s [UK Main Fund themes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/04/30/comic-relief-to-fund-tech-for-good-initiatives/www.%20comicrelief.com/our-grants/uk/what-wefund)
of:

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• Safer Lives

• Healthier Finances

• Better Futures

• Fairer Society

• Stronger Communities

## More on eligibility

Grants are designed specifically for not-for-profit organisations that “already 
have some technical expertise and capacity to enact social change using digital 
technologies”. The projects should:

• be focused on specific user needs

• make best use of web, mobile apps or internet based technologies to deliver a 
service

• scale effectively

• challenge existing ways of delivering services

The grants are not designed to fund hack days, upgrading charities’ IT systems, 
or improving websites or social media campaigns.

 ⌊Learning from the Labs⌉The deadline for [applications](http://www.comicrelief.com/tech-for-good)
is **3pm on Friday 8th May 2015.**

## Comic Relief and digital

Comic Relief has been funding digital product development since 2010 through the
[Innovation Labs](http://www.innovationlabs.org.uk) initiative, which focused on
developing websites and mobile apps for young people to seek support for their mental
health and wellbeing.

It shared its lessons from this in a free download, [Learning from the Labs: how to fund and deliver social tech for charities and social enterprises](http://www.innovationlabs.org.uk/2014/11/06/how-to-fund-and-deliver-social-tech/).

 

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