# Friends of the Earth offers new rent-free residency for start-up - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/09/27/friends-earth-offers-new-rent-free-residency-start/ - Published: 2017-09-27T09:38:38+01:00 - Author: Melanie May **Friends of the Earth is again inviting start-ups to pitch for a six-month free residency at its London offices.** Four start-ups will pitch their business plans this Thursday (28 September): [Crowd.Science](https://crowd.science/), [Library of Things](https://www.libraryofthings.co.uk/), [IRIS. Drone Technologies](http://irisdronetech.co.uk/), and [Repairly](https://www.repairly.co.uk/), with [Friends of the Earth](https://www.foe.co.uk/) inviting people to [join them for evening](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friends-of-the-earths-startup-in-residence-pitch-session-tickets-37123595674) to hear the pitches and network over pizza and beer. The evening starts at 5.30 with pitches at 6.10, followed by networking and the announcement of the panel’s decision. Earlier this year, [Makerble](https://www.makerble.com/), which tracks the impact of charities, social enterprises and companies, and [Tythe](https://tythe.org/), which helps people proactively invest in causes they care about, won a six-month residency each. The residency started in March and also gave the start-ups access to FoE’s internal training and networking events. ## Advertisement The shortlisted finalists were chosen based on three criteria: their potential for success on, innovation, and on their alignment with Friends of the Earth’s core values. As well to help start-ups, Friends of the Earth set up the scheme as a way of exposing its staff and volunteers to new ideas and ways of working to improve their digital literacy, and to establish relationships in the tech community and explore opportunities to make the residency scheme an income generation project in the long run. * **[Luxury hotel group to donate breaks exclusively to Charity Escapes](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/05/24/luxury-hotel-group-donate-breaks-exclusively-charity-escapes/)**( 24 May 2018) * **[Over 100 UK & European hotel breaks offered to help charities raise funds](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/11/05/100-uk-european-hotel-breaks-offered-help-charities-raise-funds/)**( 5 November 2018) * **[£10k of design agency’s time on offer to a charity](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/11/15/10k-of-design-agencys-time-on-offer-to-a-charity/)**( 15 November 2018) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)