# Applications open this month for 2018 Tech for Good funding

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/11/06/applications-open-month-2018-tech-good-funding/
- Published: 2017-11-06T10:29:38+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Applications for the 2018 Tech for Good programme open on 13 November, with funding
available to help 12 not-for-profit organisations.**

Comic Relief and [Paul Hamlyn Foundation](http://www.phf.org.uk/) will deliver the
[Tech for Good](http://techforgoodhub.co.uk/) programme, which will help the not-
for-profit organisations to develop their digital products or services.

The successful applicants will each receive funding of £15,000 – £47,000 for nine
months alongside access to dedicated technical expertise and an intensive support
programme between July 2018 and March 2019. This will include a residential camp
at the start to connect the funded projects with tech for good experts, and ongoing
mentoring and report back days. A public ‘wrap-up’ event at the end of the funding
will allow the projects to show what they have created with the grant and support.
Comic Relief and Paul Hamlyn Foundation will then work with the projects to try 
to ensure sustainability and scalability.

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Applications are open from the 13 November until 20 December. Applicants will be
asked to submit a video of no more than four minutes, explaining why their project
should be funded. A longlist of these video applications will be published online
with the final 24 then invited to a learning event in February before being assessed.

Applicants can focus on any of the four strategy themes:

 * Investing in Children and Young People
 * Empowering Women and Girls
 * Building Stronger Communities
 * Improving Health and Wellbeing

They must be based in, and deliver their services in, the UK and can be at any stage
of development, with solid user-centred research, a clear problem to address, and
a compelling digital solution to achieving this. The 2018 Tech for Good is looking
to fund new products and services that can be shared with the wider not-for-profit
sector.

The 2018 Tech for Good programme follows on from the previous two, which have funded
16 Tech for Good initiatives in total. Videos of the 10 projects from 2017 Tech 
for Good programme can also be found on [Comic Relief’s YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5KXCGEFbuhI8zgVSwm4qT82RY_qSP6HU).

Video: One of the 10 projects from 2017: Alexandra Rose Charity & Digitising Food
Vouchers

 * **[Comic Relief invites expressions of interest for research opportunity](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/07/12/comic-relief-invites-expressions-interest-research-opportunities/)**(
   12 July 2018)
 * **[Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Comic Relief announce £2.4 million Tech for Good fund](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/25/paul-hamlyn-foundation-comic-relief-announce-2-4m-tech-for-good-fund/)**(
   25 January 2019)
 * **[Comic Relief and NET announce new £3.4 million fund for BAME projects](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/07/02/comic-relief-net-announce-new-3-4m-fund-for-bame-projects/)**(
   2 July 2020)

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