# Fairer Tech Events grants are back

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/04/20/fairer-tech-events-grants-back/
- Published: 2018-04-20T07:11:20+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Doteveryone’s Fairer Tech Events grants are available once again.**

The [Fairer Tech Events grants](https://doteveryone.org.uk/fairer-tech-events/) 
programme provides three grants of up to £500 to help make it easier for people 
who are often excluded from tech events to attend them, speak at them and help run
them.

Opportunities [Doteveryone](https://doteveryone.org.uk) is keen to support with 
the grants include:

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 * Creche facilities to ensure parents can attend or speak at an event
 * Speaker training for people who might not have ever spoken in front of crowds
   before
 * Bursaries to ensure speakers and interns are paid fairly for their time
 * Subsidised travel for people who live outside an event’s host city
 * Resources that improve accessibility, including sign language interpreters, venues,
   transport, audio description, etc.
 * Funding for ethical technology sessions that teach more about empowering and 
   protecting people online

Throughout 2017 Doteveryone supported six successful events, including [Afrotech Fest](https://www.afrotechfest.co.uk/)
for which the grant provided between 20 and 30 free tickets to help more people 
to attend and participate, and an NHS Hack Day in Cardiff. For this event, the grant
paid for a community interest company to help people with chronic illness and learning
difficulties pitch ideas and contribute alongside technologists and healthcare professionals
at the event.

Applications are via the [Doteveryone site](https://doteveryone.org.uk/fairer-tech-events/),
with the deadline for applying 5pm on 11 May.

In a bid to support more diversity in the charity sector, CEO of the Small Charities
Coalition, Mandy Johnson recently put out a call on Twitter asking for [conference speaker recommendations](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/04/08/diverse-list-brilliant-charity-speakers-built-weekend/)
who were non-male and non-white. The result was a list of more than 140 potential
speakers, built in a weekend.

 * **[£10,000 extra available in small grants from Oxford City Council](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/05/22/10000-extra-available-small-grants-oxford-city-council/)**(
   22 May 2018)
 * **[The Society Foundation seeks applications for Summer 2018 funding round](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/09/13/society-foundation-seeks-applications-summer-2018-funding-round/)**(
   13 September 2018)
 * **[Funding news round up: early October 2018](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/10/05/funding-news-round/)**(
   5 October 2018)

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