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Wiltshire Digital Drive (WDD) is a purpose-driven Community Interest Company (CIC), committed to bridging the digital divide, encouraging inclusion and achieving real social impact. Schools, charities, not-for-profit organisations, councils and families have all directly benefitted from WDD’s purpose-led activities — we have encouraged businesses and individuals to think differently about technology and e-waste.
With the digital divide being a huge societal issue that is largely overlooked, the dedication of WDD’s team of volunteers, combined with over 600 hours of pro-bono support to date from founding member Naturally Social and partners, has led to almost 3,000 devices being refurbished and redistributed since 2020 while simultaneously reducing landfill waste and resultant CO2 emissions locally.

WDD is fully focused on extending the life cycle of technology for as long as possible, with any tech unable to be refurbished or redistributed being responsibly recycled and contributing to the circular economy.

WAC is a mobile app that allows hourly-paid workers and those in the gig economy to track their hours and earnings in one place, and get live payslip estimates, including tax, to ensure they are being paid correctly by their employer. We are building a global community and empowering them to take control of their working lives, receive fair pay and have access to opportunities to live the life they deserve. Since we launched in 2020, we’ve amassed over 300,000 installs, with 25,000 monthly active users recording more than 700,000 shifts each month who are claiming back thousands of pounds of unpaid wages from their employer.

Groundsure is a leading UK environmental and climate data authority. We give land and property professionals expert information on risks including land contamination, flooding and ground stability, as well as forward guidance on potential climate risks, to advise their clients in the transaction.

We provide high value, property-specific opinions and analysis of land use, turning complex environment and climate data into clear and simple insights. This enables our clients to make better informed land and property decisions and more positive outcomes for our climate-challenged society.

For 20 years, our business was built on providing environmental data and risk assessments to property lawyers, conveyancers and environmental consultants based on past and current trends. Now, with ClimateIndex, we have pivoted the business to project into the future on how property and land assets could be affected by the growing impacts of climate change.

We believe that better energy literacy and climate literacy can lead to greater action in society (individual behaviour change and collective climate action). The Sustainable Futures Energy Forum, piloted and hosted by Sustainability First is an online discussion forum bringing together young people aged 18 – 25 and policymakers from the energy sector's regulator, Ofgem. Designed to share young people's perspectives and experiences, we could highlight the realities of living within our climate crisis and a cost of living crisis, and bring those lived experiences to bare on specific policy areas being developed by Ofgem for current and future energy consumers in Britain.

Alessandra La Via started her career as a corporate accountant in the Big4 before moving to FTSE 250/FTSE 100 head offices. In her successful career, she came to experience first-hand the impact of the ‘always on’ culture on wellbeing. Alessandra founded Live More Offline to realise her ambitions for positive change through promoting healthier digital workplace cultures. She is a thought leader in the fields of digital wellbeing and culture.

Live More Offline is a leading consultancy and training provider for wellbeing in the digital workplace. Our mission is to help organisations to renegotiate their relationship with technology to enhance wellbeing, performance and belonging in digital workplaces. We bring our customers through a journey of organisational change that sees them transform counter-productive digital habits, such as presenteeism and the myth of multitasking, into smarter ways of working, stronger virtual connections and leadership that models best practice in the digital workplace.

Acacium Group are a leading global healthcare delivery partner. With over 40 years of experience and a global footprint, we improve people’s lives through expert healthcare, social care and life sciences. By combining access to workforce, technology and sector expertise, we increase the sustainability of the global healthcare system, from early-stage clinical research right through to palliative care.

In 2020, the Group launched the Viewpoint, an experience management program that captures how agency healthcare workers feel. To date, Viewpoint has collected 100,000 individual feedback responses from temporary healthcare workers of all specialisms in 19 Acacium Group businesses operating in 1000 sites across the UK. These insights support healthcare providers to identify and overcome barriers to workforce engagement, productivity and retention to improve the employee experience and deliver better patient care.

Electronic Prescribing Service (EPS) has been successful in primary care for 18 years and Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) in collaboration with NHS England and Cleo, successfully deployed EPS as a first of type to secondary care, digitising paper processes of sending prescriptions to pharmacies. Before EPS, prescribers were hand-writing paper prescriptions, posting or delivering them, or patients often having to travel to collect. Now prescriptions are sent electronically to the patients chosen pharmacy, enabling sustainability, reducing carbon footprint from delivery, increasing patient safety, and freeing time for prescribers to see more patients in clinics.

Prescribers recognised that existing processes lacked standardisation, resulting in inefficiencies, wasting valuable time and resources. Patients would either attend site to collect prescriptions, have them posted or staff had to make trips for drop-offs and medication collections.

Clean air is crucial for creating healthy urban environments where people live and work, both today and in the future. Enhancing air quality reduces the adverse effects of Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) pollutants on human health and fosters better living and working conditions.

As set out in Defra’s 2019 Clean Air Strategy, transport is a significant source of air pollution. The immediate air quality challenge is to reduce NO2 emissions in the areas where concentrations of these harmful gases currently exceed legal limits.

The UK Government has overall responsibility for meeting air quality standards. Defra in partnership with DfT has lead responsibility for meeting these targets. They setup the Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU) to deliver the Government’s NO2 reduction strategies with levers for action shared across Government departments, as well as Local Authorities (LAs). Strong cooperation and collaboration between these stakeholder communities is critical to tackling air pollution effectively.

In December 2021 Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board successfully bid for NHS funding for an accelerator programme, under the ‘Putting People at the Heart of Care’ white paper to look at how the impact of falls and subsequent admissions/need for social care could be reduced by using sensor-based falls detection technology.

Essex, focused on testing cutting edge, 4D imaging radar technology which detects, tracks and monitors activity and movement in real time across four different settings including People in the community, Sheltered Housing, Extra Care Housing and Care Homes.

It was anticipated there would be a reduction in false alarm calls in comparison to traditional wearable falls detectors. It would reduce ambulance call outs and act as an alternative device for those with cognition or memory issue or those not able to wear or press a traditional style pendant device.

Screen Share has grown from a lockdown bedroom-project into the largest provider of technology to refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. We are the only refugee digital inclusion charity to cover the whole of the UK. We have so far digitally included 671 refugees by distributing laptops, phones, tablets, software, SIM Cards and digital skills training. We have done this by mobilising dozens of people in the tech sector to run basic refurbishment on devices in their own time and advocate for donations of tech. We are run by a combination of tech and refugee sector professionals. We have so far digitally included 671 refugees.

The economic reality facing charities is bleak. Shrinking budgets, political uncertainty and turbulent economies are all putting extra financial pressure on the charity sector. For the majority of charities, public funding has shrunk, competition for grants is high, and capacity is stretched even further than ever, yet the demands aren’t slowing down. Big Give's Green Match Fund is a campaign creating impactful digital match funding solutions to address the pressing challenges facing environmental charities.

Through the innovative use of technology, the Green Match Fund harnesses the power of digital fundraising and real-time match funding to connect larger donors, the giving public and charities. So £50 from the public becomes £100, doubling the difference of contributions to help charities reach twice as many people. Our 2023 campaign raised over £4.3m for 178 charities, exemplifying the transformative potential of digital fundraising solutions in addressing environmental challenges through supporting charities.

Connexin is a UK-based smart technology and digital specialist, a provider of the best quality products and services across three areas: broadband, connected places and digital training. As part of connected places, Connexin specialises in end-to-end solutions for smart water metering, working with water utility companies to deploy Smart Water Networks to allow them to respond proactively and drive efficiency.

Primary Goal are the leading Digital Training provider to the Education Sector, Nation Wide. Through Louise's leadership, Primary Goal secure funds through large corporate ESG and CSR funding to provide this training free of charge to all of those who work in the Education sector, benefiting not only those individuals, however in turn their own learners, expanding the use of digital ability across the Nation. Primary Goal is unique as it is supported by Microsoft, Google and Apple.

While the world’s been using Generative AI (GenAI) to help them manage their jobs and businesses more efficiently, Swindon Borough Council have been focusing on how GenAI can be used for positive societal impact. In a brilliant collaboration with a group of local Swindon residents who are Experts by Experience of a Learning Disability, Swindon Borough Council, supported by AWS have harnessed the power of Generative AI to aid independence for the learning disability community. "Simply Readable" is an innovative co-created solution that converts complex documents into the accessible Easy Read format. This project is not just about technology; it's about making a real impact in people's lives and Swindon are open-sourcing this solution, license-free, worldwide, enabling "Simply Readable" to redefine accessibility for an inclusive world.

Jade is a game-based platform that accelerates the education of neurodiverse children. The solution has 1,500 games that stimulate cognitively and track cognitive data during gameplay, which is converted to educational prognosis and developmental reports. We also train teachers to use this data for an individualized educational approach based on the needs of each child.

The Government Climate Campus is an innovative learning programme by Apolitical to build climate capable governments in this critical decade. The Climate Campus is a collaboration between Apolitical, governments, world class academic institutions and philanthropy. Designed exclusively for and with public servants, the Climate Campus features online courses on climate and nature topics, communities of practice, and expert-led masterclasses and convenings. In under a year, Apolitical has already provided training to more than 30,000 public servants, giving them the knowledge and skills needed to deliver on climate targets.

The Games Leadership Network CiC is a non-profit organisation that promotes best Leadership Practices in the Games Industry by offering free Coaching, Training and support Network to Leaders, decision makers and change managers within the Games Industry.