Innovation for All Foundation

2023 recipient: Certitude Support

Certitude is London’s leading adult social care provider for people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health needs. As a not-for-profit organisation, we are proud to have supported people across London since 1990.

We believe everyone is unique. We support people to develop new skills, meet new people and live the life they want – so they can bring their own unique brilliance to the world. We all experience the world in different ways. We all have our own hopes and dreams, goals and ambitions. We believe there is strength in this diversity – and nowhere is that more evident than in London.

2023 recipient: Single Homeless Project

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.

We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change.

From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

2022 recipient: Hackney Quest

Hackney Quest is a long-running independent charity that has been supporting young people, parents, families, and the wider community in Hackney since 1988 through a wide range of projects and programmes. The funding will be used to support an innovative mentoring programme with a particular focus on a one year-targeted programme for young black boys/men which will be facilitated by a member of the Hackney Quest team with expertise in this area. Through this programme, all young people at Hackney Quest will have access to monthly in-person workshops, 1-1 mentoring sessions, careers clinics and access to a professional and peer network, having life-long impact.

2022 recipient: Whizz-Kidz

Whizz-Kidz empowers young wheelchair users by providing the wheelchairs, equipment, support and confidence-building experiences they need, and campaigns for a more inclusive society. The Fund will be used for the Explorer Mini project: Explorer Mini can be used for children as early as 8 months old, giving a young child the opportunity to increase their independence and confidence through exploration. They can start interacting with their home safely and independently, just at the same time a baby or toddler might learn to crawl and walk. The technical designs provides enough support to enable a child to start developing strength, endurance and postural control; and is a reusable model to have a wide impact on many growing children, now and into the future.

2021 recipient: REDRESS

REDRESS is n non-governmental organisation that pursues legal claims on behalf of survivors of torture not just in the UK, but around the world, to obtain justice and reparation for violations against their human rights. Redress aim to empower survivors to access justice through cases against governments, civil cases against individuals, and cases where they advocate for law enforcement bodies to prosecute perpetrators under the principle of universal jurisdiction. Their approach is strategic, so that as well as representing an individual, they target the policy reasons that enabled the torture to take place, by building a campaign that uses advocacy, community engagement, and communications to influence change. REDRESS plan to use their grant to fund a technological solution to the problem of a lack of security when obtaining access to justice for survivors of torture. Their plans involve developing an application to enable obtaining and uploading of case details and client testimonies, augmenting both their work on the International Accountability Platform for Belarus for collecting sensitive data relating to claims of torture, but also projects relating to atrocities in Nigeria and Chad.

2021 recipient: Lives Not Knives

Lives Not Knives is a youth led charity, originally focused on young people in London. LNK works to prevent knife crime, serious youth violence and anti-social behaviour, engaging and educating young people who have been disadvantaged by socio-economic factors, and supporting them to improve their future prospects. LNK runs school roadshows, 1:1 mentoring, group mentoring and workshops for referrals from schools and pupil referral units. LNK empowers young people and the wider community, towards a more positive future with support for successful engagement in education, training or employment. Since the start of the CoVid pandemic, when LHK transformed much of their work to online, LNK has had a huge demand for greater resources for teachers, parents and students. LNK aim to use their fund to respond to this growing demand, that has spread across London boroughs to nationwide. They aim to use technology to develop more resources in order to have a greater reach in the UK, with an ultimate aim to train the teachers to be better equipped to raise the subject of youth violence and identify young people who are at risk before they are excluded from mainstream school and prevent them from becoming involved in crime.

2021 recipient: Skiggle

Skiggle is a UK based specialist disability charity that provides vital, potentially lifesaving, help and support to disabled people, their families and carers. Coming to the aid of people with disabilities when they need it most, Skiggle works in two ways. Firstly, the charity funds and operates a unique SOS emergency alert service harnessing the power of specialist technology to answer urgent calls for help for disability care products and equipment from people all over the UK. Secondly, Skiggle runs a regulated online marketplace where people can safely donate and distribute disability and special needs care products and equipment to those who need them. Using their Innovation For All Foundation grant, Skiggle plans enhance their SOS alert mapping facility, develop their technology to implement an internal messaging system to safeguard child carers who need to use Skiggle’s SOS alert service and online marketplace, and to introduce a Skiggle app with adaptations for child carers.

2020 recipient: FareShare

FareShare is the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and food waste – diverting surplus food, which would otherwise go to waste, onto people at risk of hunger via our network of frontline charities and community groups nationwide • FareShare provides food to 11,000 charities and community groups in all four nations across the UK – including school breakfast clubs, community centres, homeless shelters and food banks • We provide the equivalent of 2 million meals a week for people who might not otherwise eat • Two thirds of people accessing FareShare food are children and families

2020 recipient: National Autistic Society

The National Autistic Society is the UK’s leading charity for autism. We are here to transform lives, change attitudes and create society that works for autistic people. We transform lives by providing support, information and practical advice for the 700,000 autistic adults and children in the UK, as well as their three million family members and carers. We change attitudes by improving understanding of autism and the difficulties many autistic people face. We also work closely with businesses, local authorities and government to help them provide more autism-friendly spaces, deliver better services and improve laws.