Innovation for All Foundation

Our Innovation for All Foundation is again giving grants to a number of charities with the theme 'Innovation for Good'.

Our company’s existence is not isolated. It’s part of a wider system of people, values, other organisations and nature. We care about the wider Innovative Community in which we work and live, and the impact we have.

To give something back, we donate a percentage of our annual profits to our charity Fund, the Innovation For All Foundation. The Fund’s theme is “Innovation for good”, and its objective is “through innovation, to sustainably provide benefit for those in need”. Together, we can have a lasting, positive impact.

The 2023 application window is now closed. We will announce the grant winners soon.

Hear from Lives Not Knives & REDRESS

2021 grant recipients Lives Not Knives and REDRESS discuss their mission and vision for the future and explain the projects aided by the Innovation For All Foundation.

Our 2022 recipients: Aanvraag project Gamen voor kinderen met een handicap

Project gaming for children with disabilities: aims to ensure that children with disabilities can participate fully in our society and have the same opportunities for development. Existing gaming sets are not often suitable for children with disabilities. The Fund will be used for a project that aims to make tailor-made technical adjustments and development of innovative tools to make it possible to play games with a disability. Example adjustments are modified joysticks, foot controllers, and blow-suction switches where buttons are operable with breath. These adjustments, along with practical advice and extra guidance for children can ensure children with disabilities can relax by playing games with their peers.

Our 2022 recipients: 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.

Our 2022 recipients: 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.

I can’t wait to see the flurry of applications that come in every year. The grants always go to charities with an amazing cause and I feel privileged to be able to see first-hand, the positive impact they make.

Gregory St Clair Jones

IFAF board member

The sky's the limit!

From investing in education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in disadvantaged communities, to supporting organisations that provide opportunities in innovation, science and technology that otherwise would not get the break, the foundation aims to give people the chance in life they deserve. Giving back has been in our DNA since 1906. For over 100 years we've helped the best organisations protect their technology and brands in the most competitive markets. Now, we're enabling a new generation of brilliance to take off to their full potential and spark innovative, positive change in our world (and beyond).

I am really proud to be a part of the Innovation for All Foundation board. Now, more than ever, it is important that we give back to our communities. The fund directly supports local initiatives and makes a real impact on people’s lives.

Amy Ure

IFAF board member

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.

2020 recipient: Remap

Remap is a national charity consisting of volunteer engineers using their skills in areas such as metalwork, woodwork, IT and electronics, to design and produce unique custom made equipment, to enable greater independence for people with disabilities. The engineers work closely with their clients to carefully craft the devices to suit their ability and requirements. The service is free of charge and widely used by the NHS and Social Services when commercial disability aids are unsuitable for specific needs.

2019 recipient: Generating Genius

Generating Genius work with young people to inspire, motivate and support them to pursue STEM subjects at school and to ultimately consider careers in these fields. They work with those underrepresented in higher education and in STEM. This includes females of any ethnic group, black African and black Caribbean males and mixed-race young people – all of whom are generally from lower-income households and would be the first in their immediate family to go to university.

2019 recipient: Lifeshare

Lifeshare is a voluntary organisation established to help meet the needs of homeless and vulnerable people in Manchester and Salford. Their key objectives are to identify street homelessness and help obtaining emergency accommodation, signposting other relevant agencies and information for support; to alleviate aspects of poverty and hardship through redistribution of resources and to assist people to access Primary Health Care and to promote health and harm reduction.

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