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We’re now just a podcast* but we’ve also ran slack communities, volunteer matching schemes and live speaker led events in Manchester. We’ve also advised on council digital strategies and supported
Some things we’re proud of:
Monthly events and community
We’ve ran 50 local Manchester events over the last 5 years. Showcasing the best practical projects and advice from tech for good across the UK. We’ve worked together and co-designed new Stop Funding Hate campaigns, talked about funding, health tech, Ai, data, the environment, campaigning, diversity, accessibility, measurement, lawtech, Govtech, VR, games, worker tech, tech and the youth, circular design, democracy, ed tech, inclusion…. You name it, we’ve covered it.
We’ve had 50 - 100 people at each event from academia, public, private sector, the charity sector, we estimated around 3,000 people overall. We can’t imagine how much pizza that was! Thanks to everyone who came, chatted and then chatted some more in the pub afterwards. You’re real gems, but now it’s time for us to retire (for now at least**) from the events game
“I appreciate the community feel and the important ethical discussions that take place. The speakers open my mind to new approaches of tackling social problems.”
Help A Charity
We provided tech mentors and volunteers to help charities and community groups in Greater Manchester think about how they can use technology to provide better services to the communities they work with… and in some cases, we’ve helped to build it. We had over 70 requests for help and matched 45 charities and volunteers during the first Covid lockdown.
“We got connected with an amazing volunteer who gave us several practical solutions for our forthcoming project. A big thank you to our volunteer for an incredibly inspiring and informative one to one training session in social media strategy. Their support has been overwhelming!”
*”just a podcast” makes it sound easy. Ask Paul, it isn’t.
**That sounds like a threat.