The Nominet Trust believes digital technology can transform how we address social challenges. It invests £5 million annually in grants and social investments to support organizations using digital innovations to improve social issues. The Trust aims to demonstrate how technology can redesign approaches to persistent problems and help grantees scale their social and economic impacts. It works closely with Nominet, the .uk domain registry, to further their shared public purpose.

1. www.nominettrust.org.uk
We believe that the use of
digital technology can transform
the way we address big social
challenges, so we bring
together, invest in and support
people and organisations to do
this.
• Social investments and grants of c£5m per year
• Aim to demonstrate how digital technology can be used to redesign the way we address
persistent social challenges
• Aim to support (in addition to funding) to scale the social and economic impact
• Foundation charity of Nominet – the .UK domain registry (10m+ .uk websites)
• Direct relationship with Nominet’s public purpose & strength of their membership

2. £250k plus Impact Investing
£100-150k grant – Social Tech Growth fund –
evidence and prove values
£50k grant, investment support ‘Social Tech
Seed’ – demonstrate potential
Accelerator, boot strapped, R&D, UnLTd
Innovate UK,, Wayra, Healthbox , School
for Social Entrepreneurs , Bethnal Green
Ventures etc

3. www.socialtech.org.uk

4. Podnosh ‘Recording Real Lives’
Capturing voices of disconnected
people for social policy makers
Futuregov ‘Patchwork’
Supporting and improving
communication between key local
authority workers around the family
‘Task Squad’
Matching young people with paid
micro-work
Mobile game to practice breathing
techniques to reduce anxiety
‘Memory Box’
Flowy
Collecting digital memories for
recollection activities for people
suffering from dementia
‘Jointly’
Coordination app for time poor carers

5. Redesigning our approach to social innovation
Affordances of
digital Tech
Social
Entrepreneurship
Designing from
‘first principles’
Consider together, the:
Affordances of digital technology
The values & energy of social
entrepreneurship and social business
Look again at the challenges and
redesign approaches
What’s your ‘theory of change’ (if this, then than) for creating social value?

6. Social Innovation
The successful application of new ideas generated
at the intersection of insight and invention, which
leads to the creation of social or economic value
Insight understanding the context, histories and work of others
Invention finding and developing the best ideas
Application putting ideas into practice
Value capturing outcomes, impact and learning

7. dan.sutch@nominettrust.org.uk
@dansutch@nominettrust