Kilburn & Strode: Innovation for All Foundation
Overview
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 their DNA since 1906. For over 100 years they've helped the best organisations protect their technology and brands in the most competitive markets. Now, they're enabling a new generation of brilliance to take off to their full potential and spark innovative, positive change in our world (and beyond).
Theme
The Fund’s theme is “Innovation for good”, with an objective “through innovation, to sustainably provide benefit for those in need”.
Funding Levels
A number of grants of £10,000, £20,000 or £30,000 are available.
Who Can Apply
Registered charities based in the UK or overseas may apply.
Applicants must supply:
- A copy of your organisation’s governing documents
- Your charity number (or evidence of charitable registration if registered outside of the UK*)
- Netherlands applications: Please confirm your organisation is registered as an Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling (ANBI)
- A copy of your most recent set of accounts
- A list of all current trustees and biographies
- Legal and working names of your organisation, and company number
- Name and position of main contact, and full contact details
What have they funded
The Foundation's theme for grantmaking is 'Innovation for Good'.
Successful past initiatives have included innovative approaches for:
- Prevention of youth crime and anti-social behaviour.
- Provision of emergency support for people with disabilities.
- Obtaining justice and reparations for victims of torture and human rights violations.
- REDRESS, a 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 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.
- 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 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.
- Skiggle is a UK based specialist disability charity that provides vital, potentially lifesaving, help and support to disabled people, their families and carers. 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.
- FareShare, the UK’s biggest charity fighting hunger and food waste, provides the equivalent of 2 million meals a week to people who might not otherwise eat.
- National Autistic Society helping to 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 including through improved research nd understanding of autism.
See link for more previous winners.