Tech to Unite Us will open for applications in July

It’s all change at one of the UK’s largest social tech charities.

The Nominet Trust has evolved into Social Tech Trust, with Social Investment Business becoming a new member and strategic partner.

Social Tech Trust (STT) says it will continue its commitment to supporting socially motivated tech with a new £500,000 grant funding programme for early stage ventures.

The grant fund, Tech to Unite Us, will support ventures demonstrating how tech can reach its transformative potential when it is driven to address one of the greatest social challenges of our time - inequality.

Tech to Unite Us will open for applications in July.

Social Investment Business chief executive Nick Temple, previously deputy chief executive at Social Enterprise UK, will join the board of STT as the two organisations form a new partnership focused on achieving social impact with tech.

Bill Liao, chair of STT, said, "Powerfully leveraging tech with purpose will be strengthened by the trust's new standing as a key independent contributor to the UK tech ecosystem, in partnership with Social Investment Business.

“We are all looking forward to delivering our next round of grants to empower a new generation of tech that transforms lives."

Hazel Blears, chair of Social Investment Business, said: “I am delighted that we are entering into a strategic partnership with Social Tech Trust. New technology is reshaping the world we live in and the world that charities and social enterprises operate in, attracting new talent and creating new models of change.

“There’s never been a more exciting and important time to enter into this partnership with the potential to transform people’s lives for the better.”