The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists has launched its first Charity IT Award and is looking to support a charity with an innovative technology project.
The livery company has built up a reserve of £750,000 over the past 20 years and has decided to use it to help a charity with an ambitious IT project.
WCIT announced the award at an event yesterday and will open for applications next month. It will shortlist around four charities and ask them to prepare and present a fuller business case in the summer and then make a decision in October.
It has convened a judging panel, chaired by Sir Kenneth Olisa, and is particularly looking for projects at charities with incomes between £2m and £10m that are supporting young people or people with disabilities.
“This is an opportunity for innovative, creative people,” he said at the launch yesterday, “to give hope and lay down a legacy."
Mike Jenkins, clerk of WCIT said: “We are looking forward to identifying a truly exceptional charity and working with it positively to identify ways in which we together use the transformative power of IT to benefit people’s lives.”
WCIT was formed 25 years ago and is the 100th livery company of the City of London.
Its connected charity makes a number of smaller grants to charities each year, which have so far totalled £4m.
More details on the Charity IT Award are available on its website.
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