February 2022

Listening to Founders – Designing Approaches for Investing in Social Tech, shares insights from 23 Social Tech ventures exploring the current funding landscape for Social Impact initiatives and what can be done to help ventures scale their impact. Download PDF>


October 2020

We’re incredibly proud to share our Impact Journey, reflecting on our work from the last two years as Social Tech Trust.  Read our report to find out more about the impact of our work to transform lives with tech. Download PDF>


June 2020

We’re looking for an exceptional candidate to be our Operations and Finance Director. View the job description.Download PDF>


July 2018

Take a look at the headlines from Social Tech Seed 4, 5 and 6.Download PDF>


Complete the Social Tech Trust Canvas template and submit it with your Stage 2 Innovate Social Tech, Tech to Unite Us grant application.Download PDF>


Download the Social Tech Trust Canvas Guidance Paper to help you tell the story of your organisation and to complete the Canvas template for your Stage 2 grant application.Download PDF>


Download the Social Tech Trust Project Plan Template to complete and upload with your stage two Innovate Social Tech, Tech to Unite Us grant application.Download PDF>


Download the Social Tech Trust Project Budget Template to complete and upload with your stage two Innovate Social Tech, Tech to Unite Us grant application.Download PDF>


June 2018

In 2017, we launched Digital Reach to support the UK’s efforts to increase digital skills among some of our nation’s most disadvantaged young people. Here, we share our insightsDownload PDF>


May 2018

A study by Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI) commissioned by Nominet Trust, Comic Relief and Indigo Trust, explores how the social tech ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa can be strengthened to help grow social tech initiatives.Download PDF>


April 2018

Take a look at the headlines from Social Tech Seed 6. Data recorded, April 2018.Download PDF>


Take a look at the headlines from Social Tech Seed 5. Data recorded, April 2018.Download PDF>


Take a look at the headlines from Social Tech Seed 4. Data recorded, April 2018.Download PDF>


March 2018

Social Tech Trust Trustees' Report and Financial Statements, 2018Download PDF>


February 2018

In our new podcast series, we meet the experts and activists to ask those all-important questions about socially motivated tech.Listen to the podcast>


To celebrate five years of NT100, our latest report reveals some key insights about what it takes to enable social tech ventures to scale and looks at future trends in socially transformative tech.Download PDF>


January 2018

Social Tech Seed 5 visualisationDownload PDF>


July 2017

Digital Reach reimagines digital skills delivery by putting expert youth organisations at the heart of programme - those with existing and trusted relationships with the hardest-to-reach young people.Download PDF>


May 2017

Evaluating the social impact achieved by Nominet Trust's flagship "Social Tech" programmes since 2013Download PDF>


December 2016

Discover some of the inspiring pioneers featured in the 2016 NT100, who are putting digital tech to work to solve the social challenges in our everyday lives.Download PDF>


The NT Canvas helps social tech organsiations tests their assumptions and supports the creation and assessment of a business model and a business plan. Try it out here.Download PDF>


NT Canvas Paper

Dec 2016

Hear how the NT Canvas enables socially motivated tech ventures to begin testing their core business model right from the outset.Download PDF>


October 2016

December 2015

November 2014

October 2014

A STATE OF THE ART REVIEW written for Nominet Trust by Julian Sefton-Green and Lucy BrownDownload PDF>


September 2014

Measurement is an important part of developing any business and a social business is no different. This paper explores how you can measure the growth of your venture.Download PDF>


August 2014

This paper describes the way in which the three values of social tech - social, user and financial - interrelate at different stages of a venture’s development. It also hints at the dynamic, changing nature of the ways these values are articulated and demonstrated over time.Download PDF>


July 2014

A Better Web

Jul 2014

This paper explores how we can reclaim a sense of control over technologies and respond to our unease around the internet.Download PDF>


March 2014

Understanding how digital tools are made helps us to recognise how they afford, constrain and mediate our actions – from the many new opportunities for connection that they afford, to the obvious character constraints of Twitter to the less obvious constraints of how a search engine presents only the ‘relevant’ links to you.Download PDF>


December 2013

August 2013

This report brings together a lot that is known about the role digital technology can play in later life, but it also opens up new ways of thinking about the use of digital technology across the lifecourseDownload PDF>


March 2013

A STATE OF THE ART REVIEW written for Nominet Trust by Julian Sefton-GreenDownload PDF>


January 2013

Exploring the challenges of using digital technology to develop new models of support for older people Download PDF>


August 2012

Oxford Internet Institute explores why there is a significant minority of young people who are not able to navigate or connect properly in our online world.Download PDF>


July 2012

A STATE OF THE ART REVIEW written for Nominet Trust by Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt, Thanassis Tiropanis, Kieron O’Hara and Tim DaviesDownload PDF>


June 2012

The Digital Edge

Jun 2012

A PROVOCATION PAPER written for Nominet Trust by Tim Davies, David Wilcox and Alex FarrowDownload PDF>


May 2012

This document provides a baseline of data around employment and digital technology. Download PDF>


April 2012

This insight paper aims to stimulate thinking and raise questions that may inspire new debates, approaches, tools and technologies to better address the multiple challenges, needs and issues facing young people, particularly those who are out of work or not in education or training. Download PDF>


November 2011

A State of the Art Review written for Nominet Trust by Dr Eleanor Burt and Professor John Taylor Download PDF>