Relate: Online platform to enable separating parents to resolve disputes

A quarter of the 12 million children living in the UK have experienced parental separation. The separation process can be traumatic, resulting in issues ranging from problems at school to long term mental health issues. Relate will create a new online service for separating parents. It will contain information, advice, self-help tools and exercises, with the aim of helping separating parents to better understand what the biggest issues are for them, what the priorities are for their families, and start making arrangements. The project will also give parents access to good and affordable help if they get stuck. The platform aims to help parents reach fairer and faster agreements, and learn to do this in ways that minimise conflict, protecting their children and laying the foundations for co-operative parenting. In five years, Relate's online family dispute resolution service will support 55,000 divorcing and separating couples and their over 90,000 dependent children.

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St Giles Trust: Online hub to support former offenders transitioning back to the community

Over 84,000 people are currently in prison in the UK and the majority will be released one day. Former offenders face many barriers, including homelessness, unemployment, financial difficulties, addiction and mental health issues. St Giles Trust will create a dedicated app that builds on their existing peer-to-peer network, and place specially trained former offenders at the heart of a multi-channel support system. The app aims to revolutionise rehabilitation - in the next three years this project will support 80,000 people with criminal convictions and their families in the UK.

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Catch22: App to give young people the skills for work

Over 800,000 young people are out of work, with around 200,000 unemployed for over one year. Despite employment growth forecast, employers still struggle to find young people with the skills they want. Catch22 have created an app to provide young people with the skills to get into work, from running a community project they care about, to identifying the skills they are gaining and rewarding them with employability badges. Catch22 will develop the app to ensure that it meets the needs of the most disadvantaged young people and empower those who may not thrive in traditional settings to take control of their future. Over the next two years, the app will motivate 100,000 of the most disadvantaged young people to gain the right skills for employment.

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Virunga Foundation: Crowdsourcing platform to help protect wildlife and communities in the DRC

The Virunga National Park lies within an area of great conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and its variety of wildlife and abundance of minerals and oil potential makes it a prime target for those trying to illegally benefit from these resources which puts the park rangers' lives at risk every day. The Virunga Foundation will develop a public safety program that aims to provide real-time tracking and mapping of the park, as well as decreased security response times via a low cost phone and voice-based reporting solution. This project will change the way that local people engage with authorities and respond to security threats, and improve the conservation of one of Africa's richest but most threatened national parks. In 10 years, Virunga Foundation hope that this project could build 35 communication hubs that cover four million people in the DRC, enabling them to protect the park and it's precious wildlife and resources.

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Carr Gomm: App to empower people to manage their social care

Carr Gomm regularly deals with people with a broad range of disabilities, who feel a sense of disempowerment when it comes to their own social care. They feel that they have little control over what support they receive, and this can hinder their ability to lead fulfilled lives.

To help combat this, Carr Gomm are developing an app that will allow them to proactively choose who in their support team they want to see and when they want to see them. It will also allow them to monitor how much of their support budget they have used, and to record social care outcomes in preparation for review by their local authority. They can then show the difference that the social care package has made to their lives. Already in limited use in Scotland, Carr Gomm will use the latest technologies to transform ClickGo into a product that is available to more people across the world.

In three years, Carr Gomm's Click Go project will enable at least 13,000 people across the UK to exercise direct choice and control of their social care support.

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Shift: Digital games to help improve young people's mental health

One in four people will be affected by a mental health disorder at some point in their lives, half of which start by the age of 14.

Shift will develop digital game technology to help young people strengthen their emotional resilience and manage stress, with the ultimate result of increasing their well-being and reducing the incidence of mental health problems. Using a combination of a wearable wristband sensor and Android game technology, the game monitors the players heart rate and rewards players who stay calm under pressure. Shift will further develop and launch the game, as well as create a program for schools to utilise it in well-being training programmes. In three years, Shift's digital game will train 35,000 young people to strengthen their emotional resilience and improve their mental health.

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