Meet the winners
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RNIB
Smart glasses to improve life for people with sight loss
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Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Crowdsourcing data to help prevent mosquito-borne diseases
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WeFarm
Peer-to-peer communication service to help farmers improve their livelihoods
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Centrepoint
Data analytics to keep young people off the streets
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Relate
Online platform to enable separating parents to resolve disputes
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Shift
Digital games to help improve young people's mental health
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Catch22
App to give young people the skills for work
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Carr Gomm
App to empower people to manage their social care
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Virunga Foundation
Crowdsourcing platform to help protect wildlife and communities in the DRC
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St Giles Trust
Online hub to support former offenders transitioning back to the community
About the challenge
The Google Impact Challenge supports UK charities using technology to tackle problems and transform lives around the world. Charities shared their ideas and we asked you to vote for your favourites from our top ten.
The top four winners, including the people's choice project and three projects selected by our panel of judges, received £500,000. The additional six finalists received £200,000.
All ten charities are also recieving support from Google.org and Nesta to make their vision a reality.
Supported by
Meet the judges
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Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation
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Emma Freud
Broadcaster and Director, Comic Relief
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Peter Jones CBE
Dragon and Entrepreneur
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Jacquelline Fuller
Director, Google.org
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Matt Brittin
Vice President, Google in Northern and Central Europe
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Helen Goulden
Executive Director, Nesta Innovation Lab