Tag: hack for good

‘Hack for Good’ with Co-op and Facebook to help call ‘Full Time’ on child food poverty

Stuart Mitchell

Co-op has become the exclusive digital partner for Facebook’s Hack for Good initiative to drive awareness of Marcus Rashford and Tom Kerridge’s Full Time campaign. In response to the UK Government’s uplift of the Healthy Start voucher scheme, Marcus Rashford MBE and Michelin-starred chef, Tom Kerridge, joined forces to launch ‘Full Time: Get Cooking with Marcus & Tom’.  This nationwide initiative (launched in April) is in support of the #EndChildFoodPoverty campaign and is in partnership with Marcus Rashford’s Child Poverty Taskforce, supported by Co-op, Facebook and Instagram. Together, the goal…

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South of England’s Top Tech Talent Seek Charity Challenges for Free Hack Day

Stuart Mitchell

Studio Republic is hosting its annual charity hack day on Friday 17th May to support Mental Health Awareness Week. ‘Hack for Good’ will bring together the South of England’s top tech agency talent to form five teams. In just one day, these teams will create digital solutions in response to five charity briefs completely free of charge. Why is this hack day dedicated to charities?Hack for Good is born out of the need to address the ever widening digital skills gap within charities. A recent report revealed that 75% of…

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What came of Studio Republic’s recent charity Hack for Good?

Stuart Mitchell

On Friday 10th of August Studio Republic ran their first charity hack day, Hack for Good. We covered it here, and felt some might be interested in a follow up. Hacks for good can be polarising in how they’re perceived, with good reason. Coming together to create something for social good is a concept to be applauded. However it’s easy to fall into traps like omitting to involve people working in the field, mistakenly believing that the hack is the solution as opposed to a step on the way to…

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Hack For Good with Studio Republic; local tech agencies get together to create something in one day to benefit homelessness services!

Stuart Mitchell

Ethical digital agency, Studio Republic will be running a hack day on Friday the 10th of August. The idea of a hack day is to bring together creative people, developers, designers, any kind of makers, to block out a day of time and make something from scratch, just for fun, no strings attached. Hack for Good will gather local design and technology agencies to make something worthwhile in one day. Studio Republic are putting their own spin on the hack by introducing a theme for the day. Over the past…

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