Nesta Annual Review 2015

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Annual Review 2014–15


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Who we areNesta is an innovation charity with a mission to help

people and organisations bring great ideas to life.

We bring together individuals, know-how, money andother forms of support to drive forward innovationsthat will benefit us all. We work in many differentsectors, from health and education to arts and nance.This booklet will give you a snapshot of the different

projects we’re running across our nine big themes

and the impact we’re making in each of these.To nd out more about all of our work go to:nesta.org.uk


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Annual Review Contents 01

Innovation policy 02

Health and ageing 06

Digital arts and media 10

Government innovation 14

Citizen engagement in public services 18

New models for inclusive economic growth 22

Opportunities for young people 26

Impact investment 30

Future thinking 34

Over the last year...…we’ve launched a £10 million prize fund to solveantibiotic resistance, we’ve mapped the size of the UK’screative economy, completed a comprehensive surveyinto how many digital makers there are among young

people, and launched a new online magazine calledThe Long + Short to inspire innovators everywhere.

We’ve also run an exciting pilot programme to testnew ways of delivering frontline health services,unveiled the top 50 people and organisations changingthe UK, invested in three exciting new social venturesas part of Nesta Impact Investments, and made tenbold predictions about the big social trends and techbreakthroughs that will change our lives this year.

Read on to nd out more about what we’re doingwithin each of our areas of work:


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Innovation PolicyAnnual Review 02

In 2014-15 we worked on a number of inuential eventsand publications. Here are a few of the highlights:

Our agship event for policymakers, Future Shock,looked at the trends that will shape life beyond the2015 general election. Tyler Cowen, Paul Mason andDiane Coyle were among the speakers who addresseda full house, where demonstrations of robots and thelatest technology also took place. The event sparkeda fascinating discussion and trended on Twitter.

Our research and events put us at theheart of the debate on innovation policyin the UK and internationally. Our aim is toplace innovation at the centre of everydaylife and work, to nd and promote thebest ways of putting it into practiceand to use these to achieve social impact.

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After completing a comprehensive mapping of the UK’screative and technology clusters, we made the casethat the UK could create a million creative jobs. Thesegures are proving central to the Government’s ongoingcreative industries policy.

The Innovation Population is the first major surveyof attitudes to innovation and innovation policy. Weidentified five distinct groups in the UK populationwith particular views about innovation, from InnovationFuturists (people who embrace new technology withoutquestion) to Innovation Sceptics (people who havea more questioning view of innovation). The surveyinformed the UK Government’s Science and Innovation White Paper, and we also turned the research intoan online quiz, which proved to be one of the most

popular pieces of content we’ve ever published.

We worked with the Lisbon Council in Brussels to setup the European Digital Forum, a Brussels think tankfocused on the digital economy. One of its publications,

Reforming the European Commission , set out ablueprint for commission reform, including subjectssuch as the digital single market, that was subsequentlyadopted by President Juncker.

Right: Our Future Shock eventshowcased the trendsthat will shape the future

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Our Work Here is Done looked at the consequencesof the rise of a robot economy, and helped openup a wider debate on the economic effects ofautomation. When Small is Beautiful examinedsix highly-innovative small countries and looked atlessons for the UK, and in particular for Scotland.

Our online quiz ‘Whatkind of an innovatorare you?’ was takenover 20,000 times

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Other areas of policy work

We continued to explore the economics of innovation,updating our groundbreaking Innovation Index and

publishing The Other Productivity Puzzle , whichhighlighted a hitherto unknown productivity problemin the UK economy, causing considerable media debate.The End of the Treasury and Rewiring the Brain looked at how changes at the centre of governmentcan enable innovation in the economy as a whole.

Our work has also inuenced policy outside the UK.

We completed a major project for the MalaysianGovernment, developing a new system for businessesto measure their innovation investments. It is now beingrolled out across the country. We also began projectswith other ASEAN countries, and in South America oninnovation policy design, and also received funding tohelp support social innovation in India.

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‘What kind of innovatorare you?’ online quiz

Below: Nesta’s Humanisingthe Robot event


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Health and ageing

Health and ageing

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In 2014-15 we supported a number of innovative projects, many of which are ongoing. We backed digitalentrepreneurs to empower patients and carers throughwearable technology and smartphones in the elds ofParkinson’s disease, alcohol rehabilitation and HIV.We also tested a systems change programme thatcreates a more collaborative culture in health and care.

Long-term conditions now take up 70per cent of the health service budget.To address this Nesta is supporting thehealth and care system to become morepeople powered. Our health and ageingwork has developed at pace this year.A combination of new ideas trialled onthe ground, direct nancial support andcoalition building at a national level hashelped to provide new ways of supportingthe health and care system.

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We directly supported 19 health and ageing innovationsthrough the Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund.This portfolio includes six national patient and carercharities, developing peer-support networks, includingthe Stroke Association, RNIB and Diabetes UK. These

peer-support networks apply the power of socialnetworks to health and care, connecting people withsimilar experiences so they can support one another.

Alongside this we supported intensive volunteeringmodels, such as a British Red Cross programme with

volunteers working with older people at critical times

such as bereavement.My Support Broker (MSB) and North London Caresare two of the social startups we backed. MSB employs

people with direct experience of long-term conditionsas brokers to support others with their personal healthand care budgets, while North London Cares links busy

professionals with older people in their neighbourhoodto create friendships in everyday life.

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Long-term health

conditions take up 70per cent of the healthservice budget. Nestais supporting ‘peoplepowered’ solutions tohelp tackle this

Below: Elsie Hayes receivessupport as part of our

People Powered Health programme


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Annual Review Health and ageing

We supported 19 health

and ageing innovationsto develop and trial newideas aimed at improvinghealthcare in the UK

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Nesta has also tested a new ‘100-day systems changeapproach’ in local health and care economies. Thismethod uses coaching and real-time data to galvaniseaction and create a problem-solving culture. Frontlineteams are supported to solve issues with the backing oflocal leadership, and progress within 100 days is measured.The prototype took place in Essex and focused onreducing unnecessary hospital admissions and improvingdischarge from hospital. Early results are promising, bothin terms of impact and creating a culture of integration andcollaboration across health, care and the voluntary sector.

This year also marked the formal launch of the Coalitionfor Collaborative Care. This national coalition is a groupof organisations committed to shifting the health andcare system to become more people-centred, and Nestahas been instrumental in establishing it. The Governmentis supporting key health and care initiatives – such asthe Integrated Personal Commissioning programme –to incorporate ‘more than medicine’ support between

professionals and people using health services.

Right: Christine Hardie takes part inour Mid-Essex 100-day Challenge

Opposite: Logitude Prize: portrait of Alexander Fleming, by NathanWyburn using antibioticcapsules. The public choseantibiotic resistance as

the focus of the prize Photo: Matt Alexander/PA Wire


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The Longitude Prizereached 84 per centof UK adults

Logitude Prize 2014

On the 300-year anniversary of the original LongitudePrize, Nesta reconvened the Longitude Committee, ledby the Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees, to create anew prize for a new century.

In partnership with the BBC and Innovate UK, welaunched a public vote to choose one of six majorchallenges facing humanity. The challenge that the

public chose to be the focus of the £10 million prizewas antibiotic resistance.

Longitude Prize 2014 captured the imagination of theBritish public thanks to a dedicated BBC Horizon

programme and support from a range of incredible partners, including Amazon and the Science Museum.The launch reached 84 per cent of UK adults, 36 millionTwitter accounts and gained media coverage aroundthe world. It is the rst prize of its kind to incorporatea public vote and, true to the spirit of the original,

anyone can enter.


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Digital arts and media

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Digital R&D Fund for the Arts

Our three Digital R&D funds across Scotland, Walesand England, totalling £8.2 million, have supported70 innovative projects. Supported by the DigitalR&D Fund for the Arts, Nesta, the Arts & HumanitiesResearch Council and public funding by the NationalLottery through Arts Council England, these projects

bring together technology and the arts in excitingand groundbreaking collaborations with the aim ofenhancing audience reach, innovating new artformsand creating new business models for arts andcultural organisations. Highlights from this yearinclude the development of a new mobile offer forthe Royal Opera House, and We Are Colony, a newlm distribution platform.

The UK is a world leader in the arts andmedia. But with funding being cut, weneed to nd new ways of supportingour creative industries so they remaincompetitive in the future. We haveidenti ed three ways to effectively growcreative products and services: researchand development, hyperlocal media, andbusiness mentoring. In 2014-15 we havebeen focussing on these.


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The UK creative industries

were worth £76.9 billionto the UK economy in 2013

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The year ahead will see all the projects completed, soour focus will shift to explore possible next stages forthe individual projects and to ensure that the successesand learning are shared for the benet of all.

Destination Local

We have built on our partnership with InnovateUK to bring greater public investment into thearea of hyperlocal media, specifically to explorethe opportunities presented by the convergenceof content and technology. This includes the launchof the Destination Local Demonstrators competitionand aligned programme in which £2.3 million of

public investment was awarded to three innovativecollaborations: Community Channel South West,Leeds Media Mill and Near You Now. The projectswill bring new concepts and forms of online news,information and content services to local communities.

Creative Business Mentor Network

The UK creative industries were worth a record £76.9 billion to the UK economy in 2013, after growingby almost 10 per cent year on year for the past three

years. Our latest set of mentee companies from thecreative sector is just about to embark on a year ofdedicated support from our fantastic set of industrymentors. We regularly bring together past and presentmentors and mentee companies to share advice, tipsand to discuss some of the challenges they face inrunning a creative business.

Right: Circus Starr project‘Show and Tell’.

Photo: ©Briscoe Photography


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Our Digital R&D Funds across England,Scotland and Wales have supported70 innovative projects bringingtechnology and the arts togetherin groundbreaking collaborations

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Government innovation

Governmentinnovation

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During 2014-15 we published compelling new researchon innovation in the public sector, created practicalguides and toolkits, developed projects using opendata for social good and explored new ways ofsupporting public parks at risk of funding cuts.

Our report Innovation in the public sector: howcan public organisations better create, improveand adapt? brought together the results of many

years of research at Nesta to give an overview ofhow public sector organisations can become moreeffective innovators. We also published a reportWhy motivation matters in public sector innovation, making the case for harnessing the motivationof public servants to innovate.

We need new ideas if we want to preservethe quality and relevancy of our publicservices. As our population increasesand budgets remain tight, our publicservices are reaching breaking point.Our work on government innovationlooks at the different ways we can helpdeliver better public services for less.


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Building skills for innovation

As part of our efforts to build capacity for governmentinnovation, our Innovation Skills team has produced aseries of practical guides on challenge prizes, innovationteams and startup accelerator programmes.

We have also created a DIY Toolkit in partnershipwith the Rockefeller Foundation, to help practitionersgenerate and scale ideas in the eld. This collectionof 30 social innovation tools has been viewed over85,000 times in 201 countries. In addition, we have run

more than 25 capacity building events in over a dozencountries, through strategic engagements with theOECD, UNDP and various national governments.

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Our DIY Toolkit to help

government innovationpractitioners scale ideashas been viewed 85,000times in 201 countries

62 teams have developedopen data for social goodas part of the Open DataChallenge Series

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Open data public services

We know that open data can bring more value to peopleand deliver better public services as a result. To testthis idea, we created the Open Data Challenge Series,in partnership with the Open Data Institute, fundedby the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

(BIS) and Innovate UK.The series saw 62 teams develop products and servicesusing open data for social good in sectors ranging fromeducation and environment to housing and food.


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As part of Rethinking

Parks, successful projectswill raise or save upto 100 per cent of themaintenance costs ofparks their supporting

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Four exciting products that use government-releasedopen data in new ways emerged from this processas winners: Skillsroute helps parents and learnersgure out the best educational choices to make forthose aged 16 or over; Community Energy Managerhelps bring people together around community energy

projects; Movemaker makes it easy for social housingtenants to make use of their right to swap properties;and Foodtrade.menu helps small restaurants to meetregulations on allergen labelling.

Protecting our parksWe have also been exploring new ways of supportingour public parks. The nancial pressure on localcouncils means that parks are facing unprecedentedbudget cuts, so new approaches are needed to preventthem being sold off or going into deep decline. Our

project Rethinking Parks awarded grants totalling £995,000 to 11 teams to test and measure the impactof new business models designed to nancially sustain

parks. Approaches being tested include new forms of

fundraising, new management models and framing parksas solutions to wider social problems. If successful, projects will raise or save up to 100 per cent of thecurrent maintenance costs of parks being supported.

Left: The Open Data Challenge

nalist announcement

Right:

Park Hack, Mark Street Gardens Photo: ©Gensler


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Citizen engagement in public services

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During 2014-15, we have supported practical workto engage people with public services and explored,through our research, the best ways of achieving this,whether through volunteering or social innovation.

From school governors to special constables,there are lots of great examples of peoplehelping people. But we think there could bemore. We want to see citizen engagementin public services grow and have beensupporting a number of innovative newideas and projects aiming to achieve this.


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Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund

The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund, fundedin partnership with the Cabinet Ofce, is nding newways for people to help people. We’ve now invested

£10.9 million in 39 of the most promising innovationsthat mobilise the energy and talents of local people tohelp one another. Projects we have supported includeCode Club, where volunteers run after school clubs tointroduce nine to 11-year-olds to coding, and Volition,which is helping people return to work through using

volunteering to build their skills. To date we havehelped mobilise 37,000 people to assist 100,000 more

people, and we’re expecting this to triple in 2015.

Helping in Hospitals

There are lots of things busy nurses would like to dofor their patients, but aren’t able to due to a lack of time.Helping in Hospitals tasks volunteers with simple butimpactful acts of human kindness in their local hospital– like holding someone’s hand as they recover fromsurgery or bringing a newspaper to someone who can’tgo out. In 2014 we gave £500k of grants to six hospitalsaround the country to mobilise more volunteers in roleswhere their presence will improve patient satisfactionand clinical outcomes.

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Cities of Service: Pride of Telfordat the YMCA building, Telford.

Photo:Telford & Wrekin Council

The Centre for Social

Action Innovation Fundsupports the growth ofinnovations that mobilisepeople’s energy andtalents to help each other


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Cities of Service UK

Replicating a successful US model, we’re backing seventowns and cities that plan to become known for theirgenerosity. They have each started local campaignsasking volunteers to give their time to well-evidenced,impactful volunteering opportunities.

People Helping People: the future of public services

In September we launched our People Helping People:the future of public services report exploring the £34

billion contribution that volunteers in England make bygiving their time to public services. The case studies inthe report explored the best examples of open publicservices. We also held a major conference to launch thereport and helped to connect more than 500 people whoare operating in this area.

Making It Big

Our Making It Big report explored whether socialenterprises could have the potential to scale-up to benet

more people. We charted the experiences of a numberof social innovators’ routes to scale and looked at the practical considerations they faced in doing this. Ratherthan promoting a ‘one size ts all’ scaling strategy, weillustrated the importance of identifying the core of eachsocial innovation, allowing for uniqueness and integrityto be reected in their pathway to ‘making it big’.

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We helped to connect

more than 500people working inopen public services

Right:Cities of Service, Barnsley


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New models for inclusive economic growth

New modelsfor inclusiveeconomic growth

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Our work in 2014-15 fell into two areas: helping toshape government policy in a way that recognises theroles innovation, data and alternative nance can playin growing the economy; and exploring innovativegrassroots economic models, for instance thoseharnessing the power of volunteering and social actionto make the most of resources.

We have been playing an active rolein shaping the economy of the future.In challenging economic times, it hasnever been more important that new andinnovative ways of creating economicgrowth are explored and put into practice.We have been working to nd ways ofmaking this happen.


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A new economy of the future

Our reports on the collaborative economy were animportant input into the Government’s review of thesharing economy, and we have been working closelywith the Government on future policy design.

We produced a series of reports on alternative nance,highlighting the growth and potential of emergingbusiness models such as crowdfunding and peer-to-peerlending. These were widely read and covered in the media.

We also continued our successful research work onaccelerators, concluding our EU-funded Accelerator

Assembly project and beginning a new EU-funded project, the Startup Europe Partnership, with therole of bringing together startups and large businessesacross Europe to encourage business growth.

Datavores, our research programme on how businessesare using data to improve their operations, led to twomajor new reports: one showed the detailed relationshipbetween better use of data and business productivity,the other identied the skills businesses need to makeeffective use of data.

The alternative nance market by platform 2014

P2P business lending

P2P consumer lending

Invoice trading

Equity crowdfunding

Community shares

Rewards crowdfunding

Pension-led funding

Debt-based securities

Donation crowdfunding

Average growth rate 2012–2014

250%

108%

174%

410%

95%

206%

5%

117%

77%

£547m

£749m

£270m

£84m

£34m

£26m

£25m

£4.4m

£2.0m

Below: Findings from Understanding

Alternative Finance report


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Harnessing the success of grassroots models

In the last year we have also backed six organisationsthat are using the power of volunteering and socialaction to help unemployed people to improve theirskills and get back to work. As part of the Centre forSocial Action Innovation Fund we have awarded theseorganisations over £1.5 million to take their proveninnovations to scale. By the end of March 2016 their

projects will mobilise at least 6,000 volunteers, includingcoaches and mentors supporting unemployed people intothe workplace, as well as unemployed people themselves,

volunteering in order to gain skills and experience.For example, Volition builds on the successful ManchesterCathedral Volunteer Programme, which provides astructured ten-week volunteering programme for localunemployed people, some of whom have been out ofwork for years. This highly successful scheme will bereplicated around the country.

We backed six organisations that areusing the power of volunteering andsocial action to help unemployedpeople get back to work. By theend of March 2016 their projects will

mobilise at least 6,000 volunteers

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Right:Volition provides a volunteering

programme for local unemployed people


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Opportunities for young people

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We are focused on three key areas of activity to helpimprove what children learn, how they learn and theservices that are available to them. These areas are:developing digital creativity; technology in education;

and rethinking services for young people.

We want to equip the next generationwith the knowledge, skills and personalattributes to shape the future. The world ischanging, and we need to make sure ourchildren have the tools they need to thrivein this new landscape. Our work is helpingto achieve this.


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Developing digital creativity

We are helping young people to learn how to make thingsusing digital technologies and equipping them with thetools for creativity and innovation in a digital age. This isenabling the next generation to shape the digital landscape,and to not just be shaped by it.

In partnership with Nominet Trust and Autodesk, weare continuing to support our second cohort of DigitalMaker awardees – offering young people engagingexperiences of digital making, including the launch of

the rst UK Fab Lab. We grew the Makethingsdostuff.co.uk platform, reaching 14,000 unique users per month(January 2015), helping young people navigate digitalmaking opportunities, and appeared at events around thecountry, such as Camp Bestival. We held an industry eventat the Houses of Parliament, celebrating the successes ofthe Make Things Do Stuff movement. And we launcheda report, Young Digital Makers , which looked at thelandscape of digital making opportunities for young

people, which was downloaded over 3,000 times in thefollowing month. Finally, we contributed to nationaldebates, such as the House of Lords Select Committeeon Digital Skills, and published policy recommendationson the talent needs of future workers, such as thoseincluded in the Model Workers report.

Above: Fab Lab Devon Photo: Nigel FitzHugh

Below:‘ Is your child a digital maker?’

An online quiz we launched tohelp hone young people’s digital

making skills


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Technology in education

We want to understand how technology can helpteachers and children improve learning. We do thisby supporting a number of tech-based innovationsthat help improve educational attainment.

In partnership with the National Foundation forEducational Research, Ai-Media UK, The Universityof Melbourne and Third Space Learning, we havetested three promising learning technologies inschools: Flipped Learning, the Visible Classroom

(real-time lesson transcription for teacher professionaldevelopment) and Remote Tutoring (using mathematicsgraduates overseas).

Nesta’s Impact Investment Fund invested in threeexciting new ventures which are using technology toimprove educational outcomes and accessibility for

young people: Ai–Media, Cogbooks and GetMyFirstJob.

Our expertise on education technology meant that wehelped inuence national policy discussions throughour contributions to the Government’s EducationTechnology Action Group.

Over 50 initiatives

backed or receivingongoing support,totalling £10 million

The Young Digital Makers reportwhich mapped the landscapeof digital making opportunitiesfor young people in Britain, wasdownloaded over 3,000 timesin the month following its launch

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Rethinking services for young people

We have also been looking at how services for young people could be reimagined to better meet their needs.We have backed innovations in training, education andemployment services, with a focus on co-produced or

volunteer-led provision.

The Centre for Social Action Innovation Fund, in partnership with the Cabinet Ofce, continued tosupport six ‘people-powered’ organisations (ActionTutoring, City Year UK, Code Club, Team Up, TLG,

and The Access Project) developing the skills of young people at school - through mentoring, tutoringand peer-to-peer networks. Code Club, a network of

volunteer-led after school coding clubs, was even fundedto ‘super-scale’, with the aim of becoming a householdname. Four employment services supporting young

people (Steps Ahead, VIY, Task Squad, and Vi-Ability)also received support.

Left:Young Digital Makers Report

Below:Code Club

Photo: Courtesy ofChocolate Films Ltd

Code Club aims to reach

50 per cent of primaryschools by July 2018


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Nesta Impact Investments

Established in November 2012, Nesta Impact Investmentsis a partnership between Nesta, Big Society Capitaland Omidyar Network. The fund invests in ventureswith inclusive and scalable innovations that are runby outstanding entrepreneurs working on the majorissues of ageing, the education and employability of

young people, and the sustainability of communities.

Nesta Impact Investments made three new investmentsworth £1.3 million in 2014-15, taking the total portfolioto eight organisations, in which we have invested £4.67million. New investees include: Ai-Media UK, a socialenterprise that provides live captioning in schools,colleges and workplaces to support those whoare deaf or hard of hearing; Cogbooks, a provider ofadaptive learning technology that delivers personalisededucational content; and GetMyFirstJob, an online

platform that matches young people with appropriateapprenticeship opportunities.

Bethnal Green Venturessupports teams withgroundbreaking ideasthat use technologyto solve social orenvironmental problems

Above: Bethnal Green Ventures Photo: Paul Miller


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Bethnal Green Ventures

Bethnal Green Ventures runs acceleration programmes forearly-stage social entrepreneurs and their organisations.Nesta has provided funding, alongside the Cabinet Ofceand Nominet Trust, to help create 80 new venturesover four years. We believe that creating this earlysupport for ventures is vital if we want to help build a

vibrant and innovative impact-focused entrepreneurialcommunity. BGV has helped to create 21 exciting new

ventures over the last year including TalkLife, Andiamo,HearToday, Club Soda and Birdsong.

Support for impact investment fundsand innovative social nance products

Our portfolio of funds and innovative social nance products has done well over the last year and we arecontinuing to support them. One organisation weinvested in, Resonance, has performed particularly well.Under management, it has built its impact investmentfunds from zero to in excess of £50 million. It has alsolaunched the UK’s rst social investment tax relief fund,something that we researched and lobbied for.

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21 startup social ventures

were supported in thepast year through ourpartnership with BethnalGreen Ventures

One organisation wesupported, Resonance,has built its impactinvestment fundsfrom zero to in excessof £50 million

Right: Ai-Media UK


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Annual predictions

Our annual predictions series picked ten excitingtrends that we think could shape our lives this year.From the rise of the rst UK online political party toa surge in young digital makers, our predictions showthat digital technology continues to be an essential toolfor creating rapid change at unprecedented scale.

Future challenges

Our Centre for Challenge Prizes brought together

global thought leaders to tackle four big issues facingthe world. The Challenges of our Era event includedthe Astronomer Royal Lord Rees, pop star andentrepreneur Will.i.am, and contributors from The Billand Melinda Gates Foundation, the White House andthe World Wide Web Foundation. Big topics includedhow we can protect our oceans and address the dividein global connectivity.

25,000 people read

our predictions series


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Robots

The robot revolution is already happening, andwe’ve set out our future thinking on what that

means for us humans with a new book, Our Work Here is Done .

The book shows how advances in roboticsand articial intelligence will lead to machinesdoing more and more human jobs. We explorewhat that could mean not just for our economybut also for society as a whole. The launchevent brought together robots, engineersand technologists to demonstrate the latestdevelopments in robotic potential.

The Long + Short

In September we launched a new online magazine,The Long + Short . It looks at innovation in a broadsense, including where new ideas are coming fromand how they take hold and expand.

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Above left:Our work here is done

Above right:

Humanising the Robot SocietyBelow:‘Will a robot take my job?’

A Nesta online quiz


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This page (top to bottom):

The Sweetshop of the Future

Neurosis: the world’s rst theme park ride for the mind

My Robot Companion

Opposite:The future of surveillancewith Edward Snowden

Highlights from

FutureFest 2015

To nd out more aboutour ongoing work go to:nesta.org.uk


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