Digital and technology
Our award-winning digital and technology department provides projects and initiatives to improve health and well-being, quality of life and possibilities that deliver greater independence through digital inclusion.
Our projects
Our digital projects provide opportunities for supported people to gain new skills, increase independence, and improve health and well-being.
Insight app’s Volunteering Hub
Insight into Wales
Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPA)
Digital Essential Skills
Digital Solutions
Smart Housing
Insight App
Our most recent awards
Cardiff Business Awards, 2023
Finalist of Third Sector Organisation of the Year 2023
The Cardiff Business Awards 2023 is the ninth edition of the event, which celebrates the best businesses in Cardiff, the capital city of Wales
Welsh Charity Awards, 2022
Winners of Digital Pioneers Award 2022
The Welsh Charity Awards, organised by WCVA, recognise and celebrate the fantastic contribution charities, community groups, not-for-profits, and volunteers make to Wales by highlighting and championing the positive difference we can make to each other’s lives. The Digital Pioneers Award celebrates a group or organisation which has used digital in an innovative way to make a huge difference to people’s lives.
Understanding Disability Awards, 2022
Winners of Professional category 2022
The ‘Understanding Disability Awards’ arranged organised the Cardiff & Vale Parents Federation to celebrate the contributions and works completed to ensure people with a disability are provided with exceptional services.
Innovate Trust was awarded as the winner of the professional category for the impact the organisation made by ensuring that supported people are digitally included through our innovative digital initiatives and award-winning Insight app.
Health Working Wales, 2021
Winners of Best Covid-19 Company Response for Supporting the Community
This category recognises those employers that demonstrated a high level of corporate social responsibility by stepping up to provide support to others outside their organisation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Uncertainty and anxiety affected wellbeing and mental health around the world and there were many communities and groups in the population that needed help which drew great responses from local employers.
AbilityNet, 2020
Social Business Wales, 2019
Winners of Tech for Good Award 2019
Cymorth Cymru, 2018
We have our own free-to-use digital community app called Insight
How we are working to bridge the digital divide
We are leading the way in enhancing opportunities for supported people through digital innovation and inclusion.
People digitally included
Activities & events
Devices gifted
Our pledge & commitment
Pledge 1 - Employees and volunteers
We ensure that all employees and volunteers have an opportunity to develop basic digital skills and that they take advantage of this opportunity.
Pledge 2 - Health and well-being
We ensure that digital inclusion principles are embedded into our day-to-day activities, and we support the role digital tools have in managing health and well-being.
Pledge 3 - Collaboration
We encourage and support our employees and volunteers to help others get online. We ensure they have the confidence to develop basic digital skills and help other organisations to embrace digital tools.
Pledge 4 - Resourcing a department
We commit support and resources for digital inclusion activities and initiatives in Wales in whatever ways we can, to ensure every citizen can engage digitally
Pledge 5 - Best practice
We share best practices and activities around digital inclusion with the Digital Communities Wales – Digital Confidence, Health and Well-being programme so that our activities are coordinated for maximum impact and measured consistently.
Pledge 6 - Sharing
We look to build local partnerships amongst organisations which want to share ideas and coordinate activities with others in their area.
We are committed to ending digital exclusion and are a digital charter-accredited organisation.
Our latest news
Read the latest news from the Digital and Technology team at Innovate Trust.