The Worshipful Company of Engineers in co-operation with UK-based charity Tech4All, offers an award for the most creative engineering-based solutions for the alleviation of poverty. The award is intended to encourage engineers to use their skills and expertise to create solutions to alleviate the causes or consequences of poverty or hardship.

Eligibility:

• Entries must be received by March 1, 2025.
• Entrants can be independent, or part of a recognised body, but financial control processes must be present and openly reported.

Award:

A cash award of £20,000 will be paid to the entrant, assessed by the judges to have a realistic prospect of alleviating poverty or hardship. The judges may award runners up substantial discretionary prizes.

Entries will be judged against the following criteria.

Does the proposed solution address the causes or consequences of underlying issues leading to people suffering poverty or hardship across a broad range of areas including, but not limited to, health, mobility, social exclusion, education, banking or location.

The judges expect the entrants to have identified the evidence as to how the causes or consequences of poverty can be relieved or mitigated. In particular, the evidence should include how the solution will benefit those who are in poverty or suffering hardship and how that benefit can be or has been measured.

Projects must be supported by a simple high-level business plan identifying essential immediate cash-requirements, and a self-sustaining future operating model.

For more information, please send an email with a request to innovation4all.award@engineerscompany.org.uk