// 01 — what we do
Three things, done properly.
We are a small group of volunteers forming as a community interest company in Birmingham. Everything we do is in the open.
// 02 — software
Accessible software, built with the community.
Community organisations in Birmingham — local charities, mutual aid groups, grassroots clubs — routinely make do with tools that were never designed for them: spreadsheets that don't talk to anything, booking forms that break on a phone, websites that a screen reader can't parse.
We work directly with those organisations to understand what they actually need, and then we build it. Properly. With accessibility baked in from the first commit.
Our first project is a community events platform that lets organisers post events with honest, structured accessibility information, and lets attendees actually find what is near them and accessible to them.
// 03 — students
A real route into the industry for new developers.
Every year, computer science and software engineering graduates leave Birmingham's universities with strong skills and almost no way to demonstrate them to employers. Portfolios of university exercises don't tell you much. A history of commits on a live open-source project does.
We work with Birmingham City University, Aston University, and the University of Birmingham to offer final-year project briefs on our platform. Students get real work experience, mentorship from working developers, and public credit for what they build.
We're not a bootcamp. We don't charge students. We just try to make the gap between education and employment a bit smaller.
// 04 — literacy
Tech literacy, plainly explained.
A lot of people feel left behind by everyday technology — not because they're not capable, but because most tech support assumes a baseline of knowledge that was never taught to them. We run short, plain-English sessions for people who just want to feel less lost.
We're currently working with a deaf community group in Birmingham and designing sessions that work for people who communicate in British Sign Language.
We're not trying to turn everyone into a developer. We just want people to feel a bit more in control of the devices that are increasingly central to daily life.