TalkLife builds online peer support communities for people to safely share the ups and downs of life. Currently offering TalkLife free to use to anyone and TalkCampus built specifically for students. Available on iOS, Android and web. Combining the power of social connection with world first machine learning capability to support and improve upstream mental health across the globe. Free to use, #1 in app store for suicide and self harm. Combines trained volunteers, a professional 24/7 safety team, clinical real time escalation and state of the art bespoke safety systems to create measurable impact and a place where people want to share."Young people need somewhere to talk about youth mental health. TalkLife is that place." Stephen Fry"TalkLife is perhaps one of the most important mobile innovations for 2014" - Startup Daily"TalkLife is the social network app that is saving lives … it is fast becoming an industry innovator …" - vibewire.orgWe're passionate about creating safe places to and share life’s highs and lows, to connect with others, and to find that you are not alone.TalkLife.comIOS/Android/WebJennifer@talklife.co@j5nnRussell

IVR was set up in 1997 to undertake high quality research on volunteering. It started out as a department of Volunteering England in 1997, and in 2013 it became part of the research department of NCVO. During the last twenty years, IVR has played a leading role in applied volunteering research involving volunteer organisations, the public sector, private sector and the government.IVR’s mission is to support and undertake high quality volunteering research to bring about a world in which the power and energy of volunteering and the difference volunteering and volunteering research make to individuals and communities is well understood, so that individuals can be confident and feel safe about their decision to volunteer and communities grow stronger.

Over the past 20 years ERS has established itself as one of the UK’s leading independent research consultancies.The company has offices in Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol, and is one of the few companies of its type to have its quality assurance processes independently accredited to ISO 9001.Clients include government departments, non-departmental public bodies, local authorities, colleges/universities and a variety of private and charitable sector clients.