A co-founder and director of Reason Digital, Ed is an experienced social entrepreneur, charity trustee and mentor. An advocate of both technical and business model innovation, Ed applies techniques learned from Goldman Sachs, EY and The London Stock Exchange to make businesses, charities and social enterprises more sustainable. He’s raised hundreds of thousands of pounds of funding for Reason Digital and its partners to build digital prototypes of products and services to help some of society’s most vulnerable people.
A former Digital Entrepreneur of the Year, Ed helped write the specification for the UK Government’s Entrepreneurship Apprenticeship standard to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs and inspire them to set up businesses with a social purpose.
Projects credited in
- Preventing relapse by supporting people in recovery from drug and alcohol addictionAlong with our partner The Well, we received a small research grant from Comic Relief to find a digital support solution for people in abstinence based recovery. The Challenge Drug and alcohol addiction affects over a million people in the UK – a demand that charities struggle to meet in a traditional offline capacity. Along with our partner The Well we worked to find a digital solution that could help support people in recovery, at scale. The Result Co-designing and workshopping with our par3
- A website for The Trussell Trust and (almost) every food bank in the UKTrussell Trust’s local foodbank teams now have the ability to effortlessly create and update multiple local websites. The challenge The Trussell Trust runs a network of over 440 local food banks. The amount of time it was taking to manage all of the websites was causing serious problems. They needed an effective charity website and a method for creating and managing local foodbank sites. The problem We created a website cloning system so that The Trussell Trust can quickly create and manage new3
- Draw My Life | Reason DigitalWHO ARE WE? Ever wondered how we started? Or why we do what we do? Here's our story! A big well done to the team for clubbing together and making this video. Those voices? They're ours! 21 of us were involved in making this video. Which we think is pretty cool. :) Reason Digital is an award-winning digital agency, made up of team of socially motivated designers, programmers, and project managers. The team works on digital projects that change the world, by achieving the aims and objectives o
Work history
Co-founder and directorReason Digital
Manchester, United KingdomFull Time
Skills
- Strategic Planning
- Consulting
- Business