Empowering positive social change through technology solutions

We are a collective of technology and digital specialists on a mission to empower and elevate the capabilities of charities, campaigners, and changemakers, to bring about positive change.

Thanks to Poteris, we’ve been able to take our impact to the next level. Their support has ranged from strategic guidance to the co-design, build and successful launch of our award-winning platform for schools. They understand our charity’s purpose and vision, and continue to work closely with us to help narrow the disadvantage gap in education.

Tom Harbour

Founder, Learning with Parents

Our areas of work

Technology for charities, changemakers, and campaigners.

Inviting non-profits to access support under our Tech Canopy

Our broad range of experience can support your busy and dedicated team to understand your technology needs, strategic approaches to your challenges, deliver one off tech solutions, and work with you in the long term to support your digital and technology needs.

Projects and products developed to create change.

As part of our mission to empower and elevate the capabilities of charities, campaigners, and changemakers, we’re working on a growing set of AI powered tools to bring about positive change.

Expertise

Driving positive change through technology

Our holistic approach delivers services and technology driven solutions that meet people, where and when they need to access them. 

Charities

Building tech that benefits society is hugely important to us. We’ve been trustees, volunteers, and organisers ourselves, so we know what it’s like: from funding requirements to data security, we’ve been there. We can support help you explore your needs and recommend a number of digital tools, solutions, and services, that we have experience with and are offered to charities for free or at minimal cost.

Education

We’ve designed, built and supported tech solutions for primary and secondary school settings in the UK, working with teachers and parents to be as effective and impactful as possible. This has given us a good understanding of the needs of users in those settings as well as the challenges and sensitivities involved when working with schools.

Economic injustice

It’s too easy to build tech solutions that widen the disadvantage gap, making it easier for those who already have access to get further ahead. Our work has involved breaking down barriers that leave people behind.

Democracy

We’ve partnered with others to develop technology to increase access to democratic activities. We understand the power of access to information in democratic activity and bring our collective experiences of local and national progressive political campaigns to the solutions we build.

The people

Combining passion and technical expertise to deliver real impact.

Our diverse team bring a wide range of experience, skills, and expertise in developing high quality impactful technology for charities, campaigners, and changemakers. 

Peyman Owladi
Strategy | Development
Simon West
Projects | Low Code
Umair Iftikhar
Development
Bobi Robson
Projects | Strategy
Arda Awais
Design
Phil Bell
Projects | Data
Caitlin Parfitt-Ford
Development
Mohsin Ghani
Development
Ammar Ahmed
Design
James Dray
Projects
Yasir Ghouri
Development

How we work with you

What our clients say

We like to be open and honest about how we work from the start. We’re happy to work on one off projects, but find the best results come from long standing partner relationships. 

Our work

Examples of our work

From projects and products developed to bring about positive change, to the support we’ve delivered to other non-profits under our Tech Canopy. 

Delivering continuous tech support to TBIJ

Helping TBIJ become a more digitally self-sustaining business in a way that supports their mission to expose injustice and spark change through investigative journalism.

Chalk, making Learning Visual

Turning 50-minute design tasks into 4-minute workflows for teachers at 550+ schools

Supporting learning with parents to grow

Five years of partnership supporting Learning with Parents to scale their impact, from emergency platform stabilisation to sustained technology evolution.

Finding the right CRM for MeWe360

At the start of July 2025 we (Poteris) began working with MeWe360 to explore CRM options that could help them more manage their core programmes in a more seamless way. The team have been punching well

Rep Coach, building confidence for collective action

An AI training tool that helps trade union reps build confidence through practising organising conversations in a safe space.

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