Who we work with

GG Care, a company using technology to support people living with dementia with everyday activities using interactive voice reminders.

Venture philanthropy fund The Fore teamed up with Pro Bono Economics on a project to help them measure the collective and individual impact of the non-profits they fund. Working on a pro bono basis, Opencast helped to develop a bespoke data collection survey. Our collaboration successfully delivered a fully functional, cost-effective and GDPR-compliant survey platform in just six weeks.

The Office for Veterans Affairs (OVA) partnered with Opencast in 2024 to make it easier for veterans and their families to find the right support online. Veterans often faced an overwhelming mix of services from government, armed forces networks, charities and other providers. The project streamlined information into a single, accessible place and explored ways for OVA to connect veterans directly with services. The result was a new Finder tool and support guidance, launched on GOV.UK in September 2024, giving veterans a faster, clearer route to the help they need.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) urgently needed to provide new digital services to support people and businesses as the Covid pandemic took hold in 2020. Opencast played a significant role in helping it to deliver. 

NHS England engaged Opencast to review the user experience and functionality of the NHS app – with the ultimate objective of driving innovation and wider adoption of the channel. 

The Turing Trust was set up by Alan Turing’s family to honour his legacy. He’s generally regarded as the father of modern computing – but he was also committed to helping others, believing in the power of education in helping people fulfil their potential. The trust’s aim is to ensure that one day every child will be able to enjoy the transformative power of technology that Alan envisaged. 

The GMDN Agency is a registered UK charity responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the Global Medical Device Nomenclature (GMDN) database. The agency provides health authorities and regulators, healthcare providers, manufacturers and others with a system that allows an exchange of medical device information and supports patient safety.

Reboot Education is the flagship initiative of UK non-profit Reboot the Future. It supports 22,000 teachers with free resources aligned to the national curriculum, designed to foster the values and aims of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

GPs and other NHS healthcare clinicians working in the NHS face huge time pressures to do their jobs effectively. A factor that makes this pressure worse is the time it takes the clinicians to write up notes from patient consultations and devise treatment plans – with documentation taking up to a third of their precious time.  

England’s North East region is home to a vibrant and growing tech business community – with innovative start-ups, scale-ups and large anchor firms like Sage and Accenture, as well as digital centres for large government departments like HMRC and DWP. It has world-class universities and outstanding schools.

Opencast worked with South Tyneside Council to conduct a maturity assessment. Opencast employed its deep knowledge of industry best practices, tailoring this expertise to fit the council's unique context.

Opencast people are committed to sharing their technical expertise – especially where there is a positive impact on society. Technology has the potential to be a real force for good.

Opencast started work with electric vehicle (EV) charging business Elmtronics/Mer in 2021 as part of our increasing portfolio of projects seeking positive social impact. 

Working in the uncertain environment of Brexit and the pandemic lockdown, Opencast worked with Defra's Marine Maritime Organisation to help build a new online certification system for the efficient, compliant export of fisheries products to the EU. 

Opencast supported ORE Catapult, the Crown Estate and offshore wind farm owner/operators on SPARTA, a collaborative project to improve wind turbine operational performance by increasing safety, reliability and availability.

A Tier 1 banking client wanted to build a new data analytics calculation engine, to help it answer strategic business questions more easily. Opencast supported the bank with the work.

Opencast worked with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to help it deliver a platform for the new plastic packaging tax (PPT) online registration, return and payment service.

eConsult is a digital health company created by four GP partners to give NHS patients remote access to GPs through online consultations. The business has grown at pace and is now live in over 2,500 NHS GP practices and 10 emergency departments across the UK.

DWP Digital, part of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), wanted to see more consistency and standards in the way its systems were built, to help improve efficiency and reduce duplication. Opencast has worked with DWP Digital on digital projects in this space from 2020.

DWP Digital offers an online service to give employers the tools they need to empower and encourage disabled employees and those with health conditions. Opencast supported the project over a three-year period with development and user-centred design.

The ALLIANCE is the national third sector intermediary for health and social care in Scotland. It has a vision to make Scotland a place where everyone has a strong voice and enjoys their right to live well with dignity and respect. 

The Alnwick Garden is a modern ‘garden for everyone’ created in 2001 by the Duchess of Northumberland. Owned and run by a registered charity, The Alnwick Garden Trust, its mission is to keep “the community at its heart”.

RedNevada is an AI technology start-up that is deploying the power of large-language models (LLMs) to enhance and automate recruitment and resourcing processes.