Signmatters is an app that will safely connect the deaf and hearing impaired community to British Sign Language (BSL) interpreters. We aim to disrupt the current administration led services that are costly and dysfunctional. Through our game-changing innovation we aspire to be the leading app for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Our vision is to expand to other special needs sectors including assisting anyone with a disability or long-term health condition to connect to community support workers and the Access to Work scheme. Expansion will be to take either or all of these special needs to the global level. There is also the potential to roll out the service to cover the entire language services support system The simple aim has a huge social impact - we describe it as _"Uber for interpreters"._

"Every winter the damage caused by frozen and burst water pipes is expensive, destructive and ruins businesses and personal lives. Every day during the ‘Big Freeze’ of 2010, British insurers dealt with > 3,500 claims for burst pipe damage paying out ~ £250M. Over 60% of all industrial, commercial and residential pipework is plastic, either PVC or high density polyethylene. Rising prices of copper and steel, the ease of installation and the use of recycled plastic products has resulted in the global demand for plastic pipes steadily rising. The British plastics industry had a turnover of £19 billion (2011) of which ~£4 billion was attributed to the manufacture of pipes, rainwater, greywater or foulwater products. Our aim is to seek a novel and innovative way of manufacturing non-freezing plastic pipes by integrating non-freezing particles with granular plastic feed. "