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    • Bristol Braille’s awards, commissions and projects

    We are honoured to have been given the Dr Jacob Bolotin Award by the National Federation of the Blind and the Touch of Genius Prize by the National Braille Press.

    Our current projects and commissions include:

    ‘The future of Canute: Making electronic Braille more sustainable’

    2025–. Partners: Material Focus.

    The Canute Tactile Commons: A tactile library blind developers

    2025–. …. Partners: Vietsch Foundation, National Centre for Accesible Transport, Clovernook Center.

    Canute Console: R&D and on-demand in-house production

    2023–. Partners: Ufi, InnovateUK, ChildVision, Fenix Editorial, AT Guys, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, American Thermoform, and Early Bird customers including Darren Paskell, Dean Wilcox, Erich Schmid, Falk Rismansanj, Ellie Clark, Iki Nahaboo, Florian Beijers and Norman Waddington.

    Canute 360: On-demand in-house production

    2024–. Partners: Ufi, West of England Combined Authority.

    Bristol Braille: Award winning design and social impact

    Winners of the Jr Jacob Bolotin Award

    Winners of the Touch of Genius Prize

    Awardees of the NESTA Inventor Prize

    Winners of the Deutscher Ebook Award

    Winners of the Tech4Good Awards

    Previous commissions and projects

    FIRST LEGO League

    2023–25. Partners: FIRST Inspires, The Institute of Engineering and Technology

    Canute 360: Batch 4

    2022–23. Partners: Philtronics, InnovateUK.

    Canutes for publishing and Computer Science

    2021–2023. Partners: InnovateUK and Ufi (Computer Science), UWE (publishing); Braillists Foundation.

    Canute 360: Batch 3

    2021. Partners: Philtronics; AT Guys, Techno-Vision, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, Quantum, American Thermoform; National Federation of the Blind, American Action Fund, UnLtd Inclusive Recovery Fund, Resonance.

    Braille equipment and lessons with the Braillists (ongoing)

    2020–. Run by: The Braillists Foundation. Partners: BBT, the Churchill Fellowship (nee Winston Churchill Memorial Trust), Aviva, Worth Trust.

    Canute 360: Batch 2

    2019–20. Partners: Philtronics; AT Guys, Techno-Vision, Canadian Assistive Technology, Dancing Dots, American Thermoform, National Braille Press, APH, ChildVision; Thomas Pocklington Trust, Veronica Awdry Charitable Trust, Helianthus CT, Ulverscroft, Woodroffe Benton, William Cadbury.

    Canute 360: Trials

    2019. Partners: Philtronics; CNIB, APH, NFB, AAF; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.

    ‘Around India with a Canute’ by Ed Rogers

    2017. Partners: Bristol Braille, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

    Canute prototyping and trials: Mk8–13

    2016–19. Clovernook, APH; Esmee Fairbairn, Resonance; REACH, John James Bristol Trust, NESTA, Business West, Comic Relief, PWC Foundation, Arup, Santander, BWB Charitable Inc, SW Manufacturing Advisory Service, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Merchant Venturers, Company of Information Technologists; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.

    Canute prototyping and trials: Mk5–7

    2014–15. Partners: Information Technologists, Nominet Trust, Innovation4Growth, School for Social Entrepreneurs, Product Development Centre; Braillists Foundation, Bristol Hackspace.

    Midas

    2014. Partners: Braillists Foundation.

    The Braillists Foundation (ongoing)

    2014–. Partners: Braillists Foundation.

    Canute prototypes: Mk1–4

    2012–14. Partners: School for Social Entrepreneurs, UnLtd, iNet Microelectronics, PM Studio; Bristol Hackspace.

    Quixote

    2010–12. Partners: PM Studio, Transforming Braille Group.

    Open Braille display design collaborations (ongoing)

    2008–. Partners: Vidya Vrikshah, numerous.

    Other awards

    Most Innovative Braille Solutions Provider 2024

    2024. Awarded to Vision Through Sound by SME News, Midlands Enterprise Awards.

    Winner - Sage Small Business XI competition

    2023. Sage

    The Idea Fund

    2023. The Prospectory

    Most Innovative New Learning Technologies Product - Bronze

    2023. Learning Technologies Awards

    The Good Award

    2023. The SPARKies

    CreaTech 100: 100 Ones to Watch

    2021. Awarded by: Creative Industries Council.

    Dr Jacob Bolotin Award

    2019. Awarded by: National Federation of the Blind.

    Touch of Genius Prize

    2018. Awarded by: National Braille Press.

    Inventor Prize Recognition Award

    2018. Awarded by: NESTA, BEIS HMG.

    Deutscher Ebook Award

    2017. Awarded by: Deutscher Ebook Award, Frankfurt Bookfair.

    Tech4Good Accessibility Award

    2017. Awarded by: AbilityNet.

    Social Entrepreneurs Innovation Award

    2016. Awarded by: PWC.

    Stephen Lloyd Award

    2016. Awarded by: Bates Wells Foundation.