Applications are now open for the 2025 Care Innovation Challenge, a unique competition that looks to bring together innovative minds with great ideas and pair them with experts from the world of social care and support.

We’re thrilled to get the opportunity to come and talk to delegates at Care Show London about this exciting opportunity to really make an impact in the future of the social care sector.

The challenge brings together entrepreneurially minded individuals, sector leaders and experts by experience to design solutions to solve social care’s biggest challenges and maximise its most exciting opportunities. What unites them is their ambition to develop ideas that increase quality of life and improve quality of care while pushing the boundaries of innovation.

We’re looking for applications from people aged 18 or over who are already working within the care sector or moving into the sector, university students and graduates and people who simply want to make a difference.

Successful applicants will be invited to come along to the innovation weekend this summer and participate in two days of idea generation and prototype trialling with mentoring from our fantastic partners and mentors. At the end of the weekend each applicant will pitch their idea and the best five will be selected to go through to the final, voted for by delegates, at Care Show Birmingham in October 2025.

This is a unique opportunity to network with supportive experts, influencers and leaders in social care as well as successful entrepreneurs. But don’t just take our word for it, here’s what last year’s winner said about their experience of the Care Innovation Challenge:

“Each time we came back to the challenge we learned a lot, not just for those two days, but we made lots of connections which are helpful for us at every stage. What has pushed us every time we entered the challenge is the mentoring. The mentoring we got is unmatchable.” Keerthi Busanaboyina & Hemanth Kumar Talupula, Team Ellyfe, Challenge Winners 2024

Please visit https://careinnovationhub.org.uk/challenge/ to register now and we could be seeing you in the summer for a weekend of exciting innovation!