Slivers-of-Time helps people work on their own terms

After registering you can choose the hours you are available to work and your hourly rate. Employers then log on and select staff according to their needs. So far users have included supermarkets, non-food retailers, leisure companies, caterers and the NHS. So far, just over 650 people have worked the Slivers-of-Time way, and many have found a job as a direct result.

Wingham Rowan, Slivers-of-Time Project Director, is the former producer and presenter of the UK's longest running television series about the Internet: "cyber.cafe" which ran on ITV from 1995 to 2000. The former presenter of children's TV programme "Rowan's Report", he is the author of two books about the social potential of online markets.

Slivers-of-Time won the the Enterprise Award ("for an innovative new technology solution developed by a business") in the 2008 UK Catalyst Awards. Find out about the 2009 UK Catalyst Awards.