AN app creator from Marshfield is in the running to win £10,000 to help him improve his digital charity alarm clock.

Ronan Finnegan has been shortlisted as one of TalkTalk’s digital heroes and for his Wake or Donate app, an alarm clock application that donates the user’s money to charity each time they press the snooze button.

Ronan has been nominated in the fundraising digital hero category for the phone app, which users can set to chose how much they donate and to which charity if they do not turn their alarm clock the first time it goes off.

“With WakeOrDonate I have tried to create a charitable app that incorporates donating into our daily lives,” he said.

“If users decide to snooze their alarm, they will automatically make a donation to their choice of charity.

“If I am to win the prize money from the TalkTalk awards I hope to get my next app GymOrDonate developed and help potentially millions of fitness fanatics give to charity.”

Picked from hundreds of entries all across the UK, Ronan now has the chance to be named fundraising digital hero at the House of Commons before an esteemed judging panel. As a category winner he would claim a £5,000 grant and be in with a chance to scoop the title of TalkTalk Digital Hero 2014 and £10,000 of funding.

Dido Harding, chief executive of TalkTalk said: “Our TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards are a great way of rewarding small and local digital projects that are using technology to benefit their community.

“The fact that we are now in our seventh year is testament to the number of brilliant projects that are really making a difference and in need of recognition.

“As one of the UK’s biggest broadband providers we have long held the belief that the internet is a force for good and these awards are a key part of our commitment to help make British homes and communities better off.”

People can vote for Ronan by visiting talktalkdigitalheroes.co.uk before September 25.