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20 Postcode Trusts have joined our ranks, taking us to over 300 grantmakers sharing their data using the 360Giving Data Standard.

In this guest blog, Jo Haffenden and Ames Petzoldt from the Masonic Charitable Foundation discuss the key principles and drivers that led them to publish data on grants to individuals and families alongside grants to organisations data. At the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF), the Freemason’s Charity, we have been publishing Charity Grants as 360Giving data […]

17 central UK Government departments publishing their 2022-23 grants data brings the total value of grants shared to over £265bn and over 1 million grants in GrantNav.

Jessie Adams (Impact and Evaluation Manager) shares the motivations for Buttle UK supporting the project  and being one of the first funders to publish their data on grants to individuals.

David Kane is a data scientist and researcher and has over ten years experience working with charity data. He is also the Product Lead at 360Giving, a charity that helps funders publish open data about their grants, and empowers people to use this data to improve charitable giving. You can use 360Giving’s search engine for […]

An important part of funding is understanding the impact those grants are having. However this is difficult when there are inconsistencies with how data is collected, managed and analysed. Below, Dr Emma Horrigan – City Bridge Trust’s Data Analyst and recent 360Giving Data Champion – shares how she compares their past and present performance consistently, […]

[Figures in this blog were updated on 5th July 2021, following an update to the Government published data on 2nd July 2021] On 24th June 2021, the UK Government published data on £490m worth of grants that it made in response to the COVID-19 crisis, in the 360Giving Data Standard.  This means that the data […]

In this blog, Data Champions facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights on how to encourage leaders to work with data, and techniques for communication from the workshop. 

In this blog, Data Champions facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights from the group discussion about grantmakers privilege and how to overcome confirmation bias.

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares insights about responsible data use from the workshop on January 27, 2021.    Responsible data What is meant by responsible data? Data is power and with power […]

The Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares tips on building a ‘data culture’ to enable better use of data in funding organisations. The ‘Data Champions’ are a group of people from different UK funding […]

In our Data Champions programme, we bring funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In this blog, we share insights from the group about public datasets, including which are the most useful and how to get the most from them.  There are many datasets out there that […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the second of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with data […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In November 2020, we launched our second programme with 32 participants from a variety of grantmaking organisations. In this blog, the first of two, we hear from some of them about how they work with […]

In August 2020, 360Giving and Open Data Manchester co-hosted a Data Expedition for a group of budding data enthusiasts. Through five online workshops, the group worked with data from ‘start to finish’: identifying a question, finding and using data to answer it and finally telling a story with it. Here, Oliver Carrington from Imperial Health […]

We ran a Data Dive with DataKind UK looking at funding to the criminal justice sector in the UK, linking 360Giving data to other datasets to see what we could find.