Data visualisations for grantmakers

Are you looking to make your grants data more accessible, impactful, and insightful? This practical online workshop will equip you with the essential skills to design and create effective data visualisations that clearly communicate your funding impact, trends, and stories.

You’ll learn how to choose the right chart type for your data and audience, understand core design principles for clarity and accessibility, and develop narratives that bring your grantmaking work to life. Whether you’re reporting to trustees, engaging the public, or informing strategic decisions, effective visualisations are key to demonstrating your value.

We’ll use grantmaking data examples and guide you through the process, from initial concept to final graphic. This isn’t just theory – you’ll leave with actionable techniques you can implement immediately.

This session is interactive and combines theory with practical work. You will be guided through creating and adapting commonly used visualisations in Excel and then will use a pre-populated Excel workbook to create and adapt some data visualisations yourself.

This session will cover

• How to use visualisations to tell stories and bring grantmaking data to life.
• The do’s and don’ts of data visualisation, to help you select the right type and avoid common mistakes.
• The decisions needed to create accessible and impactful data visualisations.
• Practical skills in creating and formatting charts in Excel.

Who is this session for?

This workshop is designed for people who work with grants data, or need to communicate with grants data, and who want to learn more about how to use data visualisations to tell stories with their data. The session will focus on guidelines and principles around visualisations to make the most out of them. For the session, we will use Excel to create and adapt visualisations but the principles are the same regardless of the tools used. Participants will need to be comfortable using Excel spreadsheets to participate in the practical section of the workshop.

What will I need?

• A laptop or PC (this session is not suitable for tablet and phone users)
• Excel 2013 Windows or Excel 2016 Mac editions or newer

A limited number of bursaries are available for charities interested in attending this workshop. See 360Giving’s Events Terms & Conditions to find out more.