13 March 2024
Have your say! How your feedback shapes our work
Find out how your feedback has guided our work and help inform our plans.
5 October 2023
Buttle UK and publishing data on grants to individuals and families
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.
7 December 2021
UK grantmaking during the pandemic - Explore our new research
Data shared by 174 grantmakers on their Covid relief and recovery funding – covering 66,000 grants worth almost £2.4 billion – has been analysed and summarised by David Kane (Analysis Lead, 360Giving) in newly-published interactive research. Key findings from the report show that funders acted quickly and responsively, and adapted approaches to reach communities disproportionately […]
5 March 2018
GrantNav gets a user upgrade
GrantNav is now 18 months old, so we felt it was time to look at how it’s used and how we could make it even better! We have listened to what you’ve told us about how you’re finding it to use. As a result, we’ve added some new features, made some tweaks, squashed some bugs […]
20 February 2018
The 360Giving forum - a place for discussion
It all began with the standard When we started 360Giving, we put a lot of effort into designing a data standard that will help answer some of the big questions about grantmaking. The 360Giving Standard is open and so it belongs to everyone; but in order for people to use it, we knew it had […]
2 October 2017
Press button data sharing a reality for Community Foundations
A new tool funded by 360Giving will make publishing data a doddle for community foundations that are using Salesforce to manage their grantmaking. The tool allows community foundations to automatically export data formatted to the 360Giving Standard cutting hours off the time it might otherwise take for them to prepare their data. The tool has […]
24 August 2017
Grantmaking data through 360Giving adds new insight to OCSI’s Local Insight tool
Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) have been working with the public sector for 14 years, supporting organisations to use better data for better decisions. At our core is providing rigorous, high quality data in accessible formats, so that decision makers and key stakeholders save time and money when planning local community services. This could […]
20 July 2017
Three ways we plan to make funding easier
David Kane and Suraj Vadgama, the team behind www.beehivegiving.org, share findings from their recent user research with charitable funders and plans to put them into action to make funding easier and less time-consuming. Beehive was set up by The Forward Foundation that understood the challenges of distributing grants, as well as the difficulties faced by […]
29 September 2016
New free online tool allows easy access to over 180,000 UK grants in one place
Finding detailed information about UK grantmaking – who is funding, what, where and how much – has become much easier today with the launch of a new online search tool, called GrantNav. Free to use, the platform lets users search, explore and download grants data from some of the UK’s largest charitable funders. By making […]