Find out how your feedback has guided our work and help inform our plans. The survey for 2023-24 is now closed – but if you have any more ideas for how we can improve at any time, please do contact us. We’d love to hear from you. Your feedback matters! To inform our priorities and […]

How data standards can take a product-led, user-centred approach. When I became the first dedicated Product Manager at 360Giving in April 2021, I knew what to expect when it came to managing a suite of software tools like GrantNav and 360Insights. But I had no idea how I’d go about managing the 360Giving Data Standard, […]

A new hub for UK Grantmaking data and insights coming in 2024. We are pleased to announce the launch of UK Grantmaking, a collaborative project to develop a new platform that will bring together data on the landscape of grantmaking in the UK. The new platform will strengthen grantmaking understanding, collaboration, decision-making, strategy and practice […]

360Giving’s Trustee Board agreed a two-year extension to our 2022 strategy, committing to our current priorities until 2027. Here’s why. We first launched our 2022-25 strategy, ‘Unleashing the Impact of Grants Data’, in March 2022. It was developed in 2021 informed by stakeholder and user research and analysis of the 360Giving performance and impact to […]

Over the past 18 months, 360Giving has been working with the Association of Charitable Organisations and a steering group of funders to support publishing grants to individuals’ data using the 360Giving Data Standard, and sharing it in the 360Giving tools. Buttle UK is a leading funder of grants to individuals and families, dedicated to helping […]

As we reach another milestone, we’re taking a look at just a few of our achievements, in a pivotal year for us and our mission. This has been a transformative year for 360Giving. An ambitious new 2022-25 strategy was implemented: ‘Unleashing the Impact of Grants Data’, marking a step-change for the charity. We have built […]

Introduction 360Giving is pleased to share the Grantmaking 2021-22 Snapshot, which serves as an interactive and accessible resource for anyone interested in exploring grantmaking data through a wealth of data compiled from multiple sources. The 360Giving Strategy, Unleashing the Impact of Grants Data, includes a goal to inform decision-making and inspire practice. We seek to […]

We are delighted that our Chief Executive, Tania Cohen, has been awarded an MBE in today’s honours in recognition of her “services to charity and social justice”, including for her work leading 360Giving. Since joining 360Giving in 2020 in a challenging time during the pandemic, Tania has led the organisation through significant growth and development, […]

The 360Giving Data Standard has been updated to enable funders to identify their grants intended for regranting. Background Over the past year, 360Giving has been working on a project to enable grantmakers to identify grants that are intended for onward distribution, or ‘regranting’, in their 360Giving data. This was a need identified in response to […]

The 360Giving Data Standard has been updated to support sharing data about grants to individuals. Background Over the past year, 360Giving has been working on a project to enable grantmakers to share data about grants given to individuals as 360Giving data. In our previous blog, we discussed the work we’d done to set up a […]

This Trustees’ Week we recognise the range of experience on our Board, why it is so important to us that our Board reflects the communities we work with, and we welcome two new trustees to the 360Giving team. Celebrating experience on 360Giving’s Board and why it is important Trustees’ Week is an annual event which […]

A recording and summary of our celebration event.  On Thursday 29th September, 360Giving hosted an in-person event to mark our founder, Fran Perrin OBE, stepping down as Chair, to celebrate everything achieved so far and to share the plans in our ambitious 2022-25 strategy. At the event Fran, Tania Cohen (Chief Executive, 360Giving) and our […]

Our Cost of Living Grants Tracker is now live. Use the guidance below to tag your cost of living grants so that they appear in the Tracker. Explore the data in the Cost of Living Grants Tracker here.  In response to the cost of living crisis, some funders are making changes to their grant programmes […]

This National Inclusion Week we are proud to share our journey to achieving the Neurodiversity Inclusivity Confidence Award. In this blog, I’m sharing what we have considered and implemented in 360Giving’s inclusion journey, and what we have learnt along the way.  Where we started When I joined 360Giving as Chief Executive in March 2020, I […]

In this blog we share plans for the development of the 360Giving Data Standard to reflect a wider range of grants, and future updates to 360Giving tools. Update (13/9): 360Giving’s consultation on grants to individuals is now closed. Thanks to all who provided their feedback and insights. Background When 360Giving developed the Data Standard, it […]

Following on from the publication of brand new analysis for the Access to Justice Foundation, we’re sharing what we have learnt along the way. The 360Giving team were pleased to work with the Access to Justice Foundation on a  new report analysing funding for ‘Specialist Legal Advice Providers’, and the broader size and scope of […]

As we celebrate our seventh birthday, we’re looking back on 360Giving’s achievements over the past year. 🎉 New visualisations  To celebrate our seventh birthday, we’re taking this opportunity to help you to better understand data published using the 360Giving Data Standard. To get a fuller picture of grantmaking in the UK, we’ve created a series […]

360Giving is excited to welcome our new Chair of Trustees, Fozia Irfan OBE. 360Giving is delighted to announce that Fozia Irfan OBE, BBC Children in Need’s Director of Children and Young People, is to become our new Chair of Trustees from July 2022. Fozia has extensive experience in grantmaking and social action, and we’re excited […]

In this blog we share some of the issues that we have been exploring around geography and location data, and what we are planning to do next to move things forward. People want to know where funding is going in the UK, but there are currently some challenges in how location data is handled in […]

Update: Following the exploration described in this blog, we launched the ability to identify grants intended for regranting in the 360Giving Data Standard. Read our regranting launch blog to find out more. In this blog, we’re exploring the concept of regranting, explaining what we have seen in the data, and outlining what we’re doing next […]