Earlier this month the Charity Commission for England and Wales launched it’s “Statement of Strategic Intent“. One of the five strategic objectives for 2018 to 2023 is “Informing public choice” about charities – and they identify data as one of the ways to use this. As they say: Today, we collect and display basic data […]

This post is based on the announcement by The Engine Room As you may have read, over the six months we’ve been working with Ariadne and The Engine Room to research how funders think about sharing data, to support them in doing so responsibly. Supported by Digital Impact (part of the Digital Civil Society Lab […]

Guest blog post by Dr. Catherine Walker, Director of The Researchery  Foundation Giving Trends 2018 has just been published, showing the latest figures for grantmaking from the top 300 UK foundations. The news is pretty positive: A fourth year of positive growth in grantmaking, which has now hit £3.3 billion in the latest financial year under […]

Thank you to everyone who attended the awards event for our Data Visualisation Challenge Fund. We were delighted with the energy and warmth shared among the 100 of you who joined us in Shoreditch on 21 September 2018. We had invited designers and data journalists to use 360Giving data to develop and visualise responses to key […]

For the first time, those concerned about social issues are able to easily gain insights into who gives grants for different aspects of our lives and in our places. In response to a unique competition run by 360Giving and funded by the Big Lottery, designers, analysts and data journalists from around the world have been […]

Between April and July 2018 we ran a Visualisation Challenge where we asked people to submit their responses to two questions: Who has funded what themes throughout the years? User-led organisations: Who funds them, in what thematic area, how much funding do they receive and what type of organisation are they? The entries had to […]

7 September 2018 In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Bethan Rowsby is the grants administrator at Trafford Housing Trust providing administrative support to the rest of the Social Investment staff team as well as all to volunteers, including Social Investment Board, Virtual Committee and Community Mentors. I wanted […]

6 September 2018 Data held by the Charity Commission is valuable information for anyone who wants to understand the charity sector. The Commission makes lots of the information about charities in England and Wales available online via its public register, ranging from who the trustees are and the number of staff, to where and how […]

As one of the biggest grant funders in Birmingham, Birmingham City Council has a responsibility to make its funding information available. What easier and better way to do this than to use the 360Giving data standard, so the Council’s grants can be explored alongside those from other funders? Thanks to a bit of help and […]

23 August 2018 In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Nick Wilsdon is the Research and Evaluation Manager at Youth Music and chair of London Funders Research & Evaluation group. Youth Music is a national charity investing in music-making projects that help children and young people develop personally and […]

In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Gary Beharrell is an experienced grants manager covering the East Midlands area for the Lloyds Bank Foundation. He is on the board of trustees for the Association of Charitable Foundations and holds other volunteer and trustee roles in his local community. Here’s what Gary […]

In this blog series, participants in the 360Giving Data Journey share their learning and experience. Alison Beck is a grants administrator at London Catalyst, a trust tackling issues of poverty and ill-health within London. London Catalyst also administers the Samaritan Grants to assist people in emergency situations. The Samaritan grants were the focus of Alison’s data journey. Here’s […]

When we started the 360Giving data journey, we agreed on the usual things: objectives, outcomes and an outline of the programme. Data expeditions had already proven their worth, with growing demand for these one-day explorations of data. The extension of data expeditions into a data journey was an exciting leap into the unknown. Here’s what […]

This blog was written by Rachel Rank, 360Giving and Helen Goulden, CEO of Young Foundation. The blog is cross-posted from the Young Foundation’s website (original can be found here) Patchwork Philanthropy – What can funding and spending data tell us about communities and place? Funders are increasingly ‘turning to place’ as the answer to addressing inequality. This […]

This blog was written by Stefaan Verhulst of The GovLab. The blog is cross-posted from the GovLab’s website (original can be found here). We live in an increasingly quantified world, one where data is driving key decisions. Data is claimed to provide the new competitive advantage for business, while making policy more evidence based. Yet, paradoxically, even as […]

Through our Digging the Data Visualisation Challenge we aim to unlock the potential of 360Giving data to help answer key questions facing grantmakers. Data, and open data in particular, is supposed to represent the truth and objectivity, as well as introduce the facts in an unbiased way. But what does ‘truth’ really mean in the age […]

In April we ran a Data Dive with DataKind UK looking at funding to the criminal justice sector in the UK. This is our second blog about what we found and learned. You can read the first blog here. We asked DataKind to run a Data Dive for us as we wanted to link 360Giving […]

For Small Charity Week, we decided to explore our local boroughs, Lambeth (where our office is located) and Southwark and see which small charities are receiving grants from funders that share their data in the 360Giving standard format. How small is small? There is no agreed definition of a small charity. The Foundation for Social […]

On 31 May 2018, I facilitated a data journey with 360Giving, focusing on statutory funding. Thank you to all the participants and my co-facilitators: Tracey Gyateng of DataKind UK, Anna Petruccelli of Comic Relief and Mor Rubinstein and Natalia Domagala of 360Giving. As Fran Perrin, founder and director of 360Giving, said: “Questions can change the world”. […]

This blog post was written by Nick Perks, Trust Secretary at the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust In the spirit of an empowering approach, at Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) we like to award the full amount that an applicant requests. “Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar” has become something of a saying […]