We’re excited to be celebrating our sixth birthday today, and to be launching a new and improved version of our flagship tool, GrantNav, our search engine for grants data. We reflect on how GrantNav has progressed over the past five years, and highlight how you can make the most of its new functionality.  GrantNav is […]

[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 […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Programme facilitator, Dirk Slater, share insights from the final workshop of the programme, sharing what a data strategy is and how to develop one using our Data Strategy Canvas template. You can read about how […]

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 on how to encourage leaders to work with data, and techniques for communication from the workshop on February 24, 2021.  The ultimate goal of the Data […]

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 from the group discussion on February 10, 2021 about grantmakers privilege and how to overcome confirmation bias. “Many of the processes in which we collect data […]

GrantNav is one of 360Giving’s flagship products – our search-engine for grants data.  It is a free-to-use platform that brings together open, comparable grants data that is published by UK funders in the 360Giving Data Standard.  If you are a regular GrantNav user then your browser may not show the updated site straight away, and […]

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 […]

Over the past year, we’ve been developing a shared taxonomy for equalities data to support funders to understand the equity of their grantmaking. Several funders have expressed an interest to record this data with their 360Giving grants data so we are now looking to add a DEI Data Extension to the 360Giving Data Standard. In […]

On Thursday 25 March 2021, 16 central UK Government departments published their 2019-20 grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard, and updated data about their 2017-18 grants.   The new data covers 52,682 general grants that were active in 2019-20 worth a total of £31.8bn awarded to 22,140 recipients. At the same time, data for […]

With the closure of Fundraising Central, NCVO’s online grants database, how can you identify potential funders for your work using open data? Here we set out some of the best free resources for fundraisers to search for funders

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. Having recently launched our third programme, facilitator Dirk Slater takes the opportunity to pause and reflect. In this blog, he highlights some of the common data challenges, and offers tips shared by the Data Champions […]

In our Data Champions programme, we bring a cohort of funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. In the first month, we focused on data workflows and collecting data. In this blog, programme facilitator Dirk Slater shares the learnings and highlights from the group sessions.     In […]

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 […]

Giving Tuesday is a day of global giving, where everyone, everywhere can do something to support the good causes that mean so much to them. To mark it, we’ve taken to our search engine for grants data, GrantNav, to explore the significance of Tuesday for grantmaking!  At 360Giving, we help funders in the UK publish […]

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 […]

Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Farah Ahmed, Head of Market Development, Digital Identity at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). In this post, we speak with Farah about her background in the civil service, how attitudes towards data […]