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 […]

Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Jo Kerr, Director of Innovation and Impact at Turn2us. In this post, we speak to Jo about the changes in digital, technology and data in charities, and what excites her about joining 360Giving. You can […]

Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Jon Cracknell, Trust Secretary of the Ecology Trust. In this post, we speak to Jon about his experience and the changes he’s seen in environmental philanthropy, and what excites him about joining 360Giving. You can get […]

Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director at The Social Investment Consultancy. In this post, we speak to Bonnie about women’s empowerment, the value of young trustees and what excites her about joining 360Giving. You can get to […]

Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Dr Danil Mikhailov, Founder and Head of Wellcome Data Labs at the Wellcome Trust. In this post, we speak to Danil about creating Wellcome Data Labs, data maturity and what excites him about joining 360Giving. […]

Over the coming months, we are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board. One of them is Thrisha Haldar, Lead Executive at The Alan and Babette Sainsbury Fund. In this post, we speak to Thrisha about her background, her thoughts on grantmaking strategy and what excites her about joining 360Giving. You can […]

We are delighted to be welcoming six new trustees onto our board over the coming months. This Trustees’ Week 2020, we hear from our new trustees on why they are excited to be joining 360Giving. We will be launching separate interviews with each new trustee throughout the week to get to know them better, so […]

On Thursday 29 October 2020, 16 central UK Government departments published open data about the grants they have made using the 360Giving Data Standard. In doing so, the government has joined the UK’s leading trusts and foundations who already publish their grants data openly in the Standard, to help us all have a fuller picture […]

Find that Charity, a tool created by our team member David Kane to help look up non-profit organisations, has been updated and refreshed. It now brings together data from 16 different sources and is the most comprehensive database of non-profit organisations in the UK. The updated site, https://findthatcharity.uk, draws on open data published by official […]

We are delighted that our Founder and Chair Fran Perrin has been awarded an OBE in today’s honours in recognition of her charitable services, including for setting up and driving 360Giving, particularly during COVID-19. In its five years, 360Giving has changed the status quo for funding in the UK. With support from 360Giving, the UK’s […]

By Tania Cohen, Chief Executive of 360Giving, and Bonnie Chiu, Managing Director of The Social Investment Consultancy At 360Giving, we are excited to unveil a new project we’re working on with The Social Investment Consultancy, which specialises in impact measurement for charities and foundations. They previously co-founded the Diversity Forum for Inclusive Social Investment. We […]

Today, Danny Kruger MP published ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, his report on civil society and recovery after the coronavirus pandemic and beyond. Danny Kruger MP. Photo: David Woolfall. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 The report was published in response to the Prime Minister’s call for proposals to ‘sustain the community spirit’ of the nation that […]

With funders sitting on a goldmine of data, more are asking how they can best use data and what skills they might need to do that. But do you need a data scientist, an analyst or an engineer? In this guest post, Michael Jarvis, Executive Director at Transparency & Accountability Initiative, shares guidance for funding […]

The end of June was a time of pride. 🏳️‍🌈 To help mark it, I analysed 360Giving data to understand grants made to LGBTQI+ causes.  It was also a good excuse to use some of the new principles I learned from the book Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, and see if […]

The words ‘data’ and ‘strategy’ can seem intimidating when used on their own. Thinking about the two together can give many people, myself included, a headache. When we started to talk about the idea of ‘data leadership’ for our Data Champions programme, run with Dirk Slater from FabRiders, we thought we needed to tackle the topic […]

In a new report, published today, we’ve set out a process for discovering and analysing ‘below the radar’ organisations working in communities across the UK.  The report uses 360Giving data – published openly by UK funders in the 360Giving Data Standard – to identify a set of organisations that receive grants from UK foundations but […]

Join Open Data Manchester and 360Giving this August for a free, two-week Virtual Data Expedition to improve your data skills. Would you like to feel more confident using data? Do you want to use data to better inform what you do? Whatever your data skills, wherever you are, you’re invited to join a Virtual Data […]