Data volunteering and development

DataKind UK is extremely lucky to always have talented volunteers who want to spend their spare time and amazing skills making social causes more impactful. And we love your passion! But as a small charity, we don’t run any internship or employment programmes volunteering programmes a year, so unfortunately, volunteering spaces are limited.

Instead we’ve pulled together these similar organisations, communities, and opportunities that will help you to build connections, practise and develop skills, or volunteer your time and expertise.

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Further data analytics skills building

• The Complete SQL Bootcamp for Aspiring Data Scientists - Udemy

• Lazy Programmer - Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence courses

•  SuperDataScience - Learning Path

• Towards Data Science 

• Data Skills for Work - Skills Portal 

• DataKirk - Data upskilling courses

• Science to Data Science

Other DS communities

• Le Wagon 

• R-Ladies 

• PyData 

• Black In Data 

• Women in Data

• Data Science for Social Good

• Black Devs UK

• Tech for All London meet-ups

• Code space London 

• Top 13 Data Science and Machine Learning Slack Communities 

• 15 Data Science Slack Communities to Join

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Other volunteering opportunities

There are loads of other organisations looking for skilled volunteers. There might be smaller charities or groups in your local community that would benefit from your skills. Some of our volunteers have done work directly with community organisations, acting as an embedded volunteer to help build the skills and capacity of staff members and the whole organisation. It might be worth looking locally to get an idea of need in your area.

Here are some other ideas:

• OCVA 

• Scottish Tech Army 

• Why volunteer with the Cranfield Trust 

• Works4U 

• Volunteering for accountants with Charterpath 

• Join our Pro Bono Programme - LandAid 

• For solicitors and volunteers | LawWorks 

• Volunteer opportunities with CIPD Trust 

• Business in the Community 

• Our sister organisation, DataKind in the US, provides fully remote volunteering opportunities

• Place yourself as an expert on Digital Candle

• Register to be a volunteer with Pro Bono Economics

• Check out the research volunteering opportunities with The OR Society 

• Love statistics? Become part of Statisticians for Society

• Support charities with your business expertise by becoming a Pilotlighter

• Transform a cause you care about by becoming a Digital Trustee with Third Sector Lab

• Add your professional skills to the books of Reach Volunteering 

• Flex your data skills with some Kaggle challenges