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Learn about the organisations we’ve worked with and their projects, meet our fantastic volunteer community, or catch up on our latest news!
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Project volunteer Abhigya Chetna
“The most important lesson that I have learnt is the power of diversity and collaboration.”
Long-term volunteer Antonio Campello
“It takes a lot of work to make a problem ‘data-scienceable’ and it takes even more work to make data usable.”
Getting women into work with Smart Works
“The project was an incredible, transformational experience for our charity. It gave us the opportunity to get the most out of our data, create clear next steps, and look at different areas to improve on.”
Emma King | Smart Works team member
Committee member Nestor Delgado
“It is not always the most sophisticated model that makes the biggest contribution to a project.”
Committee member Gail Dawes
"The power of data for me is what it tells us about our world and human behaviour!"
Bridging the gap between the use of AI in the private and third sector
The 2024 AI Summit was jam-packed with cutting-edge technology, inspiring ideas, and hope for the future. What does our panel of charity leaders think this means for third sector organisations?
Committee member Natan Mish
“Find out what you are passionate about and what drives you to ask questions.”
Updating our organisation’s values — why now?
As a charity and community, we want our mission, strategy, and values to be fully aligned and working for everyone involved with us. Our values underpin all areas of our work and inform all our decisions.
Long-term volunteer Claire Benard
“Meeting other people who work in data, and were always really supportive and nice, makes a difference.”
Committee member Lisa Carpenter
“Watching a charity team get excited about the data, what it meant, and fully embracing working with data, was fantastic!”
Creating shared data insights for the third sector
We have refreshed our approach, offering more guidance, the potential for more impactful insights for participant organisations, and more opportunities to share learning across the sector.
Welcome Elizabeth!
Elizabeth is our new Project and Events Manager, passionate about her background in public engagement.
Project volunteer Lakshmi Chockalingam
“I am most interested in and inspired by anything that helps us get a bit closer to equity and meaningful progress.”
Improving children’s recovery with Starlight
“It really helped us understand how we could make better decisions as an organisation.”
Dr Sandy Gulyurtlu | Head of Insights and Impact, Starlight
Welcome Caitlin!
Caitlin Loftus is DataKind UK’s new Data Science Project Manager. She supports our data science programmes, triaging, scoping, and overseeing our projects.
Project volunteer Patrick Savoie
“After my first DataDive project, I knew this was an organisation I wanted to be involved with long term - it was a great experience all around.”
Community member Sam Blake
“It’s always been important to me that my job has some kind of positive social impact.”
Increasing recycling with Material Focus
“Behaviour change is about motivation and ease. If we made it easier, what would have the biggest impact?”
Scott Butler | Executive Director, Material Focus
Long-term volunteer Sukhil Patel
“I get to meet so many interesting charities and understand a lot about the work they’re doing.”
Project volunteer Melissa Torgbi
“I saw data science as a way to solve problems using technology… that’s what it gave me.”