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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
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
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
Teaching the next generation with Stemettes
“The project was an amazing and enlightening experience for me. It has inspired me to improve our data quality and experiment to see what the data can produce.”
Tanikka Baylis | Impact Reporting Associate, Stemettes
Boosting inclusivity in schools with Inclusion Labs
“One of the best experiences I have had the privilege of having! Such a brilliant initiative!”
Temi Akindele Barker | CEO and founder, Inclusion Labs
Five things Brightside learned about data
"The team really understood our mission, our data and our challenges, and cared about the work we do. The findings will inform our day-to-day delivery as well as our impact strategy."
Louise Jones | Head of Impact, Brightside
Online support for families with Action for Children
“Working with DataKind completely opened our mind to the possibilities of data, and gave us access to so many brilliant data scientists and their different perspectives.”
Lynn Roberts
Director of Growth and Service Design, Action for Children
Examining mental health in BAME communities with Sobus
“This data analysis has started opening doors.”
Shad Haibatan | Head of Organisational Development, Sobus
Finding the most vulnerable with Citizens Advice Lewisham
“DataKind UK’s recommendations… will help us align our services to the constant changes within the economy and Lewisham’s landscape in the coming years.”
CAL staff member
Helping young people affected by homelessness with Depaul
"The project demonstrated the potential of the data we had collected when you apply the right approaches and ask the right questions."
Beth Woods | Evaluation Manager, Depaul UK
Engaging 15,000 volunteers with St John Ambulance
“Working with DataKind really helped us to understand our own data and our own processes better... It really did exceed all our expectations.”
Nathan Palmer | Head of Programmes, St John Ambulance
Tapping into web-chat with Turn2Us
"We were excited about using text analysis techniques to pull out recurring issues and topics, streamline interactions, and make finite resources stretch to even more people!"
Meg Leyland | Project volunteer
Getting people out of debt with Christians Against Poverty
“I’m really super excited about where we can go from here. If we do want to help more people, there’s absolutely no question that data can be a big part of that.”
Martin Cowles | Senior Project Manager, Christians Against Poverty
Identifying food bank use with the Welcome Centre
“It’s really easy to be scared of data, GDPR, and all these things. But if you can embrace the idea and move forwards with it, it can be a really positive thing for you as an organisation, and for the people that you’re working with.”
Ellie Coteau | Manager, The Welcome Centre
