Our programmes
Work with us to support your mission and increase your impact!
We can help with a wide array of operational challenges, and the toughest questions your organisation faces.
We aren’t supporting your data - we’re supporting you. We work with you to transform your understanding, increase your capacity, and get the most out of your data.
“The findings will inform our day-to-day delivery as well as our impact strategy. A really worthwhile project and we are excited to work with DataKind again in the future!”
Louise Jones | Head of Impact, Brightside
Read About Brightside’s Project
Informing
If we can’t do it, we know someone who can! We’ve pulled together resources covering everything from CRMs and databases, to Theory of Change and data strategy.
Training
Webinars and workshops to inspire your data imagination, on topics such as how data science and AI might help your organisation, and ethical and responsible data use.
Advising
Is it for me?
We match you with expert data professionals from our community who support you directly. It is ideal if you want a short-term boost to your data capacity, light-touch guidance, or extra help with a specific task such as: creating sample visualisations; analysing a short survey; hiring for a data role; learning how to make a dashboard using PowerBI.
Fill in our form explaining what you’re looking for, and the DataKind UK team will assess your request. If it’s something we can’t do, we’ll provide other options, such as resources, or signpost you to other available support. If we can help, we’ll have a call with you to develop a project brief. We will agree on your goals, any data you’re using, and expected outcomes.
When you approve the brief, we’ll share it with our community in order to match you with expert volunteers who have the right skills for the job. Once matched, you’ll work directly with your volunteers to complete the brief.
Your support match will last one month, and you’ll have up to three sessions with your volunteer data experts. The project should take about 10 hours of volunteer time in total, including meetings and any work required in between. At least one member of your staff team must be available to manage the project, meet with your volunteers, and respond to any questions they have over this time.
Exploring
Is it for me?
Exploring helps you to tackle tough organisational challenges using data analysis, by teaming you up with data experts from our community. Your goal may be to:
Improve your services by understanding your beneficiaries better eg What do parents most frequently ask our online support?
Understand need, demand, or who might be missing eg Are there unemployed women in our catchment area that we don’t know about?
Evaluate the impact of a programme to understand what’s working, who’s benefiting, or who’s missing out eg How do students feel about their school’s DEI work?
Make the best use of the resources you have eg Which hospitals are we successfully working with?
In an Exploring project, you’ll collaborate with DataKind UK staff and volunteers for four to six months. The programme is designed to be flexible to your challenges while developing your confidence, knowledge, and skills with data use. At key points, we’ll evaluate your project and advise you on what to do next.
A member of your staff team should act as the main point of contact and ‘data champion’ throughout. To get the best results, you should involve not just the people who analyse your data, but staff who create it, such as case workers, and senior leadership who will ensure the work lives on. It will take about half a day each week across your team, including meetings with DataKind UK staff and volunteers, and data preparation.
Building
Tools, products, and solutions to support responsible data use across the third sector.
Mentoring
One-to-one, professional mentorship relationships to support you with technical skills or specific tools.
Other support
We are a small team, supported by volunteers, so we can’t do it all.
Choosing a CRM and/or CRM migrations: we can point you to resources, but we are not experts in any particular tool.
Creating a theory of change: we can give you advice on whether the data you’re capturing reflects the outcomes you seek, but we don’t currently have the capacity to help organisations develop a Theory of Change.
Data protection and GDPR: we are not legal experts and cannot provide legal advice on data protection questions.
To find out about these other aspects of data management and governance, take a look at our resources.
“Working with DataKind really helped us to understand our data and processes... It exceeded all our expectations.”
Nathan Palmer | Head of Programmes, St John Ambulance
Read About St John Ambulance’s Project