Stories & news
Learn about the organisations we’ve worked with and their projects, meet our fantastic volunteer community, or catch up on our latest news!
Unpacking surveys with Tutors United
“I would 100% recommend DataKind to other organisations as they are equipped with the volunteers, skills, and knowledge to help you with your data challenges.”
Salma Begum | Tutors United
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
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
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
Detecting corruption with Global Witness
While there are 3.5 million companies in the UK, only 1.3 million filled in their beneficial ownership information.