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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
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
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
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
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.