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!
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.”
Project volunteer Orfeas Kypris
“I thought there must be a way to modernise nonprofits and help them make use of their data to improve outputs in a sustainable way.”
Introducing our new CEO, Kye Lockwood
DataKind UK is really excited to introduce our new CEO, Kye Lockwood. Kye has been working in the charity sector for two decades, most recently as the CEO of Hackney Foodbank.
Celebrating Giselle
We reflect on the incredible achievements of our outgoing CEO, Giselle Cory, as we look to the future.
Project volunteer Heiko Hotz
“DataKind is looking for people who are passionate about data science and willing to learn.”
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
Community member Lydia Monnington
“Working with totally new people and seeing how they approach new problems is fascinating.”
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
Project volunteer Billy Zhao
“I was able to understand data challenges in the charity sector more clearly and share some best practices.”
DataKind UK and DEI — practising what we preach
We know that embedding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into our processes will improve the service we provide to charities, as it gives us more diversity of experience and thought in our projects.
Examining mental health in BAME communities with Sobus
“This data analysis has started opening doors.”
Shad Haibatan | Head of Organisational Development, Sobus