A recording and summary of our celebration event.  On Thursday 29th September, 360Giving hosted an in-person event to mark our founder, Fran Perrin OBE, stepping down as Chair, to celebrate everything achieved so far and to share the plans in our ambitious 2022-25 strategy. At the event Fran, Tania Cohen (Chief Executive, 360Giving) and our […]

Our Cost of Living Grants Tracker is now live. Use the guidance below to tag your cost of living grants so that they appear in the Tracker. Explore the data in the Cost of Living Grants Tracker here.  In response to the cost of living crisis, some funders are making changes to their grant programmes […]

This National Inclusion Week we are proud to share our journey to achieving the Neurodiversity Inclusivity Confidence Award. In this blog, I’m sharing what we have considered and implemented in 360Giving’s inclusion journey, and what we have learnt along the way.  Where we started When I joined 360Giving as Chief Executive in March 2020, I […]

In this blog we share plans for the development of the 360Giving Data Standard to reflect a wider range of grants, and future updates to 360Giving tools. Update (13/9): 360Giving’s consultation on grants to individuals is now closed. Thanks to all who provided their feedback and insights. Background When 360Giving developed the Data Standard, it […]

Following on from the publication of brand new analysis for the Access to Justice Foundation, we’re sharing what we have learnt along the way. The 360Giving team were pleased to work with the Access to Justice Foundation on a  new report analysing funding for ‘Specialist Legal Advice Providers’, and the broader size and scope of […]

As we celebrate our seventh birthday, we’re looking back on 360Giving’s achievements over the past year. 🎉 New visualisations  To celebrate our seventh birthday, we’re taking this opportunity to help you to better understand data published using the 360Giving Data Standard. To get a fuller picture of grantmaking in the UK, we’ve created a series […]

360Giving is excited to welcome our new Chair of Trustees, Fozia Irfan OBE. 360Giving is delighted to announce that Fozia Irfan OBE, BBC Children in Need’s Director of Children and Young People, is to become our new Chair of Trustees from July 2022. Fozia has extensive experience in grantmaking and social action, and we’re excited […]

In this blog we share some of the issues that we have been exploring around geography and location data, and what we are planning to do next to move things forward. People want to know where funding is going in the UK, but there are currently some challenges in how location data is handled in […]

Update: Following the exploration described in this blog, we launched the ability to identify grants intended for regranting in the 360Giving Data Standard. Read our regranting launch blog to find out more. In this blog, we’re exploring the concept of regranting, explaining what we have seen in the data, and outlining what we’re doing next […]

Fran Perrin has announced that she will be stepping down from the Chair role at 360Giving in summer 2022, but will continue to support the organisation as a champion, ambassador and Founder after.  Since Fran created 360Giving in 2015, a sector transformation has been achieved. By early 2022, over 220 funders have published over 600,000 […]

Covering planning, preparing and publishing, here’s an introduction to our guide on publishing your grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard. What is the Complete Guide to Publishing and what does it include? The 360Giving team recently launched a Complete Guide to Publishing to help funders through the process of sharing grants data using the […]

Data shared by 174 grantmakers on their Covid relief and recovery funding – covering 66,000 grants worth almost £2.4 billion – has been analysed and summarised by David Kane (Analysis Lead, 360Giving) in newly-published interactive research. Key findings from the report show that funders acted quickly and responsively, and adapted approaches to reach communities disproportionately […]

Our GrantNav upgrade helps you to understand further who, what and where is funding going to. What is the new update? As we announced in a previous blog on the most recent GrantNav upgrade, it is now possible to view the results of your GrantNav search in 360Insights, our free tool to help you to […]

David Kane is a data scientist and researcher and has over ten years experience working with charity data. He is also the Product Lead at 360Giving, a charity that helps funders publish open data about their grants, and empowers people to use this data to improve charitable giving. You can use 360Giving’s search engine for […]

We’ve reached a new milestone, with grants from over 200 funders now available to explore in GrantNav. We showcase the diversity of grantmakers publishing their grants data and celebrate this milestone. We’re delighted to announce that over 200 funders have published their grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard. This means that data on almost […]

An important part of funding is understanding the impact those grants are having. However this is difficult when there are inconsistencies with how data is collected, managed and analysed. Below, Dr Emma Horrigan – City Bridge Trust’s Data Analyst and recent 360Giving Data Champion – shares how she compares their past and present performance consistently, […]

Th visualisations in this blog are out of date. Please visit threesixtygiving.org/data for up to date visualisations and statistics.  Since 360Giving was formally constituted in July 2015, we’ve been working towards our vision of more informed and effective grantmaking through normalising open data sharing. As we reach a critical mass of funders publishing their grants […]

We’re excited to be celebrating our sixth birthday today, and to be launching a new and improved version of our flagship tool, GrantNav, our search engine for grants data. We reflect on how GrantNav has progressed over the past five years, and highlight how you can make the most of its new functionality.  GrantNav is […]

[Figures in this blog were updated on 5th July 2021, following an update to the Government published data on 2nd July 2021] On 24th June 2021, the UK Government published data on £490m worth of grants that it made in response to the COVID-19 crisis, in the 360Giving Data Standard.  This means that the data […]

Our Data Champions programme brings funders together to collaborate and learn how to grow a data culture in their organisations. Programme facilitator, Dirk Slater, share insights from the final workshop of the programme, sharing what a data strategy is and how to develop one using our Data Strategy Canvas template. You can read about how […]