Supporting civil society organisations to gain insights and develop impact from data

The UK Data Service‘s Louise Corti and Scott Summers update us on the recent event: Supporting civil society organisations to gain insights and develop impact from data. On 17 October the UK Data Service ran an event at The Studio in Manchester focused on opportunities and challenges for professionals working with administrative, monitoring or evaluation data in civil society organisations (CSO). Attendees from a wide range of charities and civil society organisations including Asthma UK, Scope, The Salvation Army, Crisis, Action on Hearing Loss and 42nd Street, and non-departmental public bodies, including Historic England, took the opportunity to meet to explore ways of managing and sharing data ethically and discussing how data can be used to demonstrate the impact of their activities.