Digital & Data

support for civil

society

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Supporting small groups with digital & data

• Top digital tools for capturing your impact

• Top digital tools for presenting your impact

• Excel for monitoring & evaluation

• So you need a database?

• Creating easy infographics for impact

• Do the numbers add up? Understanding your data better

• Putting your data on the map

• Borough Data Hack Days – Kingston & Croydon

Sessions for Volunteer Centres

• Volunteer Management Systems

• Recruiting & Retaining Volunteers using Social Media

• Writing for the Web

• Excel, Excel, Excel!!!

From paper to online data collection

“The google forms have been so useful! It is amazing to see the answers compiled into graphs and charts straight away.”

“I no longer need to persuade the Team Leaders of the need for digitising our data collection - it is being automatically driven by GDPR!”

Making the most of Excel..

Sorting & Filtering

Conditional formatting

CountIf

Pivot tables

“I believe very strongly that charities benefit from investing in upskilling their

workforce around IT and Excel is a fantastic tool:

• Easy for staff to learn how to use

• Cheap to build

• Fun to use!

• Great for reporting!

• Give us confidence we know our project

• Easy to analyse trends”

Interrogate, Shape, Fund, Grow, Report!

Infographics for impact

Mapping tools

• Doogal – top level post code kml files

• MapIt – ward & borough kml files

What next? Our ambitions to scale up..

• Cornerstone Development Grant, Nov 18 – Jan 19

Improving data-literacy and digital skills in London’s small local charities & community groups, enabling better evidencing of need & impact, and adoption of

digital tools & services to support this.

• An asset based approach - bringing together a cross sector partnership to best utilise London’s expertise, and continuing to work through local infrastructure.

What next? Our ambitions to scale up..

How can you get involved??

• Complete our ‘Call out’ survey (to be sent via London Plus)

• Identify pilot projects / testing scenarios

• Invite us to events / networks to widen input

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katewhite@superhighways.org.uk

Tel: 020 8255 8040