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Part 2 – GDPR: A view from a data organisation

Part 2 – GDPR: A view from a data organisation

This is the second of two pieces based on the GDPR; the first, should be read first, and can be found here. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has published a simple document twelve steps to take now. There is also the much more detailed Guide to the General...
Part 1: GDPR – A view from a data organisation

Part 1: GDPR – A view from a data organisation

Firstly – don’t panic. You’ve probably heard that the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) can impose huge fines for breaches of the GDPR, but the ICO has published a simple document twelve steps to take now. There is also the much more detailed Guide to the General...
Working with Hospice UK: The PopNAT Process

Working with Hospice UK: The PopNAT Process

Hospice UK, the national charity for hospice care, wished to develop a tool that could help better understand local needs and identify gaps in the provision of service in the delivery of end of life care. This tool would become a population needs assessment tool, or...
Charities: accessing Business As Usual (BAU) data

Charities: accessing Business As Usual (BAU) data

In my last post on data & charities, I focused on outcomes data for both internal users and organisational funders or high value givers. In this piece, I’m focusing on internal stuff. I’m focusing on the everyday, what we might call data for...
How to create a data revolution in charities

How to create a data revolution in charities

Good Data is a liberator for charities This is a short series of blogs on the Data Revolution in charities. Sadly, the phrase is close to being a cliche. We base these blogs on three things:  First, our experience of working with a small number of charities. Second,...