‘Below the Radar’: understanding some of the UK’s smallest charities Small, informal, and grassroots groups are the backbone of our communities, yet they often remain invisible in official statistics. Our research report, Below the Radar 2, uses open grants data to…

New Research 🚨
Below the Radar organisations - small, unregistered groups at the heart of our communities - are drivers of social cohesion and community wellbeing. Find out more about their funding in our latest analysis for @localtrust.org.uk
insights.threesixtygiving.org/below-the-ra...

Feedback survey 2025-26 - 360Giving Thank you for agreeing to share your views in our annual feedback survey 2025-26.  We would like to know what you think about 360Giving, how we’re doing, and what we could improve on.  We value your t...

Can you spare 10 mins to tell us how we did?
We want to know how we’ve done over the past year and what you need from us so we can develop our priorities and improve our work.
Please complete our feedback survey by 8th April!
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360Giving uniting with Funders Together - 360Giving 360Giving is becoming part of Funders Together in a major step towards a stronger, more open and collaborative UK funding sector. We are excited to announce that 360Giving is uniting with Funders Toge...

📣 360Giving and Funders Together are joining forces to strengthen UK funding infrastructure

This brings together @londonfunders.bsky.social, Collaboration Circle, Place-Based Giving Hub – and now 360Giving – into a national cross-sector funding infrastructure body

www.360giving.org/2026/01/13/3...

Before you start - 360Giving This is a guide for UK funding organisations that want to publish data about their grants as 360Giving data, so that it can be analysed together and appear in GrantNav for everyone to view and to use....

📢Do you already publish your grants data, or want to know where to start? Our new, improved guidance & resources can help!

See every stage of publishing in one place, with information, examples and practical tools designed to support you.🤝
Get started now: www.360giving.org/publish/guid...

Celebrating People’s Postcode Lottery’s impact on grantmaking People’s Postcode Lottery has raised over £1.5 billion for causes and communities…

📢 In the 1st of 3 new blogs on UKGrantmaking, read about the evolution, growth & impact of People's Postcode Lottery on grantmaking. Raising over £1.5bn for communities & good causes, awarding a transformative amount of support through its 20 Postcode Trusts
www.ukgrantmaking.org/blog/celebra...

Introduction to publishing - 360Giving Get a complete overview of what publishing your grants data involves.

🤔Want to share your data using the 360Giving Data Standard but don't know where to start?

Our team will guide you through the key stages and answer your biggest questions at our next Introduction to Publishing workshop!

Online, 10 September - book below🎟️

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The Hidden Costs of AI for Charities: An Unseen Battle The 360Giving team have been navigating a challenging landscape lately, and it's something I believe all charity leaders need to be aware of. While the rise of AI is undeniable and often discussed, th...

I've written an article about the hidden cost of AI for charities and the unseen battle against bots and scrapers impacting operations and finances - including some of the impact on @360giving.org
I welcome your thoughts - I am not hearing others talking about this
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👋Want to know who publishes their grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard and what they're saying here on Bluesky? Take a look at our list of our partners and publishers!

Just pin the list below and get a feed of all the latest from the 360Giving community📌

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We've sent out our August newsletter!🗞️

Featuring:
🎂 Celebrating 10 years of open grants data
📑 Our 24-25 Annual Report
📊 The updated Grants to Individuals Dashboard
🖐 Upcoming workshops and events

Read the latest issue and subscribe: us10.campaign-archive.com?u=216b8b9262...

#OpenGrants #OpenData

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📊Check out 360Insights - our searchable hub where you can find all our visualisations, dashboards, analysis and reports to help you understand and use grants data.

See our data insights 🔽
insights.threesixtygiving.org/

About us - 360Giving We help people to publish and use open, standardised grants data to improve charitable giving.

📰Did you know we have a newsletter?

Get a curated digest of sector news, the latest from 360Giving, upcoming events, tips and tools to your inbox each month.📧

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Supports – 360Giving

🎓To find out more, sign up for our next Intro to Publishing workshop and let our team guide you through the key stages of sharing your grant data.

Online, 10th September - book below🎟️
www.360giving.org/support/?eve...

🤔Want to know how to share your grants using the 360Giving Data Standard?

Take a look at our Complete Guide to Publishing, which covers the three key stages of the publishing process:
1️⃣Planning
2️⃣Preparing
3️⃣Publishing

Read the guide 👇
standard.threesixtygiving.org/en/latest/gu...

📈Over 325 organisations now share their grants data using the 360Giving Data Standard!

Here’s how publishing your grants data can benefit your organisation, the wider sector and the people, organisations & causes you support: 360giving.org/why-publish/

#OpenData #OpenGrants #Grantmaking

1-1 support with using data - 360Giving Book a 30-minute call to discuss any questions you have about exploring or using grants data, including specific challenges you’re facing.

Need support using 360Giving data to inform your work?

Book a free 1-1 Data support session and one of the 360Giving team will help answer your questions.⬇️

www.360giving.org/service/1-1-...

#Data #OpenData #OpenGrants

360Giving 10th Anniversary Board - 360Giving This board celebrates 360Giving’s work over our first decade, with a few of the messages from those who have used, been a part of or supported our work over the last 10 years. If you’ve also been a pa...

Last week we celebrated 360Giving's 10th Anniversary!🎉

This is thanks to the 320+ funders sharing data, 120,000+ users exploring it, and all our supporters. See what 360Giving means to our community and join in by sharing your own message on our Anniversary Board⬇️

www.360giving.org/2025/07/01/a...

About us - 360Giving We help people to publish and use open, standardised grants data to improve charitable giving.

📊At 360Giving, our mission is to help UK funders publish open, standardised grants data, and support people to use it to improve charitable giving.

How do we do that? Watch our short video to find out 🎞️

www.360giving.org/about/

#OpenData #OpenGrants #Funders

Headshots of 10 people who provided their reflections on 10 years of open grants data

🤝360Giving is a collaborative project, shaped by those who publish and use grants data. If you’ve been a part of this story so far, then we would love to hear from you too!

Join the celebrations by leaving a message sharing why you’ve supported our vision: www.360giving.org/2025/07/01/a...

10 years of open grants data - 360Giving To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we invited some of those who’ve been part of our evolution to reflect on key moments in 360Giving’s story.

🎈 360Giving is 10 years old today!
To celebrate, we invited 10 people who have been a key part of our story over the first 10 years to reflect on moments that shaped our evolution ⬇️
www.360giving.org/2025/07/01/1...

Sign up to our monthly newsletter!🗞️

You’ll get a curated digest of sector news, the latest from 360Giving, upcoming events, tips and tools direct to your inbox each month.📫

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UKGrantmaking UKGrantmaking is the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK, providing a comprehensive overview in one interactive platform.

Did you know in 2023-24...
🔹Grantmaking by Community Foundations increased by 11% overall
🔹Most Community Foundations made grants worth between £1m and £10m overall
🔹Foundation Scotland was their largest single grantmaker, with grants of £22.4m
Explore all the data & insights at UKGrantmaking.org

🤔What do you know about Community Foundations, who made grants worth almost £200m in 2023-24?

Made in partnership with @ukcf.bsky.social, the Community Foundations section of UKGrantmaking 2025 can tell you about their location, scale and types of support⬇️
www.ukgrantmaking.org/trusts-and-f...

UKGrantmaking UKGrantmaking is the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK, providing a comprehensive overview in one interactive platform.

ICYMI: UKGrantmaking 2025 - the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK launched last week!

Head to the website where you can explore the data, find commentary and analysis from @360Giving.org and our partners, and much more..

📊 www.ukgrantmaking.org

Grants to individuals Explore the roughly 4,000 grantmakers in the UK that make grants to individuals and families, most of which are small and distribute under £50,000 a year.

£850m worth of grants were made to individuals & families during 2023-24 – but who made them, why, & for what purpose?

Explore on UKGrantmaking 2025, in our ‘Grants to Individuals’ section produced in partnership with Association of Charitable Organisations ⬇️
www.ukgrantmaking.org/grants-to-in...

Trusts and Foundations This section explores Trusts and Foundations, whose primary purpose is charitable grantmaking and range from very small trusts to some of the UK’s largest grantmakers.

Find out about Trusts and Foundation grantmaking in UKGrantmaking’s latest edition
🔹12% increase in Trust and Foundation grantmaking compared to previous year
🔹Over £8.2bn in grantmaking in 2023-24
Learn more, including @acf.org.uk reflections and share⬇️
www.ukgrantmaking.org/trusts-and-f...

Focus: London Explore London’s dynamic funding ecosystem, with hundreds of grantmakers and thousands of recipients from large charities to local grassroots groups.

Learn more about these findings and see more data & insights in UKGrantmaking's Focus: London section⬇️

www.ukgrantmaking.org/2025/focus-l...

🔸London Funders members increased their grantmaking by 14% in 2023-24
🔸Only 28% of the value of grants to London-based charities went to those who operate in London exclusively
🔸London-only recipients were more likely to work on poverty, community development, disability, sports, arts and culture

UKGrantmaking UKGrantmaking is the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK, providing a comprehensive overview in one interactive platform.

📊Yesterday we launched the second edition of UKGrantmaking.org, packed with new data & insights on another year of grantmaking.

Today we're highlighting the Focus: London section in partnership with @londonfunders.bsky.social - here's just a few of the key findings🧵

Latest edition of this annual report on UK grant-making. Loads of data to play with and some helpful analyses by contributors from different perspectives. Draws on data published on 360 Giving's platform AND additional research to create the most comprehensive & up to date picture we have.

UKGrantmaking UKGrantmaking is the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK, providing a comprehensive overview in one interactive platform.

UKGrantmaking 2025 is here! 🎉

The definitive publication on grant funding in the UK, we've worked with @360giving.org and partners to produce this comprehensive overview of grant making in 2023-24 at UKGrantmaking.org.

Read our perspective on 2023-24: www.ukgrantmaking.org/2025/trusts-...