Data for charities, NGOs & research

Make your impact clear to everyone.

I help charities, think tanks and research teams turn the data they already collect into dashboards, charts and stories that funders, boards and the public understand.

Start a conversation See what that looks like

A free 30-min call with me, not a sales team.

Example dashboard, with illustrative data: 2,480 families supported in 2025, up 34% on 2024, with a peak in December during the winter appeal. Repeat visits 61%. Food, advice and housing support are the three largest services.

spreadsheets, and three of them are called “final”.

  • impact_2025_FINAL.xlsx
  • impact_2025_FINAL_v2.xlsx
  • impact_2025_final_USE_THIS.xlsx
  • survey_export_march.csv
  • funder_template_blank.docx
Sound familiar?

You have plenty of data. What you're short of is time.

You know your work is changing lives. Showing it clearly is a different job, and it usually lands on someone who already has a full-time one.

  • The funder report is due on Friday, and the figures are spread across five files and two people's heads.
  • The board wants the whole year on one page. Building it means a weekend you don't have.
  • You collect survey results every year, and nobody has had time to look at them properly.

You're the expert in your cause. Making the numbers clear is my job.

What I do

Four ways I help your data do more good

Every project starts with what you need to show, and who you need to show it to. The software comes after that.

01 / Dashboards

Dashboards your team actually opens

Your board sees the quarter at a glance, in under a minute.

Built in Power BI, Looker Studio or a simple web page, using whatever you already pay for, and connected to your live data so nobody copies numbers by hand.

Talk about a dashboard
02 / Visualisation & reports

Charts and reports that funders keep

Funders get evidence they can lift straight into their own board papers.

Impact, annual and donor reports with clear, accessible charts for print, PDF and screen, plus methods notes a researcher can check.

Talk about a report
03 / Data stories

One finding, told so people act on it

A journalist, a minister or a supporter can repeat your key number accurately.

I find the headline in your data, test it honestly, and tell it as a scrolling web story, a briefing note or a single chart people share.

Talk about a story
04 / Web tools

Small tools that save your team hours

The fiddly jobs take minutes, and your team does them without needing me.

There are 15 free tools already, including a charity income snapshot and qualitative coding for interviews. I also build custom versions for your own forms and data.

Try the free tools

Not sure where to start?I'll look at the data you collect and tell you, in writing, the two or three things most worth doing first. It's free.

Ask for a free data audit
Free dashboard programme

Each quarter, I build one dashboard for free

It's built on the data you already have, around the questions you actually ask, and it's yours to keep. In return, I ask to tell the story of how it went.

Apply for a place How it works

Next pick: 30 November 2026

Selected work

What changes when the data is clear

These three are illustrative examples of the kind of work I take on, with invented figures. Real case studies will replace them as clients agree to be named.

2 days → 20 min

to produce the monthly report

Illustrative example

A food bank network sees demand coming

Regional food bank network · 9 sites

Challenge
Referrals arrived by email, phone and three online forms. Managers only found out a site was overstretched when it ran out of stock.
What I made
A single referral form feeding a Power BI dashboard, with a weekly view for each site and an alert when demand rises.
What changed
Stock now moves between sites a week earlier, and the monthly report is a 20-minute job.
+9 pts

average wellbeing score, start to end of support

Illustrative example

A youth charity shows funders what changed

Youth mental-health charity · 1,200 young people a year

Challenge
Four years of wellbeing questionnaires sat unanalysed, and a major grant renewal was due.
What I made
A cleaned dataset, an honest before-and-after analysis with its limits stated, and a 12-page impact report.
What changed
The renewal went in with evidence rather than anecdotes, and staff now run the analysis themselves each year.
1 chart

quoted in a parliamentary debate

Illustrative example

A think tank's finding reaches further

Social-policy think tank · housing research

Challenge
An 80-page report with one striking finding buried on page 47. The coverage was polite and brief.
What I made
A short scrolling data story, three charts made to be shared, and a methods note a journalist could check in five minutes.
What changed
National press picked up the finding, and it was quoted in a debate in Parliament.
How we work together

From a first chat to a team that runs it themselves

  1. A first chat

    Thirty minutes, free. You tell me what you need to show, and who you need to show it to. I'll say honestly whether I'm the right person.

  2. A fixed quote

    A one-page plan setting out what I'll make, what I need from you, the dates and a fixed price. There are no day-rate surprises.

  3. Build in short rounds

    You see something real every week or two, and tell me what's wrong with it. There's no big reveal at the end.

  4. You own it

    Handover and training

    A recorded walkthrough, notes in plain English and a training session, so your own team can update it without me.

Why Dataexact
person, from the first call to the handover

You work with me, not a team of juniors

  • The person you meet does the work.There are no handoffs and no account manager, and you never explain your service twice.
  • Priced for charity budgets.With no agency overheads and a fixed price agreed up front, a smaller first project is always possible.
  • I'd rather you didn't need me.Everything comes with the training to run it yourselves. Coming back should be your choice, not a dependency.
Trust

Careful with your data, and with the people in it

Data protection

  • I work to UK GDPR, and I'll sign your data processing agreement or provide my own
  • I ask for the least personal data the job needs, and anonymise it early
  • Where possible, I work inside your systems instead of copying data out
  • I delete your data at handover and confirm it in writing

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Ethical, honest analysis

  • Small counts are suppressed, so nobody can be identified
  • Limits and uncertainty are stated, not hidden in a footnote
  • If the data doesn't support the headline you hoped for, I'll tell you, and help you find the one it does support

Accessible by default

  • Charts and reports built to WCAG AA, with good contrast, alt text and data tables
  • Colours chosen for colour-blind readers, and checked in black and white
  • Plain English throughout, so anyone can read them, not just the data team

Who I work with: Charities NGOs Think tanks Universities & researchers Newsrooms Funders

Let's talk

Tell me what you're working on.

It doesn't need to be a finished brief. “We have lots of survey data and a report due in March” is a perfectly good place to start.

  1. 1I read every message myself, and reply within one working day.
  2. 2Usually I'll ask a couple of questions, then suggest a time for a 30-minute call.
  3. 3If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so, and point you to someone who is.

Prefer email? hello@dataexact.io

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