Tania Cohen

The prime minister must face facts and end the two-child limit on benefits A group of charities have joined together to write to the PM calling for action on child poverty and an end to the two-child benefit limit.

Great new piece in the @bigissue.com from @endchildpoverty.bsky.social on ending the two child limit on benefits www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Why do ambitious women have flat heads? Dame Stephanie Shirley is the most successful tech entrepreneur you never heard of. In the 1960s, she founded a pioneering all-woman software company in the UK, which was ultimately valued at $3 billi...

Very sad to hear of the passing of Dame Stephanie Shirley at the weekend - entrepreneur, philanthropist and campaigner. I had the fortune to meet 'Steve' several times in my career - a truly inspiring pioneer.

If you don't know about her, please watch her Ted Talk
www.ted.com/talks/dame_s...

🤔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...

Summer Vocal Workshops 2025 Brush up on your vocal technique over the summer, with three excellent guest choral directors. Open to all, but places must be booked in advance. Workshops run from 6.15 to 8.30pm. £10 each or £25 for...

🎶 Have a go at singing or brush up on vocal techniques this summer with London City Chorus and guest choral directors. Open to all but must book in advance. £10 each or £25 for all 3 workshops.
www.eventbrite.com/cc/summer-vo...

Steve Morgan Foundation logo and 360 Giving logo with the text 'we publish open grants data'

This week @360giving.org celebrates its 10th anniversary. The organisation promotes open, effective and strategic grant-making.

The 360Giving platform allows us to openly publish our grants data to assist with analysis and inform strategy and collaborations.

So proud of my team and everything that has been achieved over the last decade!

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

🤔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...

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...

Word of the Day: HYPERNORMALISATION - the state of a society where people continue to live according to rules that they know are not actually working.

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.

The new edition of UKGrantmaking is out 💡

The definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK, it has data on £23bn worth of grants in 2023 to 2024 from over 14,000 grantmakers.

Explore the data: www.ukgrantmaking.org

🎉 It's here! I'm so proud of the work that my team and partner organisations have done on this. It looks simple, but it is a massive undertaking.

Now with even more data and insights, and a new narrative section that takes a deep-dive into current issues.

Let me know what you think!

If you are a member of @londonfunders.bsky.social then come to a workshop I'm doing on Wednesday with the @360giving.org first presentation on the findings from the latest edition of UKGrantmaking.org which is launching this week. Book now: festivaloflearning.londonfunders.org.uk/programme/se...

Do you work with women and young people in Middlesbrough? Be sure to register for this event with @turn2us.bsky.social, Buttle UK and the Smallwood Trust about the future of our programme for tackling gendered and child poverty in Middlesbrough.

🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/townhall-p...

Are you a funder who wants to help make grantmaking more equitable? The DEI Data Standard is a framework to help monitor the equity of your funding.

Learn more at our free introductory workshop!

Online, 6th May - learn more and book ⏬

www.360giving.org/support/?eve...

We need to talk...
@360giving.org has published my new blog. It's a topic I feel deeply about: the often-overlooked power dynamics within data itself. I've been reflecting on how power plays out in grantmaking and the significant part data plays.
What do you think?
www.360giving.org/2025/04/30/p...

Check this out - loads of interesting sessions - including the first presentation of UKGrantmaking 2025 by @360giving.org!

As part of our commitment to being open and transparent we work with 360Giving to publish where all our grants are awarded. It will help groups, fund holders and researchers understand the causes we fund and the areas we support. See our info: ⬇️
www.dorsetcommunityfoundation.org/who-we-help/...

Are you a funder who wants to help make grantmaking more equitable? The DEI Data Standard is a framework to help monitor the equity of your funding.

Learn more at our free introductory workshop!

Online, 6th May - learn more and book ⏬

www.360giving.org/support/?eve...

360Insights 360Giving Insights is the home of all insights about grantmaking data including data published using the 360Giving Data Standard.

Do you want to find out more about what’s in the 360Giving data? Look no further than our data summaries on 360Insights!

Check out our interactive visualisations and more⬇️
insights.threesixtygiving.org

#DataViz #OpenData #OpenGrants

Leadenhall Market: An Architectural Wonder In the heart of the City of London, tucked between gleaming glass skyscrapers and frantic financial dealings, lies Leadenhall Market: a place where history and commerce have been dancing an elaborate waltz for over 700 years. It’s a market with—thanks to its ornate Victorian splendour—enough aesthetic charm to make even the most jaded Londoner pause mid-rush hour. The Market That Refuses to Die…

Leadenhall Market: An Architectural Wonder

In the heart of the City of London, tucked between gleaming glass skyscrapers and frantic financial dealings, lies Leadenhall Market: a place where history and commerce have been dancing an elaborate waltz for over 700 years. It’s a market with—thanks to…

We need your feedback on our work - less than 1 week left to tell us how we did!⏰

We want to know how we’ve done and what you need from us so we can improve our work.

Please take 10 mins to complete our feedback survey.

💬Submit your views by 3rd April!

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The best resources for fundraisers to search for funders, for free - 360Giving How can you identify potential funders for your work using open data? Here we set out some of the best free resources for fundraisers to search for funders

Are you a charity fundraiser? #OpenData about grants, published by UK funders in the 360Giving Data Standard, could help you.

Start exploring what specific funders give in grants with our blog👇
www.360giving.org/2021/03/30/b...

#OpenGrants #Funders #Fundraising

#anniversary #grateful #teamwork #impact #philanthropy #opendata… | Tania Cohen MBE I appreciate that today is the 5 year anniversary for significant world events, being the first day of the first Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in the UK, but it…

🎉 Today marks my 5-year anniversary at @360giving.bsky.social
A lot has changed since then - and not just that we are allowed to talk in person now! I'm so proud of my team and how much has been achieved with just 6 permanent staff members. Here are some reflections
www.linkedin.com/posts/taniac...

📊Our 1-1 Data support is for funders, policy-makers, researchers, or journalists who want to use open grants data to answer questions and tackle projects – whether in a report, a presentation or independent research.

Book a free session👇
www.360giving.org/service/1-1-...

#OpenData #OpenGrants

UKGrantmaking UKGrantmaking is the definitive annual publication on grant funding in the UK. It is a unique cross-sector collaboration between 360Giving, the Association of Charitable Foundations…

📢 Out now - my new @civilsociety.bsky.social article about www.ukgrantmaking.org , @360giving.bsky.social and all things grants and data.

Read more about our collaboration with @acf.org.uk, @londonfunders.bsky.social, @ukcf.bsky.social, ACO & Pears Foundation
www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/t...

Ornate but rusted abandoned gasholder with bright blue sky

Beautiful light on the great walking tour on the industrial history of the Lower Lea led by @robssmith.bsky.social

Is there a word for when you think you have finally got the Wordle in 1 after 1200 tries, only to have excitement dashed when the last letter is revealed?

Wordle 1,361 2/6

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A screenshot of the GrantNav homepage, showing the search bar, with a count of the 1,186,203 grants and 318 funders in the searchable data below.

📈Are you a researcher or journalist interested in understanding funding in the UK?

Explore #OpenData about UK grants with our free search engine, GrantNav.🔎
grantnav.threesixtygiving.org

#OpenGrants #Research