Better use of data will help improve charities’ relationship with government, leaders say

Charities need to gather better data and then use it to tell stories that engage in order to influence policy makers, sector leaders said yesterday.

Rita Chadha, chief executive of the Small Charities Coalition, and Sarah Vibert, director of public policy and volunteering at NCVO, were speaking at the launch of Small Charities Data hub, a project led by the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales (LBFEW).

The new resource pulls together data from a range of sources to help charities understand their impact and be able to explain it to policy makers.

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