Programme

This is what you can expect to experience at the data day.
More details about our contributors and the schedule for the day can be found below 👇

Lightning Talks

Get informed and inspired by keynote speakers: connecting arts, data and local action.

Themed Workshops

Hands-on sessions with artists and data experts taking a playful approach to explore data and build skills. 

Open Space

Bring your questions, ideas and hot topics

Throughout the data day, alongside our menu of pre-planned workshops, tables around the main room will be dedicated to open space discussions where you can set the agenda and bring your hot topics for discussion.

At our first break we'll be inviting you to suggest topics you would like to host or join discussion on during a 30-minute break out, and we'll be assigning these to tables for anyone to join. We'll be adding to this emergent agenda throughout the day. 

Come prepared with your session ideas. 

Exhibition Space

Drop by to learn about the latest census insights, data on grant funding, how libraries can help you find the facts you need, and many other local data-related projects and partners.

Expert Advice

Drop-in sessions with expert advisors on cyber security, data discovery and making data work for you. 

Arts & data

Premier of commissioned work exploring local insights with art, and interactive artist-led sessions. 

With local artist Joe Magee, Sumita Majumdar of Can’t Sit Still Theatre and Active Gloucester’s Alan Inman-Ward

Interactive Sessions

Join us in the Main Hall for some interactive sessions and reflections on proceedings as the day goes on

Programme details

AM

9.30am
Welcome and Introductions

  • Pippa Jones & Tim Davies: Welcome & Housekeeping
    Alan Inman Ward: ‘Listening to Data’

10am Lightning Talks

  • Data Orchard: Data Maturity Assessments

  • Dr John Wright, The Centre for Cultural Values: Valuing Culture: The ‘Making Data Work’ Project

  • Venture Play White City: Sharing ideas about we use data to change the narrative of how we talk about deprivation in communities

  • Gloucestershire Race Equality Action Group (GREAG): “Out of sight, out of mind?” The potential of data to be a disruptor in support of racial justice in Gloucestershire.

  • Access Social Care: Influencing the System with social care data

10.40am Interactive Sessions

Tim Davies, Connected by Data: Icebreaker Data Activities and Introduction to Open Space

10.50am Break

11.20am Workshops and Open Space (Session 1)

  • Glos VCS Alliance, Barnwood Trust & Inclusion Gloucestershire: Collaborating in research on disability and mental health in Gloucestershire

  • Joe Magee: Illustrating Data - Interactive Workshop to bring data alive,and into a format that people can more readily consume.

  • Sarah Cooksley, Cheltenham Festivals Data Face Project: Empowering girls- using creativity to diversify who engages with data

  • Open Space: This is the first section where you as participants guide what happens and talk about what matters to you. Grab a table and lead a discussion or join one of those planned.

PM

12.10pm Workshops and Open Space (Session 2)

  • 360Giving: Live Demo of GrantNav, 360Giving's free online search-engine for grants.

  • NHS Commissioning Group & Artshape: Data sharing without infringing GDPR- improving arts and health outcomes by integrating data across the NHS and cultural sectors

  • Glos Wildlife Trust / Glos Local Nature Partnership / Glos Centre for Environmental Records: Nature Recovery Network map, iRecord and Habimap

  • Can't Sit Still Theatre’s Sumita Majumdar: 'I counted the buttons...' - undizzying the data-norms

  • Open Space: This is the section where you as participants guide what happens and talk about what matters to you. Grab a table and lead a discussion or join one of those planned.

12.55pm Pre-Lunch Plenary

1.00pm Lunch PLUS Advice Surgeries & Exhibitor Marketplace

A delicious Vegan / Gluten-Free lunch will be served in the main hall.

Advice surgeries available with:

Excel Confident / 360Giving / Cyber Resilience Centre SW / Data Orchard / Active Gloucestershire

Surgeries will be bookable on the day with each of these providers at their Exhibitor Stall.

Browse the marketplace exhibitors:

Ask Gloucestershire / Excel Confident / ONS / Data Orchard / Cyber Resilience Centre SW / Active Gloucestershire / VCS Alliance / Inform Gloucestershire / Barnwood Trust

2.00pm Welcome Back: Re-energising for the afternoon

A chance to hear some reflections from the morning activities

2.15pm Workshops & Open Space (Session 3)

  • Inform Gloucestershire: Exploring Local Data - Where to go to find data about Gloucestershire and it's communities, and how to use it

  • Access Social Care: Influencing the system with social care data

  • John Wright: The Centre for Cultural Values - Valuing Culture: Making Data Work Project

  • Open Space: This is the section where you as participants guide what happens and talk about what matters to you. Grab a table and lead a discussion or join one of those planned.

Break 2.50pm

3.05pm Workshops & Open Space (Session 4)

  • Gateway Trust & Venture Play: Giving residents a voice - how to do neighbourhood led data collection.

  • Gloucestershire Race Equality Action Group: Reducing the data gap between the experiences of Black and minoritised communities and public/voluntary sector bodies.

  • VCS Alliance: State of the VCSE sector in Gloucestershire 2023- thriving and healthy or in slow decline?

  • Open Space: This is the first section where you as participants guide what happens and talk about what matters to you. Grab a table and lead a discussion or join one of those planned.

3.40pm Reporting Back from Open Space and Workshop Sessions

4.00pm Wrap Up

Reflections from our Artist of the Day and our Keynote Listener / Q&A / Final Words

4.30pm Close

Meet a few of our contributors bringing ideas, inspiration and skills to share

  • Nicola Hillary

    Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership

    LIGHTNING TALK/WORKSHOP

    The Nature Recovery Network map is one of the key projects of Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership. This is a brilliant map resource for Gloucestershire, mapping our most valuable habitats, and the locations which would be most valuable in terms of creating new woodland, wetland or grassland habitats.

    This talk will introduce the Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership; introduce the Nature Recovery Network map and look ahead to some ways the partnership will be using this data - in relation to biodiversity net gain commitments that developers will be asked to make from autumn 2023, and in relation to the Local Nature Recovery Strategy that the government will soon ask each county to develop.

  • Joe Magee

    Independant

    LIGHTNING TALK/WORKSHOP

    Data, Opinions, Pictures

    Joe will lead a group that take some (local) census data and produce visualisations that identify areas that participants find significant. The illustrations can make social/political statements if participants wish. The idea is to bring data alive, exploring how to covert it into a format that people can more readily consume.

  • Roz Warden

    Barnwood Trust

    THEMATIC WORKSHOP/ EXHIBITOR

    Collaborating in research on disability and mental health in Gloucestershire

    The workshop is held in collaboration with Inclusion Gloucestershire and VCS Alliance

    Barnwood Trust’s vision is to create the best possible environment in Gloucestershire for disabled people and people with mental health challenges to make the most of their lives.

    This workshop is to explore the potential for developing greater collaboration in the county, with a focus on discussing ideas, opportunities, and possibilities for future connection.

  • Ross Brown

    South West Cyber Security Network

    ADVICE SURGERIES/ MARKETPLACE STALL

    How the SWCRC can help your business stay safer online

    We are a police/ private not-for-profit partnership, funded by the Home Office, and covering the South West of the country. We offer free and inexpensive cyber services for local SME’s and third sector organisations.

    Cyber is dauting for small businesses and sole traders. It’s hard to know where to start, services can be expensive, and it’s not always obvious who you can trust. The South West Cyber Resilience Centre (SWCRC) aims to solve all of these problems.

  • Mark Gale

    Gloucester Gateway Trust

    WORKSHOP
    Mark will be talking about gathering neighbourhood data - and residents speaking for themselves.

  • Lizzie Homer

    Active Gloucestershire

    ADVICE SURGERIES/ MARKETPLACE STALL
    Lizzie will be at the dataday to show people how to can utilise all of the tools on Canva.

  • Matt Lennard

    Gloucestershire VCS Alliance

    LIGHTNING TALK

    State of the VCSE Sector

    A whistle-stop introduction into the VCSE Sector in Gloucestershire and its current operational environment.

  • Sumita Majumdar

    WORKSHOP

    'I counted the buttons...' Undizzying the data-norms.
    A personal performance-presentation-reflection of neurodivergent data-collection, including sharing experiences of data-collecting/observing/processing from ‘Can’t Sit Still’’s ‘Being Me’ project (creative clubs for autistic beingness)

  • Anira Khokhar

    Gloucestershire Racial Equality Action Group (GREAG).

    LIGHTNING TALK

    Currently, there is no single structure in Gloucestershire with the mandate and resources to provide advocacy, knowledge, expertise and experience to reduce racial inequality.

    GREAG aims to bridge these gaps as a comprehensive structure acting as the voice of black and brown-led organizations.Anira and Chiara will discuss Black South West Network (BSWN) report, its findings and what we can all do going forward.

  • Marion Galley

    360Giving
    WORKSHOP

    Join 360Giving to learn how charities, civil society organisations and fundraisers can use GrantNav, 360Giving's free online search-engine for grants.

  • Rowan Renow-Clarke & Katherine Martin

    INFORM GLOUCESTERSHIRE

    WORKSHOP/MARKETPLACE STALL

    Join Inform Glos to find out where to go to find data about Gloucestershire and it's communities, and how to use it.

  • Alison Pollecutt

    Excel Confident

    WORKSHOP

    Join this workshop to better understand the measures that are important to you and your business

  • Madelaine Spinks

    Data Orchard

    LIGHTNING TALK

    Why not do a Data Maturity Assessment?

    If you don't know where to start at using data more effectively, we have just the thing to help - a data maturity assessment, developed specifically for the not for profit sector. This will show you where your organisation is now and where its strengths and weaknesses are. It's a tool that helps start a dialogue about data across the organisation, better understanding of what is possible and motivates and inspires people to improve.

  • Kari Gerstheimer & Jacky Martel

    Access Social Care

    LIGHTNING TALK

    Influencing the system with social care data

    Access Social Care will present their legal information chatbot and explain how they want to use quantitative and qualitative data to drive system level change.

    Kari is the CEO and founder of Access Social Care. A human rights lawyer by background, Kari has worked in the social care sector for over 15 years and is passionate about people with social care needs, carers and careworkers using the law and rights based approaches to secure improved social care outcomes.

    Jacky is Senior Advice Coordinator at Access Social Care for the Gloucestershire Hub. This is funded by Barnwood Trust to explore how we can best support residents of Gloucestershire and use data to influence social care policies in the county.

  • Sarah Cooksley, Cheltenham Festivals

    THEMATIC WORKSHOP

    DataFace: Empowering girls - using creativity to diversify who engages with data

    Cheltenham Festivals will share their Data Face project which has engaged secondary school pupils in Gloucestershire in creative data projects. Early work created by young people will be shared and you will have a chance to learn why the project was set up and how DataFace has helped young people, especially girls to get involved with data in new ways.

    Cheltenham Festivals is a charity based in Cheltenham but working across the county as well as nationally and Internationally. We aim to bringing joy, spark curiosity, connect communities, and inspiring change year-round through four world-class Festivals in Jazz, Science, Music and Literature, and charitable programmes for education, community, and talent development.

  • John Wright, Centre for Cultural Value, Leeds Uni

    LIGHTNING TALK/ THEMATIC WORKSHOP

    A crisis in cultural data? How can we radically re-think evaluation methods to better tell the story of what arts and culture contribute to community life.

    How do we negotiate what ‘artist’, ‘art’, ‘creative’, ‘culture’ really mean: who gets to decide what does and doesn’t count?

    How can we radically re-think evaluation methods to better tell the story of what arts and culture contribute to community life. How might this require us to explore and negotiate what ‘artist’, ‘art’, ‘creative’, ‘culture’ really mean: who gets to decide what does and doesn’t count?