It's (sort of) official data4good folk prefer books over brownies

Brownies are, to the surprise of some, the least preferred of our three prize offers.

We ran a survey in November

Back in November 2020: 74 previous users of our Data Maturity Assessment tool took the time to complete our survey.

We were interested in understanding more about why people take an assessment and what impact the assessment has.

We’ve been thrilled by the results and we think you’re going to be very interested in them too. Look out for a report into that subject in early 2021.

We organised a prize draw

As a small thank you for taking part we organised a small prize draw. Participants could opt to enter the draw and select one of three prizes.

Based on this data we can confirm that the majority of data folk in the social sector (58%) would prefer to win a copy of “Creating a Data Driven Organisation” by Carl Anderson (a book that we love).

Just under a third of data folk would prefer to win a £20 donation to the non-profit of their choice.

Only 15% of data folk would prefer to win a box of “Flippin Delicious Chocolate Brownies” (this result startled our Co-Chief Executive Sian who had thought that the figure would be closer to the 90% range (they are very delicious)).

And three people won

We drew three names out of a spreadsheet (of course) and we are delighted to announce that:

• Lesley Dewhurst from Restore won a £20 donation to her charity. Restore is an Oxfordshire-based mental health charity that supports people to take control of their recovery, develop skills and lead meaningful lives).

• Katie Finch from Life Cycle UK won a box of Flippin Delicious Chocolate Brownies” . Life Cycle UK helps more people get cycling, to transform lives and the environment.

• A copy of “Creating a Data Driven Organisation” is due to be dispatched to an as-yet unnamed winner in New Zealand.

We’d like to congratulate the winners and offer fulsome thanks to everyone who took part in the survey.

When people take the time to tell us more about how they use the tool, we can make it more useful for others in the future.