# Government Board selects 360Giving Data Standard for disclosing of grant data

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/03/22/government-board-selects-360giving-data-standard-for-disclosing-of-grant-data/
- Published: 2019-03-22T08:00:11+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**The UK Government’s Open Standards Board has selected the 360Giving Data Standard
for use by central government departments and their agencies when disclosing grant
giving data.**

 

The board’s purpose is to encourage departments to use open standards to save money,
but also to make better use of data as well as to collaborate.

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Jeni Tennison, CEO of the [Open Data Institute](https://theodi.org/) said:

 

> “It is great to see that the [360Giving Standard](http://www.threesixtygiving.org/support/standard/)
> has been approved as an official government standard for the open publication 
> of grant awards by the public sector. It is an excellent complement to the Open
> Contracting Data Standard, which focuses on government procurement.
> “Data standards make it easier to build tools that can work across data from different
> organisations. Standards help people understand how things change over time, compare
> what different organisations are doing, and relate data of different types. All
> parts of government issue grants and contracts; publishing this data in a standard
> way helps government, other grant givers, grantees, contractors and the interested
> public to see and understand the bigger picture of government spending.”

 

Founder and Chair of 360Giving Fran Perrin added:

 

> “Now that our data standard is official government guidance, we are looking forward
> to more government departments, local authorities and other parts of the public
> sector joining our community of 100 grantmakers giving us the bigger picture about
> funding flows to the charity sector.”

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