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Glasgow-based · UK & International · In-person and virtual delivery

Turning data confusion
into data confidence.

Practical, affordable data literacy and AI training for charities, community organisations, and small businesses. No jargon. No technical background needed. Real results from day one.

£300
Starting price per organisation
4
Specialist workshops
£30
As low as per person
Our four workshops
Data Literacy Fundamentalsfrom £300
AI Tools in Practicefrom £350
Power BI & Dashboardsfrom £550
M&E Frameworks for Fundersfrom £300

Up to 10 participants · In-person or virtual

The challenge

Scotland’s data skills gap is costing organisations funding and growth.

The Scottish Government’s 2026-27 Budget allocated £45 million to innovation, enterprise and entrepreneurship. The skills gap is real and growing. The infrastructure is there. The training is not.


Charities losing grants

National Lottery Community Fund, Comic Relief, and most major trusts now require monitoring and evaluation frameworks as a condition of funding. Most small Scottish charities cannot produce them, costing them grants they need to serve their communities.

AI adopted, not applied

According to the Scottish Government’s Business Insights and Conditions Survey, 61.9% of Scottish SMEs were not using AI technologies as of early 2025. The Data Lab’s free SME AI programme closed on 31 March 2026, removing the main free support route at precisely the moment demand peaked. (Source: Scottish Government BICS Wave 147, 2026)

No affordable sector-specific option

Evaluation Support Scotland charges up to £360 per person for evaluation-only training (check evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk for current prices). Commercial providers charge £800 to £2,000 per day. No provider combines data literacy, AI tools, Power BI, and M&E for funders in one affordable offer. DataBridge Scotland does.

45,000+
voluntary organisations in the UK with data reporting obligations
356,000+
UK SMEs where the owner is also the data analyst
61.9%
Scottish SMEs not yet using AI as of early 2025 (Scottish Govt BICS)
30.7%
Scottish businesses currently using any AI technology (Scottish Govt, 2026)
Market position – verified April 2026

The only provider combining all four areas in one affordable, accessible offer.

Price gap

Evaluation Support Scotland

Scotland’s main evaluation charity charges £360 per person for three evaluation-only workshops. DataBridge Scotland charges £300 per organisation for up to ten people, covering data literacy, AI tools, dashboards, and M&E in a single offer. That is £30 per person against £360.

Closed 31 March 2026

The Data Lab — SME AI Programme

The Data Lab’s free National AI Adoption Programme for Scottish SMEs closed on 31 March 2026, removing the primary free AI support route for thousands of businesses at precisely the moment DataBridge Scotland launched its first pilot workshops.

Strategic alignment

our national AI Strategy

Published by the Scottish Government in April 2026, Scotland’s AI Strategy sets out a five-year national commitment to responsible, inclusive AI adoption across all sectors, including community and voluntary organisations. DataBridge Scotland is precisely the provision that strategy requires at community level.

How it works

From first contact to confident data user.

Every organisation follows a simple journey from a free conversation to lasting data capability.

01

Free conversation

A 20-minute call to understand your organisation’s data challenges and recommend the right workshop or service for your situation.

02

Book your workshop

Choose from four full-day programmes. We come to your venue or deliver virtually. Up to 10 participants from £300 per organisation.

03

Learn and apply

Leave with practical skills, completed templates, and the confidence to use your data immediately. No jargon. No wasted time.

04

Stay supported

Join the DataBridge Member Club for monthly webinars, a resource library, and expert Q&A as your data needs evolve.

What people say

Pilot workshops confirmed for April and May 2026.

DataBridge Scotland launched in March 2026. Our first pilot workshops are confirmed with Ghana Welfare Association Scotland on 25 April and Global Presbyterian Worship Centre Glasgow on 2 May. Participant testimonials will appear here following those sessions.

Testimonial coming after 25 April pilot
Ghana Welfare Association Scotland
Testimonial coming after 2 May pilot
Global Presbyterian Worship Centre Glasgow
Your organisation could be next

Ready to turn your data into impact?

Start with a free 20-minute conversation. No commitment. No cost.

Our programmes

Four workshops. One provider. Real results.

Every workshop is a full day, built for non-technical participants, delivered at your venue or virtually, priced so any Scottish organisation can attend. Up to 10 participants per session.

WORKSHOP 01

Data Literacy Fundamentals

In-person or virtual · Full day · Up to 10 participants

The essential starting point for any organisation that collects data but struggles to use it. By the end of the day, every participant understands data well enough to have an informed conversation with any funder about their impact evidence.

Navigate spreadsheets and data tables with confidence
Calculate averages, percentages, and percentage change
Spot misleading charts and ask the right questions
Understand what funders actually want to see in your data
Build a simple data collection template for your organisation
£300 per organisation
As low as £30 per person
WORKSHOP 02

AI Tools in Practice

In-person or virtual · Full day · Up to 10 participants

Cut through the AI hype and focus on what tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude can actually do for your organisation today, safely and practically. Participants leave with their own prompt library and a clear safe-use framework.

Write effective prompts for grant applications and reports
Use AI to summarise long documents in seconds
Generate Excel formulas without any coding knowledge
Build a personal prompt library you can reuse indefinitely
Apply the six non-negotiable rules for safe AI use with client data
£350 per organisation
As low as £35 per person
WORKSHOP 03

Power BI & Dashboards

In-person (laptop required) · Full day · Up to 10 participants

From zero to a working, interactive dashboard in a single day. Every participant connects their own organisation’s data to Power BI Desktop or Google Looker Studio and leaves with a real dashboard ready to share with their board or funder.

Connect your own data to Power BI in under 30 minutes
Build five types of chart and visual from scratch
Add slicers and interactive filters your board can use
Apply the seven design principles of a good dashboard
Export and share a professional dashboard the same day
£550 per organisation
As low as £55 per person
WORKSHOP 04

M&E Frameworks for Funders

In-person or virtual · Full day · Up to 10 participants

Directly addresses the grant evidence crisis. Participants leave with a complete funder-ready monitoring and evaluation framework built around their own organisation’s work, ready to drop into any grant application.

Build a Theory of Change for your organisation
Write SMART outcome statements funders will accept
Create an indicator table with baselines and targets
Design a data collection plan your team can actually use
Write a 300-word impact narrative ready for applications
£300 per organisation
As low as £30 per person
£75/hour
1:1 Coaching
Personalised support for individuals
£350
Annual Data Health Check
90-minute video call + written report on your data systems
from £500
Done-for-You Services
M&E frameworks and Power BI dashboards built for you
Ongoing support

The DataBridge Member Club.

Stay current as data and AI keep changing.

AI tools change every month. Funder requirements evolve every year. The Member Club keeps your organisation current with monthly live webinars, a growing resource library, and expert Q&A, all for less than a coffee a day.

Every month Paul delivers a 90-minute live webinar to all members simultaneously, covering AI tool updates, M&E deep-dives, dashboard clinics, grant writing with data, Excel tips, and more. Recordings are available on demand.

Monthly 90-minute live Q&A webinar
Growing resource and template library
AI prompt library updated every month
M&E framework tools and checklists
Webinar recordings available on demand
Priority booking for all workshops
Starter
£19/ month per individual
For individual practitioners, freelancers, and sole traders. Includes monthly webinar access and the full resource library.
Most popular
Organisation
£29/ month per organisation
For charities, community groups, and SMEs. Full team access to webinars, the resource library, M&E templates, and priority workshop booking.
Premium
£59/ month per organisation
Everything in Organisation plus one 30-minute 1:1 call per quarter, a bespoke resource pack, and early access to new workshops.
Founding member offer — 2026 only Join before 31 December 2026 and lock in the founding member rate of £19/month for your first full year. Limited to the first 30 members.
The founder

Built by someone who has lived the challenge.

Paul Asare - Founder and Lead Trainer, DataBridge Scotland
Paul Asare Founder & Lead Trainer, DataBridge Scotland

DataBridge Scotland was built from 17 years of doing this work for real.

Between 2009 and 2022, Paul Asare served as Head of Monitoring and Evaluation and Budget Unit at Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority, one of West Africa’s most respected regulatory institutions. He led data systems for over 300 staff across 10 regional offices, built national regulatory monitoring frameworks, managed significant public sector budgets, and conducted international evaluation work for Rotary International in Kenya and Nigeria.

Since moving to Glasgow in 2022, Paul has lectured in statistics at the University of the West of Scotland and worked as a Tutor in Advanced Statistics and Mathematics at Glasgow International College. He serves as Secretary of the Internal Management Committee at Global Presbyterian Worship Centre Glasgow, has supported proposal writing for Ghana Welfare Association Scotland, and volunteers extensively across Glasgow’s diaspora and faith community sector. He also works bank shifts as a Care Assistant at Sanctuary Care in Prestwick.

DataBridge Scotland was founded because Paul saw the same problem everywhere: organisations doing extraordinary work, losing funding or falling behind on digital tools, because no one had shown them how to use their data. That is the problem he built this business to solve.

Qualification
MPhil Statistics, University of Ghana
Qualification
MSc Actuarial Science, University of Ghana
Qualification
PgDip Monitoring & Evaluation, NILERD India (2015)
Qualification
BSc Accounting & Finance, Presbyterian University College Ghana
Experience
12 years Head of M&E & Budget, Ghana Food and Drugs Authority
Experience
Tutor in Advanced Statistics & Mathematics, Glasgow International College
01

Practical trustworthiness

We only teach what works in the real world. Every tool, template, and technique has been tested in organisations like yours.

02

Genuine accessibility

No jargon. No assumptions. Pricing that does not price out the organisations that need this training most.

03

Community rootedness

We understand the communities we serve because we are part of them. Glasgow. Ghana. The UK diaspora. The voluntary sector worldwide.

Get in touch

Start with a free conversation.

Tell us about your organisation and your data challenges. No commitment and no cost for the initial call.

EMAIL
Email
paul.asare@databridgescotland.co.uk
WEB
Website
www.databridgescotland.co.uk
LOC
Location
Glasgow, Scotland
In-person workshops across the UK. Virtual delivery worldwide.
TIME
Response time
Within 24 hours on working days
Founding Member Offer
Join the DataBridge Member Club before 31 December 2026 and lock in the founding member rate for your first full year.
Confirmed Pilots
Ghana Welfare Association Scotland — 25 April 2026
Global Presbyterian Worship Centre Glasgow — 2 May 2026

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