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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.
Up to 10 participants · In-person or virtual
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every organisation follows a simple journey from a free conversation to lasting data capability.
A 20-minute call to understand your organisation’s data challenges and recommend the right workshop or service for your situation.
Choose from four full-day programmes. We come to your venue or deliver virtually. Up to 10 participants from £300 per organisation.
Leave with practical skills, completed templates, and the confidence to use your data immediately. No jargon. No wasted time.
Join the DataBridge Member Club for monthly webinars, a resource library, and expert Q&A as your data needs evolve.
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.
Start with a free 20-minute conversation. No commitment. No cost.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We only teach what works in the real world. Every tool, template, and technique has been tested in organisations like yours.
No jargon. No assumptions. Pricing that does not price out the organisations that need this training most.
We understand the communities we serve because we are part of them. Glasgow. Ghana. The UK diaspora. The voluntary sector worldwide.
Tell us about your organisation and your data challenges. No commitment and no cost for the initial call.