For charities, housing teams and community organisations
Local evidence you can put to work.
Available now · free
Use the public resources
Download local figures, cite an explainer or embed an existing chart. Keep the original source, date and credit with anything you reuse.
Commissioned work · by agreement
Ask for a local evidence brief
A clearly sourced brief for a funding application, community presentation or service planning discussion. Tell me the place, the question and what you need to do with the answer.
Discuss a brief →Scope, price and timing are agreed before any paid work starts.
A useful starting point
One place. One clear question.
Community needs
Explain local poverty and living cost pressures, with the reporting years and comparison areas made clear.
Costs and context
Bring council tax, local figures and the relevant public sources together in a format your readers can understand.
Evidence for a decision
Turn an existing public dataset into a small set of charts and plain English findings, with its limits explained.
Evidence comes first
Commissioned work pays for research and presentation time. It does not buy a favourable finding, editorial coverage or a representative’s rating. Public tools and published datasets remain free to use under their stated terms.
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