Data Aid 2023 Event

About DataAid:

• The DataAid programme is run by AIMLAC & DI CDTs at the universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor, Bristol, Cardiff, and Swansea, and in association with Supercomputing Wales (SCW) but is open to all postgraduate students.
• We run two-day long hackathon events doing data analysis for charities.
• Participants at the events work in teams on projects from our charity partners.
• These projects aim to deliver outcomes to improve the charity’s operations, help them to find weak areas or extend their reach, and give them useful metrics to pitch to funding bodies.

DataAid 2023 Event:

• The event will be held in Cardiff as an in-person event on the 14^th and 15^th March, but it may be possible to accommodate for those who can only attend online.
• Accommodation costs will be covered for the event for the 13^th and 14^th, along with catering for the two days and a dinner on the 14^th  for volunteers and charity personnel.
• Our charity partners for 2023 are InKind Direct, SUDEP and Magic Breakfast.
• More information on each charity has below :  “Charity introduction”. 
• The analysis questions each charity would like answered are below :  “Charity Questions”.

Event Registration:

• We ask all participants to complete the GDPR training courses from their universities. If you cannot find this at your university, we may be able to help.
• All data for the hackathon event is held on a secure SCW server, therefore a SCW account is needed to participate. Any student with credentials at a Welsh university can apply for an account, and anyone else can be given a quest account for the event.
• If interested, please fill in the registration form: https://form.jotform.com/220662766829871

Charity Introduction :

DataAid 2023 charities

Magic Breakfast

Magic Breakfast ensures that no child in its partner schools is too hungry to learn by providing healthy breakfast food and expert support to help identify and reach those pupils at risk of hunger. A hungry child cannot concentrate so could miss out on half a day of lessons every school day if not given anything nutritious to eat first thing. Magic Breakfast works with over 1,000 Primary, Secondary and ASL/Special Educational Needs schools, plus Pupil Referral Units, offering breakfasts to over 200,000 children each school day. Its partner schools are in most counties in England. In Scotland it works with 38 schools. All children in local authority maintained primary schools in Wales are entitled to a free school breakfast. However, Magic Breakfast's goal is for there to be no child in the UK too hungry to learn so it is researching the need for our support in Wales and would be keen to extend help where needed, and when funding allows. Magic Breakfast is also researching the need for its services in Northern Ireland. Once a school has submitted an application for support, and Magic Breakfast has checked whether they are eligible for help, it will hold their details on file and contact them as soon as funding becomes available. For a school in England to be eligible, at least 35% of pupils should be recorded as eligible for Pupil Premium. A Primary School in Scotland qualifies for Magic Breakfast support when at least 55% of pupils are in SIMD Deciles 1 to 4 and/or at least 35% are eligible for FSM. A Secondary School qualifies for support when at least 40% of pupils are in SIMD Deciles 1 to 4. To find out more: https://www.magicbreakfast.com/

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