Meet Henry Fair

I deal with the front-end data, extracting it and making it into something more visual so it’s easier for people to see and understand the results. It’s a lot of messing about with numbers and trying to figure out what it all means. 

I have a very number-orientated brain and can remember stuff and it just clicks, I like the process of getting things together - creating new fields and doing calculations. For example, working out what the average donation was across, say, 100 supporters who donated in the last month, it’s interesting.

During school I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I did work experience at Lloyds Bank in sixth form and worked in many departments and really liked the data work - I guess because I like numbers and gaming, so that appealed to me.

I did A levels in Business, Politics and Spanish, and there was a lot of analytical work within that which I enjoyed. I knew I didn’t want to go to university, a lot of my friends were looking at apprenticeships rather than university and I did the same.

Straight after sixth form, I volunteered at a library, and got a temporary job in Sainsburys, and once that ended, I was then offered and apprenticeship at the NSPCC. I’ve been here almost three years now and have completed my apprenticeship as a data analyst.