Backstory

Maps are known to make complex information easier to digest, and help make the situations of both minorities and majorities better known.

Putting the facts on maps promotes quicker and easier team collaboration, and therefore can help build better leadership actions, and team relationships, based on something near to reality.

At MapAid, our past and present goal is to inspire hope, built on reality.

With your support, our maps developed in the UK and across the world, could go on to make a real difference to small African farmers and ultimately, to the benefit all humanity.

It’s a big idea, but we believe it’s possible.

The UK Unemployment Map, made in 2022 but using earlier data, shows youth unemployment across the UK and matches this to some incredible local vocational training sites which are supporting them.

Such maps are primarily designed to help young people find vocational education and training near them; making way for careers in areas that require workers with their specific skills and boosting the UK economy. This approach can have a direct, positive impact on both the expected post-COVID economic downturn and the uncertainty surrounding Brexit.

The Big UK Hope Map, made in 2021 shows all the hospitals across the UK and matches them up to some incredible local charities which are supporting them. These supporting organisations and people, large and small, have been providing an armada of support 24/7 for the hospitals and its workers, including things such as meals, scrubs, and PPE.

This map allows you to see which local charities are supporting hospitals near you and allows you to donate directly to that charity. Supporting them in their ongoing efforts to keep our NHS working at full capacity in the fight against COVID-19.

We made a map series commencing in early 2020 showing rates of Covid cases and absolute numbers of cases to help illustrate the impact and spread of Coronavirus in local communities. Here is the September 2020 map.

This mapping is the first of its kind in the UK as it accumulates the most up to date data from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and was updated in real time as the data became available.

In this map series we are documenting on a weekly basis the number of Global cases and deaths as a result of COVID-19. Here, in the Week 29-30 map you can see how many cases, and deaths, there were in the previous week and which countries are impacted directly. Every week the map was updated to show the latest hotspots.