The project focused on accelerating the uptake and use of bedload data by researchers and practitioners through discussions leading to the development of an interactive portal for sharing, manipulating and creatively visualising such data. An interdisciplinary workshop to publicize the project was held in May 2018. The workshop bought together researchers and river management professionals representing regulators, water utilities, local authorities and the third sector: Peter Downs explained why understanding bedload is important for managing flood risk and biodiversity; The Data Place discussed the value of open and shareable data; and Controlled Frenzy demonstrated ways of visualising and using the initial data. The workshop gave participants the opportunity to discuss and share ideas for taking advantage of this newly available bedload data resource and to make recommendations on how to maximise the benefits of an open data platform – there was considerable interest in how contributing ‘local’ data to a shared resource potentially creates a much greater impact during a time of dwindling budgets for project monitoring.