UK Charity Data — Trustees, Contact & Financials

Need verified data on UK charities — who they are, how to reach them, who runs them, and how they perform? This Actor turns the official Charity Commission for England & Wales register into clean, ready-to-use records: ~170,000 registered charities with identity, status, contact details (email, phone, website), latest income & expenditure — plus, on demand, the trustees and the full annual-report financials.

Built on the Charity Commission's official register extract, Open Government Licence v3.0 — free for commercial reuse and redistribution. No API key, no login, no fragile HTML scraping — it reads the register's daily data files directly.

• 🇬🇧 ~170K registered charities — the whole register of England & Wales
• 📇 Contact details — email, phone and website, straight from the register (great for outreach/lead lists)
• 👥 Trustees (opt-in) — names, chair flag, person/organisation, appointment date
• 📊 Financials (opt-in) — income by source, expenditure, assets, reserves, funds, employee count; headline income & expenditure always included
• 🆓 Open Government Licence — reuse and resell, no key, no scraping

Quick start (API)

Find active hospices with a contact email, plus their financials:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/foxlabs~uk-charity-data/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "searchQuery": "hospice", "onlyWithEmail": true, "includeFinancials": true, "maxResults": 200 }'

Prefer no code? Open the Input tab, set your filters, and click Start — then download the results.

What you get

One clean, flat record per charity:

Field	Type	Description
charityName	string	Registered charity name
registeredCharityNumber	string	Public charity number
organisationNumber	string	The register's internal key (used in the registry URL)
charityType	string	e.g. Charitable company, CIO, Trust
status	string	Registered or Removed
dateRegistered / dateRemoved	string	Registration / removal dates (YYYY-MM-DD)
address / city / postcode	string	Registered contact address
phone / email / website	string	Published contact details
latestIncome / latestExpenditure	number	Latest reported income & spend (GBP)
latestIncomeFormatted	string	Display string, e.g. £734,753,802
financialYearEnd	string	End of the latest reported financial year
activities	string	The charity's own description of what it does
companyNumber	string	Companies House number, if the charity is also a company
isCIO / isInsolvent / hasGiftAid	bool	Status flags
trustees (opt-in)	array	{ name, isChair, type, appointedDate } per trustee
financials (opt-in)	object	Latest annual-return breakdown (see below)
source / license / registryUrl	string	Provenance — the register, OGL v3.0, and the charity's register page

financials (when includeFinancials is on): financialYearEnd, totalIncome, totalExpenditure, incomeDonations, incomeCharitable, incomeTrading, incomeInvestments, expenditureCharitable, reserves, netAssets, cash, fundsRestricted, fundsUnrestricted, employees.

Missing values come back as null, never a guess.

Sample output

Real record for Cancer Research UK (charityNumbers: ["1089464"], trustees + financials on) — trustees abbreviated (14 in full):

{
  "charityName": "CANCER RESEARCH UK",
  "registeredCharityNumber": "1089464",
  "organisationNumber": "3987102",
  "charityType": "Charitable company",
  "status": "Registered",
  "dateRegistered": "2001-11-23",
  "address": "Cancer Research UK, 2 Redman Place, LONDON",
  "city": "LONDON",
  "postcode": "E20 1JQ",
  "phone": "020 7242 0200",
  "email": "secretariat@cancer.org.uk",
  "website": "www.cancerresearchuk.org",
  "latestIncome": 734753802,
  "latestExpenditure": 714723789,
  "latestIncomeFormatted": "£734,753,802",
  "financialYearEnd": "2025-03-31",
  "companyNumber": "04325234",
  "isCIO": false,
  "hasGiftAid": true,
  "trustees": [
    { "name": "Lord Simon Stevens", "isChair": false, "type": "person", "appointedDate": "2023-10-01" },
    { "name": "Professor Dame Nancy Jane Rothwell", "isChair": false, "type": "person", "appointedDate": "2024-10-17" }
  ],
  "financials": {
    "financialYearEnd": "2025-03-31",
    "totalIncome": 734753802, "totalExpenditure": 714723789,
    "incomeDonations": 530012997, "incomeCharitable": 59000260,
    "reserves": 363401796, "cash": 24855363, "employees": 5169
  },
  "source": "Charity Commission for England & Wales — register extract",
  "license": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "registryUrl": "https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/3987102/charity-overview"
}

Example inputs (copy & paste)

// 1) Active charities in a city, with a contact email
{ "location": "Manchester", "onlyWithEmail": true, "status": "registered", "maxResults": 5000 }

// 2) Exact lookup by charity number, with trustees & financials
{ "charityNumbers": ["1089464", "202918"], "includeTrustees": true, "includeFinancials": true }

// 3) Name search — every active charity whose name contains "hospice"
{ "searchQuery": "hospice", "status": "registered" }

// 4) Large charities with full financials (filter downstream by latestIncome)
{ "includeFinancials": true, "maxResults": 20000 }

// 5) Build a trustee / board contact map
{ "searchQuery": "foundation", "includeTrustees": true, "onlyWithEmail": true }

// 6) Whole register incl. removed charities (audit / history)
{ "status": "all", "maxResults": 200000 }

Input & filters

• Charity name contains (searchQuery) — case-insensitive substring on the charity name.
• Charity numbers (charityNumbers) — exact registered charity numbers; overrides the name search.
• Status (status) — registered (active), removed, or all.
• Location contains (location) — matches the address or postcode.
• Only with email (onlyWithEmail) — keep only charities that publish a contact email.
• Include trustees (includeTrustees) — attach the trustee list.
• Include detailed financials (includeFinancials) — attach the latest annual-return breakdown.
• Max results (maxResults) — 1 to 500,000.

Use cases

• Nonprofit outreach & fundraising. Filter by name, cause or location, keep only charities with an email, and build a targeted, GDPR-friendly (public register) outreach list.
• Grant-making & due diligence. Verify a charity's registration, income, reserves and trustees before awarding or partnering.
• KYC / KYB for the third sector. Resolve the exact registered charity, its trustees (the people in control) and its Companies House number in one call.
• Sector research & benchmarking. Pull financials across thousands of charities to size a cause area, rank by income, or track reserves and headcount.
• Board / trustee mapping. Attach trustees to reconstruct who sits on which boards across the sector.

Performance & throughput

The Actor reads the Charity Commission's daily register extract directly and queries it locally with DuckDB. Identity + contact runs are quick; trustees and financials each add one reference file, so those runs download a little more up front. A whole-register sweep pages through all ~170K registered charities up to your maxResults. No proxies, no keys, no per-request rate limits.

Integrations

JavaScript (apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('foxlabs/uk-charity-data').call({
  searchQuery: 'hospice', onlyWithEmail: true, maxResults: 500,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

Python (apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient
client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("foxlabs/uk-charity-data").call(run_input={
    "searchQuery": "hospice", "onlyWithEmail": True, "maxResults": 500,
})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["charityName"], item["registeredCharityNumber"])

Also works with Make / n8n / Zapier, scheduled runs, webhooks, and the Apify MCP server for AI agents.

Data quality (honest)

• Identity & status are complete for every registered charity — name, number, type, status and registration date are core register fields.
• Contact details are strong but not universal — most active charities publish an email/phone/website, but some don't; missing values are null. Contact is the charity's own published data.
• Headline financials (latestIncome / latestExpenditure) are present for charities that have filed; the detailed financials come from the most recent annual return (Part B) and exist for charities above the reporting threshold.
• Trustees reflect the register's current list; the isChair flag is set where the Commission records it.
• Removed charities carry historical data and often have no current contact — filter to registered (the default) for active outreach.
• Nothing is fabricated — a missing value is null, never a guess. This is England & Wales only (Scotland's OSCR and Northern Ireland's CCNI are separate registers).

Pricing

Pay per result — you're billed per charity returned; trustees and financials are included in that price when enabled. There's an Apify free tier to evaluate the full feature set. No proxies, no third-party API costs — the Charity Commission extract is a free public open-data source.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The official Charity Commission for England & Wales register extract, published daily.

Can I use this data commercially / resell it? Yes. It's published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits commercial reuse and redistribution with attribution. Records carry a Source credit.

Do I get contact emails? Yes — where the charity published one. Use Only with email to keep just those records.

Does it cover Scotland and Northern Ireland? No — this is England & Wales (Charity Commission). Scotland (OSCR) and Northern Ireland (CCNI) maintain separate registers.

How fresh is it? The Commission republishes the extract daily; each run reads the current files.

Do I need an API key or account for the source? No. No key, no login, no scraping.

What export formats? JSON, CSV, Excel, or via the Apify API / integrations.

Troubleshooting

• Few / no results → your filters may be too narrow, or the charities are Removed (the default is registered only — set status to all).
• No trustees / financials on a record → confirm the relevant toggle is on; very small charities may not file detailed financials.
• Name search returns extra matches → it's a substring match; narrow with location or an exact charityNumbers lookup.

Notes, limits & legal (honest)

• Official open data, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Not affiliated with the Charity Commission.
• England & Wales only. Scotland (OSCR) and NI (CCNI) are separate registers.
• Contact & financials are what charities filed with the Commission; coverage varies by size and filing obligations.
• Personal data is limited to what the public register publishes (trustee names, roles).

Support

Questions, a field you'd like added, or a custom build? Open the Issues tab on this Actor, or email info@foxlabs.com.tr. We reply fast.

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Changelog

0.1 — 2026-07-09

• Initial release. ~170K registered charities from the official Charity Commission (England & Wales) register extract: identity, status, contact (email/phone/web), latest income & expenditure, with opt-in trustees and detailed annual-report financials. Open Government Licence v3.0, no key.

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