Charity Commission Register Search (England & Wales)

Search all 170,000+ registered charities in England and Wales (plus 210,000 removed ones) and export them as a clean table: name, charity number, income and spending, year end, address, phone, email, website, company number, what the charity does, and optionally its causes, beneficiaries and areas of operation.

Filter by name, postcode area, income band, cause, beneficiary group, how the charity works (e.g. grant-makers), where it operates, registration date or removal date. No API key needed: the actor reads the Charity Commission's official register extract, which is refreshed every day.

What it's for

• Fundraising and grant research: find every grant-making charity working with children in Yorkshire, or all charities with income over £1m funding the environment.
• B2B sales to the charity sector: build lead lists for software, insurance, audit, payroll and consultancy, by size and location, with published contact details.
• New registrations: catch charities registered in the last week or month (registeredFrom).
• Due diligence and monitoring: look up a list of charity numbers and check status, latest income, whether accounts are overdue (reportingStatus), insolvency or administration.
• Research and journalism: income distributions, charities removed since a date, sector mapping.

Input

Field	What it does
nameContains	Part of the name. Spaces and punctuation are ignored, so food bank also finds FOODBANK.
charityNumbers	Look up specific registered charity numbers.
postcodePrefixes	Contact postcode starts with: LS (all of Leeds), M1, SW1A. LS1 won't match LS11.
areasOfOperation	Where the charity says it operates: Leeds City, Wales, Kenya.
causes	What it does: Education/training, Animals, Disability, Prevention or relief of poverty… (17 options).
beneficiaries	Who it helps: Children/young people, Elderly/old people, People with disabilities… (7 options).
activities	How it helps: Makes grants to organisations, Provides services… (10 options).
activitiesContain	Text in the charity's own description of its activities.
status	registered (default), removed or all.
minIncome / maxIncome	Latest annual income in pounds.
registeredFrom / registeredTo	Registration date range.
removedFrom	Removed from the register on or after this date.
cioOnly	Only Charitable Incorporated Organisations.
withContactDetailsOnly	Only charities with a published email, phone or website.
includeLinkedCharities	Include linked (subsidiary) charities, which are left out by default.
includeClassifications	Add causes, beneficiaries, howItHelps and areasOfOperation lists to each row.
sortBy	charityNumber (default), incomeDesc or registeredDesc.
maxResults	Stop after this many (default 1,000).

Grant-makers for children and young people in Leeds, biggest first:

{
    "activities": ["Makes grants to organisations"],
    "beneficiaries": ["Children/young people"],
    "areasOfOperation": ["Leeds"],
    "sortBy": "incomeDesc",
    "includeClassifications": true
}

Food banks in Manchester and Leeds:

{
    "nameContains": "food bank",
    "postcodePrefixes": ["M", "LS"]
}

Output

{
    "charityNumber": 274192,
    "linkedCharityNumber": null,
    "organisationNumber": 274192,
    "name": "PENNINE CAMPHILL COMMUNITY",
    "status": "Registered",
    "type": "Charitable company",
    "isCio": false,
    "registeredOn": "1977-09-16",
    "removedOn": null,
    "latestIncome": 3290877,
    "latestExpenditure": 3207172,
    "financialYearEnd": "2025-07-31",
    "reportingStatus": "Submission Received",
    "address": "Pennine Camphill Community, Camphill Wakefield, Wood Lane, Chapelthorpe, Wakefield",
    "postcode": null,
    "phone": "01924255281",
    "email": "info@camphill.ac.uk",
    "website": "https://www.camphill.ac.uk",
    "companyNumber": "01294923",
    "activitiesDescription": "Day and Residential college for students with learning difficulties and disabilities.",
    "insolvent": false,
    "inAdministration": false,
    "causes": ["Education/training", "Health or saving of lives", "Disability", "Animals", "Economic/community development/employment"],
    "beneficiaries": ["Children/young people", "People with disabilities", "The general public/mankind"],
    "howItHelps": ["Provides buildings/facilities/open space", "Provides services"],
    "areasOfOperation": ["Barnsley", "Doncaster", "Bradford City", "Calderdale", "Kirklees", "Leeds City", "City Of Wakefield", "North Yorkshire", "Staffordshire", "Essex"],
    "registerUrl": "https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/274192",
    "extractDate": "2026-10-24",
    "source": "Charity Commission for England and Wales register extract, Open Government Licence v3.0"
}

Pricing

$0.002 per charity returned, plus $0.005 per run. 1,000 charities cost $2.005.

Each run downloads and scans the full daily register (about 400,000 records), which takes 15–30 seconds; the start fee covers that.

Good to know

• Data is as of the Commission's latest daily extract (extractDate). Income and spending are from the latest annual return the charity filed.
• Contact details are what the charity published on the register. Many small charities don't publish an email.
• Trustee names are deliberately left out.
• Scottish (OSCR) and Northern Irish charities are separate registers and are not included.

Use it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor (MCP)

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https://mcp.apify.com?tools=onibaku/uk-charity-register

Data source and licence

Charity Commission for England and Wales register of charities data extract, under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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