🇬🇧 UK Charity Register Scraper

🚀 🇬🇧 Lookup UK registered charities by registration number. Pull 200,000+ UK charities worth of data with 18 fields per record. No API key, no manual data entry.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05 · 📊 18 fields per record · 🌍 United Kingdom · 💵 from $0.010 per item (FREE tier)

The UK Charity Register Scraper Lookup UK registered charities by registration number across the three UK charity regulators (CCEW, OSCR, CCNI). Returns charity number, all alternate names, active status, registration date, latest reported income, company number, parent charity link, geo, domain, and direct links to the official register pages.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Sales teams, compliance officers, researchers, journalists, real-estate analysts, healthcare ops	Grant-making intelligence, Non-profit M&A & merger advisory, Donor analytics, Investigative journalism

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📋 What the UK Charity Register Scraper does

Highlights of every record returned:

• 🏢 Charity identity. Registered name + every alternate/known-as variant.
• ✅ Status. Active flag, registration date, removal date (when applicable).
• 💷 Financial. Latest reported income.
• 🔗 Cross-references. CCEW, OSCR, CCNI numbers and links.
• 🌐 Web. Charity URL and primary domain.
• 📍 Geo. Latitude, longitude, postcode.

💡 Why it matters: verified, structured data delivered in seconds beats hand-curated spreadsheets that go stale within days. Run this Actor on a schedule and your downstream pipeline always has fresh records.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded UK Charity Register Scraper dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
charityNumbers	array of strings	required	UK charity registration numbers (CCEW, OSCR with `SC` prefix, or CCNI).
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free: max 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.

Example input:

{
    "charityNumbers": ["220949", "1110447", "1062157"],
    "maxItems": 50
}

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📊 Output

Each record contains 18 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Top fields

• charityNumber
• registeredName
• alternateNames
• active
• dateRegistered
• latestIncome
• companyNumber
• url
• ccewLink

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🛠️ No infrastructure to maintain. The Apify cloud handles scheduling, retries, proxies, and storage.
• 🌍 Verified source data. Records come from authoritative public sources, not third-party aggregators.
• 🔁 Repeatable runs. Schedule monthly, weekly, or hourly to keep your pipeline always fresh.
• 📊 Multiple export formats. CSV, Excel, JSON, XML out of the box.
• 💵 Pay only for what you use. Pay-per-result-item pricing, free preview included.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Grant-making intelligence

Score charity applicants against verified registration status and income brackets before disbursing funds.

💼 Non-profit M&A & merger advisory

Build target lists of small UK charities by income range and date of registration.

🤝 Donor analytics

Enrich donor-platform databases with verified charity status to surface fraud and inactive registrations.

🔍 Investigative journalism

Trace corporate-charity relationships through company-number cross-references.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ UK Charity Register Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account on Apify (includes $5 in free credit).
2. Open the UK Charity Register Scraper Actor page.
3. Fill out the input form and click Start.
4. Download your dataset in CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Research and academia

Sociologists studying the UK third sector can build datasets segmented by income, geography, and registration era.

🎨 Personal and creative

Family historians can trace charitable-foundation lineages connected to the company-number registry.

🤝 Non-profit and civic

Charity transparency groups can monitor large income changes and unusual cross-registrations.

🧪 Experimentation

Data engineers can use the alternate-name lists as a real-world entity-resolution benchmark for organization names.

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• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
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• 🅒 Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the data come from?

From findthatcharity.uk, an open data project that aggregates the three UK charity regulators (CCEW for England & Wales, OSCR for Scotland, CCNI for Northern Ireland) into a single API.

How do I lookup OSCR (Scottish) charities?

Use the OSCR number with the SC prefix, e.g., SC037738.

What about Northern Ireland?

CCNI numbers are accepted directly (e.g., NIC100001).

Is trustee data included?

No. Only the registry summary (names, status, income, links). Trustee details are on the regulator's own site, accessible via the ccewLink/oscrLink/ccniLink fields.

How often is the data refreshed?

findthatcharity.uk syncs from the regulators weekly. Records may be up to 7 days old.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Connect this Actor to your stack via the Apify integrations catalog:

• 📊 Make / Zapier / n8n - trigger scrapes from any business workflow.
• 💬 Slack / Discord - get a notification when a run finishes.
• 📁 Google Drive / Google Sheets - push the dataset directly into a spreadsheet.
• 📨 Gmail / Mailchimp / HubSpot - automate outreach with the scraped leads.
• 🔌 Apify CLI / SDK - programmatic control from Python, Node.js, or any HTTP client.
• ⚡ Webhooks - POST run results to any endpoint when complete.

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Disclaimer: This Actor scrapes only publicly accessible data. We do not collect personal information beyond what is voluntarily published by the source. Do not use the data for unauthorized contact, spam, or any purpose violating applicable laws or the source site's Terms of Service. Respect GDPR, CCPA, and applicable consumer-protection laws. ParseForge is not affiliated with any source site.

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