UK Charity Register (Charity Commission) — Charities, Income & Trustees

Search every charity on the Register of Charities for England and Wales: about 186,000 registered charities, plus 213,000 removed ones if you want them. Filter by name, postcode area, income band, cause, who they help, how they work, where they operate, registration date and contact details, and get back clean rows with income, spending, email, phone, website, address, company number, trustees and the register link.

The data is the Charity Commission's own official register, from the daily data extract it publishes under the Open Government Licence. No API key, no subscription, no scraping: the run reads the same nightly file the Commission publishes for reuse.

Pay only for results: $2.00 per 1,000 charities.

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Who uses it

• Fundraising and grant consultants, bid writers: charities in your area with income between £100k and £1m, with an email address.
• Suppliers to the sector (software, insurance, auditors, printers, training): target lists by size, cause and region.
• Grant seekers: grant-making charities (How: Makes Grants To Organisations) that operate in your county, sorted by income.
• Researchers and journalists: sector snapshots, new registrations, charities in administration.
• Due diligence: check status, income, filing status and trustees for a list of charity numbers.

Filters

Filter	Example
Name contains (any of)	hospice, food bank
Postcode areas	LS (all of Leeds), M1, SW1A, LS1 4. LS1 does not match LS10.
Minimum / maximum latest income (£)	100000 to 1000000
Charity numbers	202918
What they do	Animals, Education/training, Disability, Poverty, Arts/culture... (17 causes)
Who they help	Children/young people, Elderly, People with disabilities... (7 groups)
How they work	Makes grants to organisations, Provides services, Advocacy/advice... (10 ways)
Area of operation contains	Leeds, Kent, Kenya
Activities contain	words from the charity's own description of what it does
Registration status	Registered (default), Removed, or both
Charity types	CIO, Charitable company, Trust, Other, Previously excepted
Registered on or after / before	2026-01-01, or 90 days for new charities
Only with email / website / phone	drop rows with no way to contact them
Include linked charities	subsidiary charities that share a main charity's number

Extras you can add to each row:

• Add trustees: trustee names, trustee count and chair.
• Add causes, beneficiaries and areas: the What / Who / How classifications and areas of operation.

Sort by charity number (fastest), income (highest or lowest first) or registration date. Sorted runs read the whole register and return the top Maximum results.

Example input

Leeds charities with income over £1m and an email address, biggest first, with trustees:

{
  "postcodePrefixes": ["LS"],
  "minIncome": 1000000,
  "requireEmail": true,
  "sortBy": "incomeHighFirst",
  "includeTrustees": true,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Grant-making charities working in Yorkshire:

{
  "howTheyWork": ["302"],
  "areasOfOperation": ["Leeds", "Bradford", "Wakefield", "Kirklees", "Calderdale", "York"],
  "includeClassifications": true,
  "maxItems": 500
}

Output

One row per charity. Download it as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, or read it through the API.

{
  "charityNumber": 1120102,
  "organisationNumber": 4033379,
  "charityName": "LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY",
  "registrationStatus": "Registered",
  "registeredOn": "2007-07-17",
  "charityType": "Charitable company",
  "companyNumber": "06305220",
  "address": "Leeds Trinity University, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, LEEDS",
  "postcode": "LS18 5HD",
  "phone": "01134673940",
  "email": "hello@leedstrinity.ac.uk",
  "website": "https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk",
  "latestIncome": 61642196,
  "latestExpenditure": 74077929,
  "financialPeriodEnd": "2025-07-31",
  "reportingStatus": "Submission Received",
  "giftAid": false,
  "trusteeCount": 19,
  "trustees": "(names, separated by '; ')",
  "registerUrl": "https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/4033379",
  "extractDate": "2026-10-22"
}

(From the 22 Oct 2026 register; your run returns the register as it is that day.)

Every row also carries the organisation and linked-charity numbers, removal date, CIO flag, financial period start, land ownership, insolvency and administration flags, the charity's own activities text, and, when you ask for them, the classifications and areas of operation.

The OUTPUT record in the key-value store gives the query, rows delivered, rows scanned, total matches and why the run stopped.

Pricing

Event	Price
Charity returned	$0.002 ($2.00 per 1,000)
Actor start	Apify's minimum ($0.00005 per run)

You are charged only for charities delivered to your dataset, never past Maximum results or your run's spending limit.

Good to know

• Covers England and Wales. Scotland (OSCR) and Northern Ireland (CCNI) keep separate registers.
• Data is the Commission's nightly extract, so it is at most a day old. extractDate on each row says which day.
• Contact details are what charities publish on the register. Many small charities list none: use the Only with email filter for outreach lists.
• Income is the latest figure the charity has filed; it can be a year or more old. financialPeriodEnd says which year.
• If you use the data for marketing, UK GDPR and PECR apply. Charity contact details are usually organisational, but trustee names are personal data.
• Contains public sector information from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This actor is independent and not endorsed by the Charity Commission.

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