Is Charity Commission data free?

Yes. The Charity Commission for England & Wales publishes its register extract under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — free to use, including commercially, and free to redistribute, with attribution. No API key or login is required.

Does it include charity contact details?

Yes. The register includes email, phone and website for charities that publish them, straight from the Charity Commission — useful for outreach and lead lists. Around 170,000 charities are covered.

Does it include trustees?

Yes, on demand. Trustee names, chair flag, person/organisation type and appointment date are available as an opt-in enrichment.

What financials are included?

Headline income and expenditure are always included; the opt-in financials add income by source, expenditure, assets, reserves, funds and employee count from the latest annual return.

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How to get UK charity data: contact, trustees & financials

UK charities in England & Wales are registered at the Charity Commission. Here's how to pull a charity's identity, status, contact details (email, phone, website), latest income & expenditure, trustees and full annual financials as clean JSON — for outreach, fundraising and sector research.

Charity number is the key

Every registered charity has a charity number from the Charity Commission — the reliable key for matching. The register of England & Wales holds around 170,000 registered charities, the whole population.

What data can you get?

Identity & status — charity name, number, registration status, activities and area of operation.
Contact details — email, phone and website straight from the register (great for outreach / lead lists).
Trustees (opt-in) — names, chair flag, person/organisation type, appointment date.
Financials (opt-in) — income by source, expenditure, assets, reserves, funds, employee count; headline income & expenditure always included.

The easy way (by name, number or filter)

The Charity Commission publishes data files, but you have to download and join them yourself. Instead, the UK Charity Data scraper on Apify takes a name, charity number or filter and returns a structured profile — no setup, exportable to JSON / CSV / Excel. It reads the register's daily data files directly.

Use cases: nonprofit outreach & fundraising lists, grant-maker & philanthropy research, sector benchmarking, trustee mapping, and CRM enrichment on UK charities.

Open the UK Charity Data scraper →

Is it legal?

It reads the Charity Commission's official register extract, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — free for commercial reuse and redistribution, with attribution. Verify your use complies with the OGL and applicable UK privacy law (UK GDPR); trustee names are personal data.