CharityBase

What is CharityBase?

CharityBase is a database, API and web app which provides public information on the activities, locations and finances of the 168,000 charities registered in England and Wales. It's free and open source!

The Charity Commission for England and Wales have four online services for accessing their data but none of them are comprehensive: original website, beta website, file downloads & SOAP API.

CharityBase is an unofficial project to clean up, aggregate and supplement the data they publish and make it accessible to every kind of user.

Who uses CharityBase?

Developers and service designers use the API to help build services for and about charities.

Researchers at universities and non-profits use the raw data to analyse the charity sector.

Donors, grantmakers and philanthropists use the web platform to look up charities and carry out due diligence.

Can I Download the Data?

Yes, you can download the entire results from any query to CSV or JSON. Search charities to get started.

What About Other Countries?

We plan to add Scottish and Northern Irish charities to the register soon but don't have a set deadline. Get in touch if you'd like to see these or any other countries in our database: support@charitybase.uk

Who's behind it?

All the CharityBase code is open source at github.com/charity-base and continuously improving thanks to a growing community of charity data enthusiasts.

It was initiated in 2016 by Dan Kwiatkowski - a freelance data scientist and fellow of Newspeak House.

Acknowledgements

The development of CharityBase is made possible thanks to the support of many people and organisations. In particular:

Newspeak House and Space4 for providing physical space and for fostering communities of practice in the intersection of charity and technology.
360 Giving for defining a data standard to describe grants and encouraging funders to publish what they fund.
The Charity Commission for making their data available.
David Kane for useful conversations around charity data.

Contact

If you encounter any problems or have a feature request, please add an issue.

For any other feedback or questions please email or find us on twitter:

support@charitybase.uk
https://twitter.com/charitybase_uk

Licence

The bulk of the database comes from Charity Commission data files shared under an Open Government Licence.

The grant funding data comes from GrantNav, a 360Giving application released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike licence (CC-BY-SA). Here's copyright and attribution information for the original datasets.