Registered Charities in England and Wales from the Official Public Registry

England and Wales are covered by this official register of organisations recognised as charitable in law. The dataset is maintained by the Government Digital Service and includes entities that hold most assets, have a majority of trustees resident, or are incorporated in England or Wales. It is published under the UK Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution and scale of charitable assets based on the registry's asset location criteria.
• Mapping trustee networks and governance structures based on the trustees' residency requirement.
• Studying the legal incorporation landscape of charitable companies based on the incorporation criteria.
• Building transparency dashboards for public oversight of registered charitable organisations.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative statutory register maintained by the Charity Commission.
• The legal definition for inclusion is explicitly stated, covering assets, trustee residency, and incorporation.
• Published under the permissive Open Government Licence, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Official public registry compilation.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

England and Wales