Version 8 of UK Info published

Howard Lake | 24 October 2002 | News

ICD Publishing has released the latest version of its powerful CD-ROM people and business finder.

UK Info version 8 lists over 60 million records compiled from three main databases, the Electoral Roll of 44 million people, 17 million residential and business telephone listings and company information totaling over 2 million records.

It can help locate contact details for individuals where you have incomplete information. For example, you can search using simply a surname, even without an address. In its general search mode it will produce up to 2,000 results per search, with 200 records displayed at a time.

The product could prove useful in confirming individual and corporate donors’ and prospects’ contact details.

PC Format magazine called the CD “the most powerful people finder known to man” – and presumably woman too. The basic version costs £49.95 (or £44.95 at Amazon.co.uk), but there is a more powerful Pro version for £199.95 (or £179.55 from Amazon.co.uk. This offers even more remarkable search facilities including reverse search, relationship search and neighbour search. For example, you can find everyone who lives in a particular postcode, every plumber in Newcastle, everyone who lives in every Station Road, and all John Smiths in the country.

Powerful stuff, and of course using such a tool has ethical implications for fundraising researchers, or at least it should do. The data is of course publicly available, but offering such a powerful and easy-to-use tool does of course invite misuse. Publishers ICD, the company behind directory site 192.com, publish a warning against using their data for illegal purposes, promising to “inform relevant bodies of any such known breaches.”

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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.