# GuideStar UK starts to publish online

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/03/07/guidestar-uk-starts-publish-online/
- Published: 2004-03-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**GuideStar UK, the charity that has been set up to provide detailed information
online about UK charities, has started to publish updates on its progress.**

The original holding page has been replaced by a site which contains information
about the organisation, how it plans to create an online database of UK charities
and its timetable to launch.

Established by the Institute for Philanthropy, GuideStar UK will launch in a series
of phases from early 2005. the first phas will cover the 160,000 registered charities
in England and Wales. It will then extend coverage to charities in Scotland and 
Northern Ireland and to “excepted” and “exempt” charities in England and Wales.

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One year ago this month GuideStar UK was awarded a grant of £2.9m over 3 years from
the Treasury’s Invest to Save Budget. This funding was designed to “cover part of
the development and implementation stages of GuideStar UK.”

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