# New database unites public information on charities in England & Wales

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/07/02/new-database-unites-public-information-charities-england-wales/
- Published: 2018-07-02T07:49:23+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A free, open source charity data portal, CharityBase, has launched, providing 
public information on the activities, locations and finances of the 168,000 charities
registered in England and Wales.**

A database, API and web platform, [CharityBase](https://charitybase.uk/) is an aggregation
of Charity Commission data services and other sources including names, locations,
causes, trustees, and size for all charities in England and Wales. Users can search
and filter the database and browse the results online or download them for analysis.

Key points:

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 * CharityBase provides information on the activities, locations, finances, trustees&
   beneficiaries of 168,000 charities registered in England & Wales.
 * It is an aggregation of the Charity Commission’s four online services, supplemented
   with geographical and grants data from other sources.
 * Researchers can use the web platform to search, filter and download the database.
 * For web developers there is also an API that makes it easy to pull information
   from CharityBase into their own websites.
 * Donors, grantmakers and philanthropists can also use the web platform to look
   up charities and carry out due diligence.
 * The project is entirely open source: [https://github.com/charity-base](https://github.com/charity-base)
 * The next steps are to add more countries and build in functionality for charities
   to update their records online.

Creator Dan Kwiatkowski, who is a freelance data scientist and fellow of [Newspeak House](https://nwspk.com/),
said:

> “I created CharityBase after realising there’s a lot of useful public data on 
> charities out there but it’s not easily accessible.  The official data services
> are fragmented and I had many conversations with researchers, app developers and
> donors who were all struggling to piece the information together.  Rather than
> everyone hacking their own solutions independently I want us to work together 
> on a comprehensive service that makes the data accessible to everyone.”

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