Postcode Address File to be free for small charities
Howard Lake | 17 June 2013 | News
From July this year small charities will no longer have to pay to use the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File, the tool that helps organisations standardise, update and manage address data.
Royal Mail is simplying access to and pricing of the Postcode Address File (PAF) , in collaboration with the Government, to encourage innovation and growth. The company, which introduced the postcode to every UK address nearly 40 years ago to help it deliver mail, recognises that it is now used in a diverse range of ways by users and third parties. It now contains over 28 million addresses.
Small businesses too can now receive one year's free access to PAF. Members of the public can now enjoy greater access to the tool, with their daily limit of free searches on the Royal Mail website increased from 15 to 50.
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Free access
To qualify for the new free rate organisations must be:
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registered charities or CICs
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have an annual income of less than £10 million
- be independent in the sense of not being associated or affiliated with any existing PAF solutions provider
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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.