About OpenCharitiesWhat is it? A quick and simple project to open up the information on the UK's Register of Charities, and make it available to the community in a variety of forms. It's built by the people behind OpenlyLocal.com, a project to open up local government data and other local public sector informationIs the data accurate? Up-to-date? We think it's fairly accurate, although screen-scraping websites (particularly one apparently designed to be difficult to scrape) is not an exact science. This is why it is better to make the raw data available. On every charity page there is now a button to update the information from the Charity Register. If you notice the information is out of date, please click on this and it will be updated automatically from the RegisterOpen CharitiesOC2_6e01a086-3b8e-11e9-8b40-707e9707c78cOpenCorporates LtdWho's behind this project? OpenCharities is published by OpenCorporates Ltd, a company limited by shares and registered in England under company number 07444723._6e01a14e-3b8e-11e9-8b40-707e9707c78cTo open up the information on the UK's Register of Charities_6e01a1f8-3b8e-11e9-8b40-707e9707c78cInformationProvide the basic information in a clear, accessible way_6e01a2a2-3b8e-11e9-8b40-707e9707c78c1UK Charity CommissionWhy don't you just ask the Charity Commission for the data? Don't they have to publish it under the new 'right to data'? That's been tried quite recently, using the government's data unlocking service. Unfortunately, they seem to believe that they are the only people who should have full access to the register. Update: we're now in dialogue with the Charity Commission and hope to resolve this.UK CharitiesYou say that you're opening up UK Charities, but there's only data from the Register for England & Wales? Why is this?EnglandWalesScotlandWe're hoping to eventually include Scotland and Northern Ireland too, but haven't done it yet. If anyone's got any good contacts there, please let us know.Northern IrelandDoesn't the Charities Commission website have this information? Yes. In fact it's got a lot more information on its website than we have here, and so for very detailed information about a charity, head over there (there's links to the correct Charity Commission page on every page). This project aims to provide the basic information (name, charity number, contact details, aims and most recent accounts info) in a clear, accessible way, and to provide it as data in a way that can be reused by the community for mashups, analysis, and in other websites_6e01a342-3b8e-11e9-8b40-707e9707c78cSpendingMatch up spending from councils to the recipients, which include charities_6e01a3f6-3b8e-11e9-8b40-707e9707c78c2OpenlyLocalWhy are you doing this? In short, we needed the information on OpenlyLocal. Specifically we needed to match up spending from councils to the recipients, which include charities. We therefore 'screen-scraped' the information from the Charity Commission website, and imported it into a database. As there were other groups who also wanted access to the data, we decided to make it available as open data._6e01a4aa-3b8e-11e9-8b40-707e9707c78c2019-02-28http://opencharities.org/info/aboutOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net