{
 "counts": {
  "charities": 422311,
  "charities_active": 205242,
  "charities_removed": 217069,
  "documents": 487679,
  "document_pages": 8411856,
  "document_words": 1620064911,
  "websites": 87105,
  "website_pages": 805586,
  "website_words": 655966175,
  "trustees": 879014
 },
 "counts_refreshed_at": "2026-10-22T18:02:06+00:00",
 "sources": [
  {
   "source": "ew_register",
   "label": "Charity Commission for England and Wales register extract: charities, financial history, trustees, classifications, areas of operation and other names",
   "cadence": "Re-imported from the Commission's bulk extract by the data pipeline",
   "last_success_at": null
  },
  {
   "source": "sc_register",
   "label": "OSCR register downloads (current and former charities) and the OSCR API",
   "cadence": "Re-imported from OSCR's downloads by the data pipeline",
   "last_success_at": null
  },
  {
   "source": "ni_register",
   "label": "CCNI register download, and trustee names from CCNI's website",
   "cadence": "Re-imported from CCNI's download by the data pipeline",
   "last_success_at": null
  },
  {
   "source": "documents",
   "label": "Filed accounts and reports: the PDFs and their extracted text",
   "cadence": "Collected in the background from the regulators' online registers",
   "last_success_at": "2026-10-01T11:28:40+00:00"
  },
  {
   "source": "websites",
   "label": "Charity websites, crawled from the website each register lists",
   "cadence": "Crawled in the background, a charity at a time",
   "last_success_at": "2026-06-28T18:47:57+00:00"
  },
  {
   "source": "site_stats",
   "label": "Counts, income bands and legal forms",
   "cadence": "Hourly",
   "last_success_at": "2026-10-22T18:02:06+00:00"
  }
 ],
 "not_held": [
  "Charities that are not on a register: exempt and excepted charities, and those below the registration threshold.",
  "Trustee names for Scotland: OSCR does not publish them.",
  "Trustees' addresses, dates of birth and other personal details.",
  "Northern Ireland financial history before the latest year (only that year and the previous year's income are published).",
  "Regulators' inquiries, warnings and serious incident reports.",
  "Grants a charity made or received, beyond what its own filed accounts say."
 ],
 "coverage_notes": [
  "Counts are of main charity records: EW subsidiaries (linked charities) share their parent's number and are not counted separately.",
  "Active means no removal date. NI charities marked \"Removed\" on the register usually have no removal date, so they are counted as active here.",
  "Income, assets and employees are totals of each active charity's latest financial year as reported to its regulator; the years differ from charity to charity.",
  "Trustees are EW and NI only (OSCR does not publish them), counted by distinct trustee id among active charities.",
  "The income distribution and legal forms count every main record with a value, including removed charities.",
  "Figures are rebuilt hourly from the imported registers, which themselves lag the regulators' live registers.",
  "Data a regulator does not publish is \"not published\", never none or zero.",
  "For counts of charities matching filters, use search_charities (its counts stop at 1,000)."
 ],
 "regulators": [
  {
   "country": "ew",
   "country_name": "England & Wales",
   "name": "Charity Commission for England and Wales",
   "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission"
  },
  {
   "country": "sc",
   "country_name": "Scotland",
   "name": "Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)",
   "url": "https://www.oscr.org.uk/"
  },
  {
   "country": "ni",
   "country_name": "Northern Ireland",
   "name": "Charity Commission for Northern Ireland",
   "url": "https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/"
  }
 ],
 "coverage": [
  {
   "topic": "Register details and status",
   "ew": "Yes",
   "sc": "Yes (current and former registers)",
   "ni": "Yes"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Removed charities",
   "ew": "date_removed set",
   "sc": "date_removed set (former register)",
   "ni": "Register status \"Removed\"; usually no removal date"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Annual return filing",
   "ew": "reporting_status (Submission Received / Received Late / Overdue / Double Default, New, or Suppressed: no verdict); each year's due date and when the return and accounts arrived",
   "sc": "Register status (\"Active\", \"Not Submitted\" when overdue, or \"Not Monitored\": no verdict); each year's received date, against OSCR's 9-month deadline (extensions not shown)",
   "ni": "reporting_status: \"Received: on time\", \"Received: 30 days late\" or \"Overdue\" (with the due date; CCNI's stale day count is dropped); no per-year dates"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Regulatory flags",
   "ew": "Insolvency, administration, CIO dissolution notice, Gift Aid",
   "sc": "Regulatory type (e.g. Cross Border), designated religious body, register notes",
   "ni": null
  },
  {
   "topic": "Financial history",
   "ew": "Several years from annual returns; income/spending breakdown, assets and funds only where filed (larger charities)",
   "sc": "Up to five years of income and spending, with breakdown; no assets",
   "ni": "Latest year only (income, spending, assets), plus the previous year's income"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Trustees",
   "ew": "Names, chair, appointment dates, person or organisation",
   "sc": null,
   "ni": "Names only"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Classifications (what / who / how)",
   "ew": "The Charity Commission's coded classifications (classifications)",
   "sc": "OSCR's own purposes, beneficiaries and activities categories (in activities; no codes)",
   "ni": "CCNI's own what it does / who it helps / how it works categories (in activities; no codes)"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Areas of operation",
   "ew": "Countries, regions and local authorities",
   "sc": "Geographical spread, main operating location",
   "ni": null
  },
  {
   "topic": "Other names",
   "ew": "Previous and working names (other_names)",
   "sc": "One \"known as\" name only (known_as)",
   "ni": "One \"other name\" only (known_as)"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Objects and activities",
   "ew": "Charitable objects, area of benefit, activities",
   "sc": "Purposes, objectives, beneficiaries, activities",
   "ni": "Charitable purposes; what it does, who it helps, how it works"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Staff and volunteers",
   "ew": "Employees per financial year",
   "sc": "Staff numbers; volunteers as a range",
   "ni": "Staff and volunteer counts"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Filed documents (PDF + extracted text)",
   "ew": "Accounts: the periods the online register shows (up to 5), active charities",
   "sc": "Accounts",
   "ni": "Accounts, trustees' annual reports, annual returns"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Website text",
   "ew": "Crawled from the listed website",
   "sc": "Crawled from the listed website",
   "ni": "Crawled from the listed website"
  },
  {
   "topic": "Location",
   "ew": "Registered postcode centroid",
   "sc": "Registered postcode centroid",
   "ni": "Registered postcode centroid"
  }
 ],
 "by_country": [
  {
   "country": "ew",
   "country_name": "England & Wales",
   "regulator": "Charity Commission for England and Wales",
   "active": 171888,
   "removed": 186383,
   "total": 358271
  },
  {
   "country": "sc",
   "country_name": "Scotland",
   "regulator": "Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)",
   "active": 24978,
   "removed": 30686,
   "total": 55664
  },
  {
   "country": "ni",
   "country_name": "Northern Ireland",
   "regulator": "Charity Commission for Northern Ireland",
   "active": 8376,
   "removed": 0,
   "total": 8376
  }
 ],
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  "income": 147611832880,
  "assets": 270779241401,
  "employees": 2291469
 },
 "income_histogram": [
  {
   "label": "Under £1,000",
   "min": 0,
   "max": 1000,
   "count": 75104
  },
  {
   "label": "£1,000 to under £5,000",
   "min": 1000,
   "max": 5000,
   "count": 41229
  },
  {
   "label": "£5,000 to under £10,000",
   "min": 5000,
   "max": 10000,
   "count": 26727
  },
  {
   "label": "£10,000 to under £25,000",
   "min": 10000,
   "max": 25000,
   "count": 39437
  },
  {
   "label": "£25,000 to under £50,000",
   "min": 25000,
   "max": 50000,
   "count": 26120
  },
  {
   "label": "£50,000 to under £100,000",
   "min": 50000,
   "max": 100000,
   "count": 24503
  },
  {
   "label": "£100,000 to under £250,000",
   "min": 100000,
   "max": 250000,
   "count": 28164
  },
  {
   "label": "£250,000 to under £500,000",
   "min": 250000,
   "max": 500000,
   "count": 13563
  },
  {
   "label": "£500,000 to under £1,000,000",
   "min": 500000,
   "max": 1000000,
   "count": 8237
  },
  {
   "label": "£1,000,000 to under £5,000,000",
   "min": 1000000,
   "max": 5000000,
   "count": 8590
  },
  {
   "label": "£5,000,000 to under £10,000,000",
   "min": 5000000,
   "max": 10000000,
   "count": 1714
  },
  {
   "label": "£10,000,000 to under £100,000,000",
   "min": 10000000,
   "max": 100000000,
   "count": 2283
  },
  {
   "label": "£100,000,000 or more",
   "min": 100000000,
   "max": null,
   "count": 195
  }
 ],
 "legal_forms": [
  {
   "value": "Other",
   "count": 120248
  },
  {
   "value": "CIO",
   "count": 45208
  },
  {
   "value": "Charitable company",
   "count": 44495
  },
  {
   "value": "Trust",
   "count": 30235
  },
  {
   "value": "Unincorporated association",
   "count": 17819
  },
  {
   "value": "SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)",
   "count": 8855
  },
  {
   "value": "Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)",
   "count": 7127
  },
  {
   "value": "Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)",
   "count": 5740
  },
  {
   "value": "Previously excepted",
   "count": 3496
  },
  {
   "value": "CIO (Charitable Incorporated Organisation, E&W)",
   "count": 249
  },
  {
   "value": "Statutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)",
   "count": 242
  },
  {
   "value": "Registered Society",
   "count": 238
  },
  {
   "value": "Educational endowment",
   "count": 187
  },
  {
   "value": "Community Benefit Society",
   "count": 31
  },
  {
   "value": "Industrial and Provident",
   "count": 1
  }
 ],
 "today": "2026-10-23",
 "licence": null,
 "licence_url": null,
 "attribution": "Register data from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland: check each regulator's terms before republishing. Filed documents and website pages are the charities' own material."
}