# UK Charity Commission Leads Scraper (Charities & Trustees) (`scrapesage/uk-charity-commission-leads`) Actor

Scrape the official UK Charity Commission register (England & Wales): every registered charity with name, type, latest income & expenditure, phone, email, website, address, company number, activities & trustees + lead score. Filter by income, region, type & cause. Keyless. Monitor mode.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapesage/uk-charity-commission-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrape Sage](https://apify.com/scrapesage) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 charity lead records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## UK Charity Commission Leads Scraper — Charities, Income, Contacts & Trustees

Turn the **official UK Charity Commission register (England & Wales)** into a clean, contact-bearing B2B lead list. This actor reads the Commission's public bulk register extract and ships **every registered charity** with **name, charity number, type, latest annual income & expenditure, contact phone, email & website, full address, Companies House number, activities, trustees and classification** — plus an income band, a 0–100 lead score and a direct register link.

No API key, no login, no browser — straight from the official keyless data download.

### Why this Charity Commission scraper?

Most "charity" tools are thin search wrappers that need an API key and return a handful of fields. This actor reads the **complete official bulk register** and ships the **richest charity dataset in the category** — the whole register of ~170,000 active charities, filterable by income, region, type and cause, with the fields that actually drive outreach:

| Data | Thin search scrapers | This actor |
|---|---|---|
| Every registered charity in England & Wales | ❌ (per-query) | ✅ full register |
| Latest income & expenditure + income band | partial | ✅ ~99% |
| Contact phone | ❌ | ✅ ~100% |
| Contact email | ❌ | ✅ ~86% |
| Website | ❌ | ✅ ~74% |
| Full address & postcode | partial | ✅ ~98% |
| Companies House number (link to company) | ❌ | ✅ where applicable |
| Activities / "what the charity does" text | ❌ | ✅ ~99% |
| Trustees (names, chair) | ❌ | ✅ opt-in |
| Classification (what / how / who) | ❌ | ✅ opt-in |
| CIO / Gift-Aid / insolvency flags | ❌ | ✅ |
| Lead score (0–100) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Filter by income band & region | ❌ | ✅ |
| Monitoring (only new / changed) | ❌ | ✅ |

### Use cases

- **B2B lead generation** — charities buy fundraising platforms, CRMs, payroll, insurance, audit & accountancy, IT, print and consultancy. Target them by **income band** and **region** and reach them with phone/email/website.
- **Fundraising & grant prospecting** — find charities by cause (`activitiesKeyword`), size (`minIncome`) and location, and approach the right trustees.
- **Accountancy & audit firms** — charities over income thresholds need independent examination or audit; filter by `minIncome` and region to build a prospect list.
- **Market & sector research** — analyze the charity sector by income band, type (CIO vs charitable company vs trust), geography and activity.
- **Due diligence & enrichment** — match charities to their Companies House company, check insolvency/administration flags, and pull trustees.
- **Fresh-lead monitoring** — schedule the actor with `monitorMode` to capture newly-registered charities and new financial filings as they appear.

### How to use

1. [Sign up for Apify](https://console.apify.com/sign-up) — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the **UK Charity Commission Leads Scraper**, set your filters (income, region, type, cause), and click **Start**.
3. Watch results stream into the dataset table.
4. **Export** as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2).

### Input

```json
{
    "minIncome": 100000,
    "postcodePrefixes": ["SW", "EC", "WC"],
    "activitiesKeyword": "education",
    "withEmailOnly": true,
    "sortBy": "incomeHigh",
    "maxResults": 1000,
    "includeTrustees": true
}
```

- **statuses** *(default `["Registered"]`)* — registration statuses to keep; add `"Removed"` for historical charities.
- **mainCharitiesOnly** *(default true)* — drop linked subsidiary records.
- **minIncome / maxIncome** — filter by latest reported annual income (GBP).
- **incomeBands** — `"Under £10k"`, `"£10k–£100k"`, `"£100k–£500k"`, `"£500k–£1M"`, `"£1M–£10M"`, `"Over £10M"`.
- **charityTypes** — e.g. `["Charitable company", "CIO", "Trust"]`.
- **postcodePrefixes / addressContains** — target a region or town.
- **nameQuery / activitiesKeyword** — target by name or cause (`"homeless"`, `"mental health"`, `"animal"`).
- **withEmailOnly / withPhoneOnly / withWebsiteOnly** — contact filters.
- **registeredCompaniesOnly / cioOnly / giftAidOnly** — structure filters.
- **registeredAfter / registeredBefore** — newly-registered charities as fresh leads.
- **includeTrustees / includeClassification** *(default false)* — attach trustees and what/how/who classification (downloads an extra register table).
- **sortBy / maxResults / minLeadScore** — ranking & limits.
- **monitorMode / monitorKey** — return only new / changed charities since the last run with the same key.

### Output

One record per charity (`recordType: "charity"`):

```json
{
    "recordType": "charity",
    "charityNumber": 1004145,
    "organisationNumber": "5054337",
    "charityName": "National Numeracy",
    "charityType": "Charitable company",
    "registrationStatus": "Registered",
    "isActive": true,
    "dateOfRegistration": "1996-04-15",
    "latestIncome": 2175513,
    "latestExpenditure": 1980004,
    "incomeBand": "£1M–£10M",
    "latestFinancialPeriodEnd": "2025-03-31",
    "phone": "01273915044",
    "email": "enquiries@nationalnumeracy.org.uk",
    "website": "https://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk",
    "addressLines": ["12 Old Steine"],
    "postcode": "BN1 1EJ",
    "postcodeArea": "BN",
    "fullAddress": "12 Old Steine, BN1 1EJ",
    "companyNumber": "03240898",
    "isCharitableCompany": true,
    "isCIO": false,
    "giftAidRegistered": true,
    "activities": "Education and research…",
    "trustees": [{ "name": "Jane Smith", "isChair": true, "type": "Individual", "appointed": "2019-09-01" }],
    "trusteeCount": 9,
    "registerUrl": "https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5054337",
    "leadScore": 88,
    "leadSignals": ["Email on file", "Phone on file", "Website on file", "Large charity (£2,175,513 income)", "Registered company"],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-22T00:00:00.000Z"
}
```

#### What to expect (field coverage)

Across registered, actively-reporting charities you can typically expect: **phone ~100%, income ~99%, activities ~99%, postcode ~98%, email ~86%, website ~74%**. Smaller, dormant or very old charities publish less. Fields are empty only when the Commission doesn't publish them — never because the scraper skipped them. With `includeRawFields` the original register row is attached under `sourceFields`.

### Automate & schedule

- **[Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2)** — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
- **[apify-client for JavaScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/)** and **[apify-client for Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/)** — official SDKs.
- **[Schedules](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules)** — run it monthly (the register refreshes monthly) with `monitorMode` to capture new charities and fresh financial filings.
- **[Webhooks](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/webhooks)** — trigger CRM import, Slack alerts or email sequences the moment a run finishes.

```js
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/uk-charity-commission-leads').call({
    minIncome: 250000,
    postcodePrefixes: ['M', 'OL', 'BL'],
    withEmailOnly: true,
    maxResults: 1000,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} charity leads`);
```

### Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

- **[Make](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make)** — multi-step automation scenarios.
- **[Zapier](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier)** — push new charity leads straight into your CRM.
- **[Slack](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack)** — get notified when a monitored search finds new charities.
- **[Google Drive / Sheets](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive)** — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
- **[Airbyte](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte)** — pipe results into your data warehouse.
- **[GitHub](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github)** — trigger runs from commits or releases.

### Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the **[Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp)** — ask your assistant to "find education charities in Manchester with over £250k income and an email" and let it run the scraper for you.

### Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is **agent-ready** — AI agents can discover it, run it, and **pay for it autonomously**, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses [pay-per-event](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize/pay-per-event) pricing and [limited permissions](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development/permissions), so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

- **[x402](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/x402)** — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp) — no account, no API key.
- **[Skyfire](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/skyfire)** — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

### More scrapers from scrapesage

Build a complete **UK & nonprofit lead-gen stack**:

- **[Companies House Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/companies-house-scraper)** — UK company profiles, officers & filings (link by company number).
- **[UK CQC Care Provider Leads](https://apify.com/scrapesage/uk-cqc-care-provider-leads)** — care homes, GPs & dentists with managers & ratings.
- **[US Nonprofit 990 Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/nonprofit-990-scraper)** — US nonprofits, financials & people from IRS 990 data.
- **[US Business Formation Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/us-business-formation-scraper)** — newly registered companies & LLCs.
- **[USAspending Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/usaspending-scraper)** — federal awards, grants & recipient leads.
- **[Form 5500 ERISA Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/form-5500-erisa-scraper)** — US retirement & benefit plan sponsors.
- **[Eventbrite Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/eventbrite-scraper)** — events plus organizer leads (emails & socials).

### Tips

- **Target by size** — `minIncome` is the single best filter; £100k+ charities are the ones with budgets to spend.
- **Target by region** — `postcodePrefixes` accepts postcode areas (`SW`, `M`, `B`) or districts (`SW1`, `M14`).
- **Target by cause** — `activitiesKeyword` searches the charity's own "what we do" text (e.g. `education`, `homeless`, `hospice`, `arts`).
- **Trustees & classification are opt-in** — they download an extra register table and only enrich the charities you actually return, keeping base runs fast.
- **Recurring monitoring** — the register refreshes monthly; combine a monthly [Schedule](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules) with `monitorMode` to capture new registrations and fresh filings.

### FAQ

**Where does the data come from?** The official Charity Commission for England & Wales **public register bulk extract** (the same data behind the online register), downloaded directly with no API key or login.

**Does it cover Scotland and Northern Ireland?** This actor covers **England & Wales** (the Charity Commission register). Scotland (OSCR) and Northern Ireland (CCNI) maintain separate registers.

**Why is an email/website blank for some charities?** The Commission only publishes contact details a charity chooses to provide. Phone and income are near-universal; email is published for ~86% of actively-reporting charities and website for ~74%.

**Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel?** Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the [Google Drive integration](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive).

**How do I get only newly-registered charities?** Set `registeredAfter` to a date, or turn on `monitorMode` and run on a monthly [Schedule](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules).

**Is this legal?** This actor uses publicly available official open data. You are responsible for using it in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. UK GDPR / PECR for outreach) and the Charity Commission's terms.

### Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's **Issues** tab, or visit the [Apify help center](https://help.apify.com/). Feature requests — including Scotland (OSCR) and Northern Ireland (CCNI) — are welcome; this actor is actively maintained.

# Actor input Schema

## `statuses` (type: `array`):

Keep only charities with these registration statuses (e.g. \["Registered"], or add "Removed" for historical charities). Leave empty to default to Registered (active) only.

## `mainCharitiesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only main charity records (drop linked subsidiary records that share a charity number). Recommended.

## `minIncome` (type: `integer`):

Keep only charities whose latest reported annual income is at least this many GBP (e.g. 100000 for £100k+). Great for targeting larger charities.

## `maxIncome` (type: `integer`):

Keep only charities whose latest reported annual income is at most this many GBP.

## `incomeBands` (type: `array`):

Keep only charities in these income bands. Allowed: "Under £10k", "£10k–£100k", "£100k–£500k", "£500k–£1M", "£1M–£10M", "Over £10M".

## `charityTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep only these charity types (case-insensitive), e.g. \["Charitable company", "CIO", "Trust", "Other"]. Leave empty for all.

## `postcodePrefixes` (type: `array`):

Keep only charities whose contact postcode starts with one of these (postcode area/district), e.g. \["SW", "M", "B", "LS"] for London SW, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds.

## `addressContains` (type: `string`):

Keep only charities whose address contains this text (case-insensitive), e.g. a town or county.

## `nameQuery` (type: `string`):

Keep only charities whose name contains this text (case-insensitive).

## `activitiesKeyword` (type: `string`):

Keep only charities whose activities description (what the charity does) or name contains this text — use it to target a cause, e.g. "education", "homeless", "mental health", "animal".

## `withEmailOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only charities that publish a contact email.

## `withPhoneOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only charities that publish a contact phone number.

## `withWebsiteOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only charities that publish a website.

## `registeredCompaniesOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only charities that are also registered companies (have a Companies House number) — charitable companies & most CIOs.

## `cioOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs).

## `giftAidOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Keep only charities registered for Gift Aid.

## `registeredAfter` (type: `string`):

Keep only charities registered on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD) — newly-registered charities as fresh leads.

## `registeredBefore` (type: `string`):

Keep only charities registered on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `minLeadScore` (type: `integer`):

Keep only charities with a lead score at or above this value (0-100).

## `includeTrustees` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the trustee list (names, chair flag, individual/organisation) to each selected charity. Downloads an extra register table (slower).

## `includeClassification` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the charity's classification (What it does / How it works / Who it helps) to each selected charity. Downloads an extra register table (slower).

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order of the output.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of charities to return.

## `includeRawFields` (type: `boolean`):

Attach the raw register row (all original columns) under sourceFields on each record.

## `monitorMode` (type: `boolean`):

Only return charities that are new or whose status, income, financial period or contact changed since the last run with the same monitor key. Ideal on a Schedule to catch newly-registered charities and fresh financial filings as leads.

## `monitorKey` (type: `string`):

Namespace for monitoring mode so independent monitors don't collide. Use a distinct key per saved configuration.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. The Charity Commission register is public open data and usually needs no proxy, so leave this off for the fastest downloads.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "statuses": [
    "Registered"
  ],
  "mainCharitiesOnly": true,
  "withEmailOnly": false,
  "withPhoneOnly": false,
  "withWebsiteOnly": false,
  "registeredCompaniesOnly": false,
  "cioOnly": false,
  "giftAidOnly": false,
  "includeTrustees": false,
  "includeClassification": false,
  "sortBy": "leadScore",
  "maxResults": 1000,
  "includeRawFields": false,
  "monitorMode": false,
  "monitorKey": "default",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped registered-charity records in the default dataset, each with firmographics, financials, contacts and a lead score.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "statuses": [
        "Registered"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapesage/uk-charity-commission-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "statuses": ["Registered"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapesage/uk-charity-commission-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "statuses": [
    "Registered"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapesage/uk-charity-commission-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapesage/uk-charity-commission-leads",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/RgtlrEyqcZJbsSfxj/builds/fIdBpGmTnZG820JWt/openapi.json