About OpenCharity
What it shows
OpenCharity has a page for every charity on the Charity Commission's register with a contact address in Wales. Each page says what the charity does in its own words, where it works, its income and spending over five years, its trustees and whether its annual returns arrived on time.
Where the data exists, a page also shows who funds the charity, from two sources kept apart. The first is the charity's own filed accounts, read by an AI model and labelled as such. The second is grants that funders publish to 360Giving. Neither covers all of a charity's income, so neither is added to the other.
Charities registered in Scotland or Northern Ireland, and charities based in England that work in Wales, are not included yet.
How we treat the data
- Every figure names its source and the date it was loaded, and links to the original.
- Where the register has no figure, the page says so. We never fill a gap with an estimate.
- There is no single score. Lists can be sorted by a figure such as income, but a bigger number does not make a charity better. Public data shows money and reach. It cannot show whether a charity changes lives, so we do not pretend it can.
- We show a charity's website if it has given one. Email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses on the register are never shown or downloaded here.
Where the data comes from
The charity register is published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales under the Open Government Licence. OpenEconomy, the open economic observatory for Wales, loads it every month and checks it before it appears here.
Who runs it
OpenCharity is published by Datblygu Cymru, which also runs OpenSenedd and OpenCouncil. It is not run or endorsed by the Charity Commission or the Welsh Government.
Mistakes and corrections
If something about a charity looks wrong, email us with the charity number. Most figures come straight from the register, so a charity can also correct its own record with the Charity Commission.