Charity numbers
Steve Elibank made this Freedom of Information request to Charity Commission for England and Wales This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Sir/Madam;
Please treat this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
1. I would like a list of all charity numbers issued since 1st January 1991 and are no longer in use for whatever reason.
2. I would also like a list of all charity numbers currently in use.
Note that I am not asking for any associated information, just an actual list of numbers.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank
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Dear Mr Elibank,
Thank you for your request. As the number of main charities removed from
the register since 1991 exceeds 109,000 and the number of live main
charities exceeds 160,000, it is not obvious to me what would be the most
helpful way to present the data. Perhaps you would be kind enough to
email me at the above address or ring me on 01823 345169 to discuss it.
Yours sincerely,
Eleanor Tew
Research Assistant
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From: Joanne Pinnington
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:35 PM
To: Eleanor Tew
Subject: FW: Freedom of Information request - Charity Numbers
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Dear Sir/Madam;
Please treat this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
1. I would like a list of all charity numbers issued since 1st
January 1991 and are no longer in use for whatever reason.
2. I would also like a list of all charity numbers currently in
use.
Note that I am not asking for any associated information, just an
actual list of numbers.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank
Dear Ms Tew,
Thank-you for your reply. I am not sure of what the options are, but if you could manage to get the numbers into an Excel, CSV or PDF file, compress it if need be, and then email that, that would be ideal for my purposes.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Steve Elibank
Dear Mr Elibank,
An Excel worksheet has less than 64,000 rows, so the data would have to
go into multiple columns on the same worksheet or multiple worksheets in
the same workbook. Alternatively I could supply the numbers in a single
list, one per line, to be imported into any database package that can
take text or comma-separated files.
Eleanor
Dear Ms Tew,
I think that your second suggestion ("the numbers in a single list, one per line, to be imported into any database package that can take text or comma-separated files") would be perfect.
Yours sincerely,
Steve Elibank
Dear Mr Elibank,
Please find the two files attached. I hope they are satisfactory.
Yours sincerely,
Eleanor Tew
Dear Mr Elibank,
You will have now received a response from my colleague Eleanor Tew
regarding your request for information under the Freedom of Information
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Joanne Pinnington
Deputy Corporate Information Manager
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