UK Charity Lookup

Look up charity registration records by number or name, including status, registration dates and reported income and spending.

Pay by wallet (x402) charity-lookup-uk

Example

Example answer

{
  "status": "registered",
  "website": "http://www.cornerstonechurchbristol.com",
  "description": "To propagate the Christian faith by preaching, teaching and helping to meet community needs at home and overseas. By provision of financial and human resources for welfare and education in a Christian context.",
  "charity_name": "Cornerstone Church Bristol",
  "latest_income": 98543,
  "trustee_count": 3,
  "charity_number": "1038963",
  "company_number": null,
  "date_of_removal": null,
  "latest_spending": 100550,
  "latest_employees": null,
  "latest_volunteers": 30,
  "date_of_registration": "1994-07-01",
  "latest_financial_year_end": "2024-12-31"
}

Inputs

Field	Type	Required	What it is
`name`	string	No	—
`charity_number`	string	No	—

Output fields

How reliably each field appears in a successful answer.

Field	Type	Appears
`status`	string	Always (present in every successful answer)
`charity_name`	string	Always (present in every successful answer)
`latest_income`	number	Always (present in every successful answer)
`charity_number`	string	Always (present in every successful answer)

How to call it

The same tool through each route. MCP clients reach it through Strale’s server at https://api.strale.io/mcp; the call below is what the agent sends.

# Needs an API key. max_price_cents caps what this call may cost.
curl -X POST https://api.strale.io/v1/do \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STRALE_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "capability_slug": "charity-lookup-uk",
    "inputs": {
      "charity_number": "202918"
    },
    "max_price_cents": 5
  }'

{
  "tool": "strale_execute",
  "arguments": {
    "slug": "charity-lookup-uk",
    "inputs": {
      "charity_number": "202918"
    },
    "max_price_cents": 5
  }
}

import { Strale } from "straleio";

const strale = new Strale({ apiKey: process.env.STRALE_API_KEY! });
const result = await strale.do({
  capability_slug: "charity-lookup-uk",
  inputs: {
    "charity_number": "202918"
  },
  max_price_cents: 5,
});

import os
from straleio import Strale, DoRequest

strale = Strale(api_key=os.environ["STRALE_API_KEY"])
result = strale.do(DoRequest(
    capability_slug="charity-lookup-uk",
    inputs={
        "charity_number": "202918",
    },
    max_price_cents=5,
))

# No account. The first request answers 402 with the price in USDC;
# an x402 client pays it from your wallet and repeats the request.
curl -i 'https://api.strale.io/x402/v2/charity-lookup-uk?charity_number=202918'

Limitations

Only charities in England and Wales are covered
Covers charities registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales — Scottish (OSCR) and Northern Irish charities not included
What to do instead: For Scottish charities, query OSCR at oscr.org.uk; for Northern Ireland, use charitycommissionni.org.uk