Looking for a Company to Charity Number Lookup

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I found some background info on this of possible interest:

• Gov.uk information on charity structures: Set up a charity: Structures - GOV.UK and for more detail on setup Charity types: how to choose a structure (CC22a) - GOV.UK

• Overview article on charity / company structures here: Registration: Charity and/or Company – VolResource

Short summary of that info - also note this is not exhaustive and I’m certainly not an expert in this area:

• Not all charities will appear in Companies House records.

• There are several different charity / trust / community benefit structures which do appear in Companies House:

• Charitable company - just a private company (normally limited by guarantee). Presumably whichever charities regulator the charity is registered would hold information on the company number?

• Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). I believe these are the entries of type charitable-incorporated-organisation and scottish-charitable-incorporated-organisation in the companyProfile resource (with company numbers CE… and CS…) in Companies House.

• I think the following - certainly the first - may not fall under “charities regulated by e.g. the Charities Commission” but here for reference:

• Community Interest Companies (CIC) - social enterprises. The companyProfile resource member is_community_interest_company should be set to true for these. Info at the CIC regulator and FAQ here (gov.uk).

• Industrial and Provident Societies (IPS) - co-operatives, mutual societies and community organisations with type industrial-and-provident-society in the companyProfile resource. Registered via the FCA.