Overview of Charity Data Flow

One important issue is to be able to seed the directory with relatively up to date data from Charities, and also to keep that data up to date. In the UK an organization called OpenCharities provides the most accessible version of the official charity records, taken from the official UK charity commission, which charities are supposed to lodge records with each year. Some charities may not remember to update their data every year - also if address changes, reminders from charities commission may not be arriving at the right person, who may think they have unregistered. Operational address may be different from registered one for short periods of time. The diagram below shows a rough flow of the information: