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OSCR Scottish Charity Register

Freeauth: noneOGL-UK-3.0#osint#nonprofits#charities#uk#scotland#open-data✓ verified Nov 11, 2026

OSCR Scottish Charity Register

The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) publishes a download of the Scottish Charity Register as a daily, free CSV-in-ZIP file, no key required. The download page says: "The list is updated on a daily basis and is free of charge."

Required Attribution:

Required: "I will acknowledge the source of this data with the attribution statement © Crown Copyright and database right [year]. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0."

Coverage

Scottish charity register data: charity numbers, names, purposes, income and status, as a daily CSV-in-ZIP download confirmed live today (application/x-zip-compressed, about 8.8 MB, filename pattern CharityExport-DD-Mon-YYYY.zip; headers checked, file itself not saved). OSCR's API is beta and application-only, so it is not presented here as an open access method; this entry covers the public CSV download only. History start and update frequency: daily, per the quote above.

Verdict

Daily, free CSV-in-ZIP download of the Scottish Charity Register (charity numbers, names, purposes, income, status) from OSCR, the Scottish Charity Regulator, confirmed live today (application/x-zip-compressed, about 8.8 MB). The download page says: "The list is updated on a daily basis and is free of charge." Licensed OGL-UK-3.0, with conditions on the same page: "I will not use this information for direct marketing. I will not use this information to create a register or list of charities that claims to be the Scottish Charity Register." Required attribution: "I will acknowledge the source of this data with the attribution statement © Crown Copyright and database right [year]. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0." OSCR's API is beta and application-only; it is not presented here as an open access method. Rate limits: Not applicable (downloads). Signal Lab links only.

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