Charity Commission Number
This pattern was last updated 23/09/2020, this is version 1.0
Stable
Pattern created
18/09/2020
Description
A Charity Commission Number is the identifier assigned to organisations which are registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales or the Charity Commission Northern Ireland.
In the FSA, it is mostly used as a property of operator, when the operator is a registered charity, similar to the Company Registration Number.
Field formats, data types, and patterns
The pattern for storing Charity Commission Numbers in our services is to use an 8 character alphanumeric string.
From the Charity Commission Register for England and Wales, registration numbers are 7 numerical digits, rising to 8 numerical digits for more recent registrations. For Charity Commission Northern Ireland the registration numbers are 6 numerical digits eg 00000000 or 000000. Whilst these appear to be numerical, there is the possibility that the Northern Ireland numbers could have a suffix in the format -0 to indicate that the charity is a sub charity, therefore the 8 digit alphanumeric string will also accommodate this.