Data
Spine of all third sector organisations
The initial data product of this project is a spine of all UK third sector organisations, their names, addresses and dates of registration (and dissolution where relevant). Additionally, where organisations are found in more than one register, we provide a file listing these linkages. Data relating to alternative names and addresses is also collated for completeness.
The organisational spine consists of three csv files:
- public_spine.spine.csv contains a row for each organisation considered to make up the UK’s thrid sector, with name, address and date details.
- public_spine.supplementary.csv contains any name, address and date information associated with an organsiation which is additional to what is in the spine, such as ‘Also Known As’ names, previous addresses.
- public_spine.matches.csv lists the organisations which are linked or matched according to our searches, along with the type of match.
Download spine files
These three files can be downloaded using these links:
- Download zipped csv files : Release #3 (30-9-24).
- Download zipped csv files : Release #2 (16-7-24).
- Download zipped csv files : Release #1 (4-7-24).
Data dictionaries
Main organisational spine
The file containing the list of unique organisations comprising the third sector, public_spine.spine.csv, contains the following fields:
| Fieldname | Notes |
|---|---|
| uid | UID created for each source, e.g. GB-CHC-1234 |
| organisationname | Name as primary in source |
| normalisedname | Name normalised to capitalise, remove extra spaces and punctuation - to aid matching |
| fulladdress | Full address as found in source with highest precendence across any matched organisations |
| city | City matching full address as defined above |
| postcode | Postcode matching full address as defined above |
| registerdate | Earliest registration date found in records for this organisation across all sources |
| removeddate | Latest dissolution date found in records for this organisation across all sources |
Supplementary information
File of supplementary data for organisations, public_spine.supplementary.csv, contains the following fields:
| Fieldname | Notes |
|---|---|
| uid | UID created for each source using source and id from original source |
| organisationname | Alternative name |
| normalisedname | (Alt name normalised) |
| fulladdress | Alternative address |
| city | Alternative address |
| postcode | Alternative address |
| registerdate | Alternative registration date |
| removeddate | Alternative removed / dissolved date |
Matches
Matches between organisations are listed in file public_spine.matches.csv, using the following fields:
| Fieldname | Notes |
|---|---|
| uid | UID created for each source, matches table - if match is unambiguous; blank otherwise |
| orgA_id_in_source | ID in original source, for matched organisation A |
| orgA_source | Original source of organisation A |
| orgA_uid | UID created for organisation A |
| orgB_id_in_source | ID in original source, for matched organisation B |
| orgB_source | Original source of organisation B |
| orgB_uid | UID created for organisation B |
| match_type | Type of match (e.g. by name, by companyid) |