Scotland · civil-society · register
The statutory register of Scottish charities, published as a full download, a five-year annual-returns file and an API. Separate from the England & Wales register and maintained by a different regulator under different law.
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| Publisher | Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) |
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| Publication mandate | Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 |
| Licence | Open Government Licence v3.0 — reuse and redistribution permitted with attribution verified 2026-08-25 |
| Access method | csv |
| Fragmentation | single register |
| Update frequency | monthly |
| History | five years of annual returns published as a separate file |
| Free structured version | yes — https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/download-the-scottish-charity-register/ |
| Who else serves this | none identified (listed as caution, not endorsement — an existing free or commercial service is often the most useful thing on this page) |
| mandated publication | pass |
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| terms permissive or silent | pass |
| no login paywall captcha personal data | pass |
| no specialist legal advice needed | pass |
| verdict | pass |
The download page states OGL v3.0 verbatim and supplies the required attribution wording. It also asks the user to accept the terms by using the list, which is a licence acceptance, not an access control.
Last checked 2026-08-25.