GuideStar UK starts to publish online
Howard Lake | 7 March 2004 | News
GuideStar UK, the charity that has been set up to provide detailed information online about UK charities, has started to publish updates on its progress.
The original holding page has been replaced by a site which contains information about the organisation, how it plans to create an online database of UK charities and its timetable to launch.
Established by the Institute for Philanthropy, GuideStar UK will launch in a series of phases from early 2005. the first phas will cover the 160,000 registered charities in England and Wales. It will then extend coverage to charities in Scotland and Northern Ireland and to “excepted” and “exempt” charities in England and Wales.
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One year ago this month GuideStar UK was awarded a grant of £2.9m over 3 years from the Treasury’s Invest to Save Budget. This funding was designed to “cover part of the development and implementation stages of GuideStar UK.”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.