# Vet a UK charity before you partner with it. Read its finances, trustees and filings Partners and funders need more than a mission statement. The Charity Commission gives the registration, trustees and five years of income and spending, Companies House covers the charity's company record where it has one, and Tavily finds recent reporting. - For: CSR teams, foundations and sponsorship managers - Providers: 3 (Charity Commission, Companies House and Tavily), 6 tools - Example (One name search, two Charity Commission reads, two company reads and one press search. Further charities are quoted separately): at most $0.008, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-11-04 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **Charity Commission** (3 tools, free): The registration, trustees, reporting status and five years of income and spending. - **Companies House** (2 tools, free): The company record of a charitable company, with its accounts dates and officers. - **Tavily** (1 tool, at most $0.008): Recent reporting on the charity and its work. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: uk charity partner check. Vet a UK charity before we partner with it. Find the exact registered charity and confirm the match with me. Read its registration, reporting status, trustees and five years of income and spending, and note large swings and the share of spending that goes to charitable activities. If it is a charitable company, read its company record and officers. Search recent reporting. Separate filed figures from press claims and end with the questions I should ask the charity. Use these Agentik tools for the written steps: charity-commission/name-search, charity-commission/charity-details, charity-commission/financial-history, companies-house/company-profile, companies-house/officers, tavily/search. Inspect their current schemas and availability first. Ask for missing inputs and use identifiers returned by actual earlier results. The page's example identifiers illustrate input shapes. Quote more pages before expanding. Preserve source links, dates and uncertainty. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - The charity's name or registered number - What the partnership would involve - The amount at stake ## Before this job - The tools must be available in your connected Agentik catalog. Ask for the missing provider configuration if a tool is unavailable. ## What you get: a partner brief with finances, governance and press - Registration and reporting status - Five years of income and spending - Trustees and company officers - Press findings and questions for the charity ## How to vet a UK charity before partnering in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: One name search, two Charity Commission reads, two company reads and one press search. Further charities are quoted separately. ### 1. Find the registered charity Match on the registered number, then reuse the company number the register returns. - [Charity Commission charity name search](/tools/charity-commission/name-search.md) `charity-commission/name-search` (Charity Commission): free - [Charity Commission charity details](/tools/charity-commission/charity-details.md) `charity-commission/charity-details` (Charity Commission): free ### 2. Read five years of finances Compare income, spending and their sources year by year, and explain any large swing before judging it. - [Charity Commission financial history](/tools/charity-commission/financial-history.md) `charity-commission/financial-history` (Charity Commission): free ### 3. Read the company record A charitable company also files at Companies House. Check its status, accounts dates and officers. - [Companies House company profile](/tools/companies-house/company-profile.md) `companies-house/company-profile` (Companies House): free - [Companies House company officers](/tools/companies-house/officers.md) `companies-house/officers` (Companies House): free ### 4. Read recent reporting Keep each article's date and separate reporting from the charity's own statements. - [Tavily agent search](/tools/tavily/search.md) `tavily/search` (Tavily): at most $0.008 Example total: at most $0.008. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Vet a UK charity before we partner with it. - Keep the sample small and cite the source for each conclusion. ## Why through Agentik - Collect the official sources through one Agentik connection. - Inspect the price of each bounded call before running it. - Keep each figure beside its source and date. ## Good to know - This register covers England and Wales. Scottish and Northern Irish charities have their own regulators. - Filed figures can be more than a year old, and a large swing can have an ordinary cause such as an emergency appeal. ## When to use something else For grant tracking and impact reporting across many charities, use a grants management platform. This playbook vets one partner from public records. ## UK charity partner check: questions ### What does the example cost? At most $0.008 for the illustrated calls. The official records are free through Agentik, and the paid calls are the press, maps or email steps. ### Does the result cover every source? No. Public records have publication lags and search results can be incomplete. Keep the collection date, sample size and missing evidence visible. ### Does this send messages or change an account? No. These steps read public records and prepare a brief. Sending a message or changing an account requires a separate instruction. ## Keep going - [Company due diligence](/company-due-diligence.md): Its legal identity and status, its SEC filings when it is US-listed, when its domain was registered, and any lawsuits or liquidation in the news. - [Online reputation audit](/reputation-audit.md): What Google shows when people search your brand, your Trustpilot reviews, the news, Reddit threads and the web pages that mention you, in one audit. - [UK supplier check](/uk-supplier-check.md): A UK company's registry status, directors, owners, filings, charges and insolvency record, read beside its LEI and recent press. - [Company data tools for your agent](/tools/company.md) - [Research tools for your agent](/tools/research.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/charity-partner-check) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)