The Charity Commission keeps a public register of charity mergers to ensure that legacies and other gifts left to any charities which ‘disappear’ following a merger will be automatically transferred to the new merged charity.
The official Register of Mergers is held and maintained by the Charity Commission. Their web version is updated monthly and was last updated 30 November 2010.
Fields in the data are:
- merger_date – Date mergered registered
- transfer_date – Date property transferred
- transferee – Name of receiving charity (transferee)
- transferee_no – Charity number of receiving charity (transferee)
- transferor – Name of transferring charity (transferor)
- transferor_no – Charity number of transferring charity (transferor)
- vesting_date – Date Vesting Declaration made