# nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk

Fetch UK registered charity details by charity number or organisation name. Read-only. No side effects. Idempotent. UK only. charity_number_or_name: UK registered charity number (7 digits, e.g. 1234567) or full/partial organisation name. Required. Returns registration status, income, expenditure, activities, and trustee count. Use this for UK charities. Use nonprofit_fetch_nonprofit_by_ein or nonprofit_search_nonprofits_by_name for US nonprofits. Verified source: UK Charity Commission OGL v3. 24-hour cache. If this tool's response does not serve the user's need, call report_feedback with feedback_type="agent_gap", tool_id="nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk", intended_query="{what the user needed}", gap_description="{what was missing or wrong in the result}".

Agent View of the PolicyLayer registry record for `nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk`. HTML page: https://policylayer.com/tools/dev-7bd0-mcp-server/nonprofit-fetch-charity-uk

## Facts

- Tool: `nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk`
- Server: DataNexus MCP (`dev-7bd0/mcp-server`) — https://policylayer.com/tools/dev-7bd0-mcp-server.md
- Homepage: https://github.com/dev-7bd0/mcp-server
- Risk category: Read (Low risk)
- Registry record: grade F, identity unverified
- Server rate-limited: no
- Parameters: 1
- Recommended policy verdict: Allowed

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `charity_number_or_name` | string | no | UK charity number e.g. 1089464 or name substring. Required. |

Parameters from the server's own tool schema.

## Example call (MCP tools/call, JSON-RPC 2.0)

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## Why nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk is rated Low

This tool retrieves publicly available data from the UK Charity Commission with no capability to modify, execute code, destroy data, or incur financial obligations. The read-only, idempotent nature and reference to verified public data sources confirm the Read category. Severity is low because misuse would only expose publicly registered charity information with minimal security impact.

From the tool's own definition: "Tool description explicitly states 'Read-only. No side effects. Idempotent.' Fetches and returns UK charity registration details (registration status, income, expenditure, activities, trustee count) without modifying, executing, or deleting data."

## Use case

AI agents call nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk to retrieve information from DataNexus MCP without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

## Recommended policy (PolicyLayer)

Verdict: **Allowed**. Enforced by the PolicyLayer MCP gateway (https://policylayer.com/mcp-gateway) before a call reaches DataNexus MCP:

```json
{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "nonprofit_fetch_charity_uk": {}
  }
}
```

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