UK Charitable Status

The University of Durham (trading as Durham University) is a charity but it is not a "Registered Charity".

Instead it is an "Exempt Charity" noted in the Second Schedule of the 1960 Charities Act. This means that we do not have a "registered charity number".  Instead we have an Inland Revenue Claim number, X6507, which demonstrates that the Revenue accepts our charitable status. Accountants and lawyers sometimes need to quote this number, in particular in relation to corporate gifts or to legacies.