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Who it's for · Public appointments and government

See the boards of public bodies as GOV.UK publishes them, the same bodies on Companies House, and where the two differ.

Public appointments teams, sponsor departments, parliamentary and government researchers.

Before an appointment I need every board the candidate sits on, and whether any of them overlaps with the body.

A public appointments adviser in a sponsor department
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Local examples on this page use Kettering until you choose a place.

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What you come here to do

Three things appointments teams come here to doiEach one is a short walkthrough on real public records, ending with a search you can run yourself.

1CheckCheck a candidate's other rolesThe GOV.UK appointment beside any charity and company roles under the same name, kept separate until the records confirm they match.The Charity Commission: 16 people serving now and 5 pastWalk it through →2ReachSpot overlaps and conflictsWhere a public body is also a company, the directors it shares with other organisations.High Speed Two (HS2) Limited: 7 people serving now and 3 pastWalk it through →3Strengthen a boardPlan a board's renewalYears served and recent changes on a public body's board.Dotdigital Group PLC: 4 of 6 seats held six years or moreWalk it through →
Seen on a real record

Start from the public bodyiThe Charity Commission's page on this register lists the people serving now and the past entries, each with a role and the years, as GOV.UK published them, with the date they were retrieved. Every public body in the file has a page like it.

Public bodyThe Charity Commission
Non-ministerial departmentLiveSponsor: Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

Serving now (16)

10 more entries on the body's page.

Past entries (5)

Source: GOV.UK Content API and the Cabinet Office Public Bodies directory, retrieved 2026-09-21. Open Government Licence v3.0. · Open this body

Tools on the register

Where this leads

Public appointmentsBodies, board members and the dates GOV.UK publishes, with the source on each.→ParliamentMembers of the Commons and Lords.→Trust and dataHow records are sourced, matched and corrected.→
Why you can rely on it

Sources, matching and privacy

Official sources

Board and officer records from the Charity Commission, OSCR, the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Companies House and the Department for Education, with other public registers named on each record. Every fact shows its register and date.

How we handle data

Careful matching

Records are joined into one person only where our identity-matching rules support it. Confirmed relationships are supported by the approved evidence and rules. Likely relationships are shown with the label “Likely the same person”. Connections are calculated here and labelled as calculated.

Methodology

Private by default

Nobody is told you looked them up. Viewing, searching and saving are private. Near Me lists organisations only, never where people live, and nothing a person types becomes an official fact.

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