GuideStar database passes into private sector hands - Civil Society - Finance - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits

GuideStar database passes into private sector hands - Civil Society - Finance - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits: "The GuideStar public website, which was set up with �2.9m of public money in 2004, may soon cease to be free if its new private sector owner deems it uneconomical to support.

In the latest development in the long-running saga of GuideStar’s ownership, Wilmington Group plc announced on Friday that it has acquired the assets of GuideStar Data Services CIC (GDS), including the free-to-access public website and the database of financial information about charities, from the administrators Maidment Judd. No price was disclosed."