The sponsor dataset, ready to use
The Home Office publishes the register as a spreadsheet with four columns and no history. This is the same register joined to Companies House, de-duplicated, given stable identifiers, and diffed against every previous publication. Take it as a file, or read it from your own systems.
- Rows in the export
- 127,584
- Columns per row
- 30
- Changes recorded so far
- 937
- Register published
- 4 Sept 2026
Try it first
The first 50 rows, in full, with no sign-up and no email address. If the columns are not what you need, you have lost nothing.
Pricing
Full dataset export
Every licensed sponsor as one file, with the Companies House join.
£49 one-off
- All sponsors on the current register, and those removed since our first copy
- CSV and newline-delimited JSON, the same 26 columns in both
- Companies House number, status, industry, size and registered address where matched
- Download for 30 days, up to 20 times
API access
Read the register and the daily change feed from your own systems.
£29 per month
- Sponsors, one sponsor, and changes, as JSON over HTTPS
- 50,000 requests a month, 120 a minute
- Filter by town, industry, route, rating and last update
- Cancel any time; the key stops at the end of the period
Prices are in pounds and exclude VAT where it applies. Payment is taken by Stripe; card details never reach this site. Checkout is not enabled on this deployment, so the buttons are inactive.
What is in a row
The same 30 fields in the CSV, the NDJSON and the API, so moving between them costs nothing.
- url
- slug
- name
- trading_name
- town
- county
- routes
- route_ratings
- rating_summary
- licence_types
- on_register
- first_seen_date
- last_seen_date
- removed_date
- company_number
- match_confidence
- company_name
- company_status
- company_type
- incorporation_date
- sic_code
- sic_description
- sic_section
- registered_address
- postcode
- size_band
- employees
- accounts_period_end
- companies_house_data_as_of
- updated_at
The API
Three read-only endpoints over HTTPS, authenticated with a bearer key: every sponsor, one sponsor, and the change feed. The change feed is the one most subscribers actually poll.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer sd_live_…" \
"https://sponsordirectory.co.uk/api/v1/changes?since=2026-09-01"What you are paying for
Not the data. The register is Crown copyright published under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and anyone may download it from GOV.UK for nothing and use it commercially. Companies House data is published under the same licence.
You are paying for the work between those files and something usable: the match to Companies House at a confidence threshold we can defend, stable identifiers that survive a name change, the history of what moved between publications, and delivery in a shape that does not need cleaning first.
Your obligation is the licence's: attribute the source when you publish anything derived from it. The wording is in every download header and every API response.