Many UK charities either operate overseas or have connections overseas where there are different rules for names. Plus, foreign people in the UK will be connected to charities. Additionally, many charities will be connected with “individuals of status”, and it is important to use the correct formal names. This will be especially important when a charity is lobbying or fundraising at a high level.

Much name data will come from people filling in web forms. From these, it is regularly unclear as some information van be missing or ambiguous.

• Mrs Smith (first name missing)
• David Lloyd George (is 'Lloyd' a middle name or part of the surname?)

Therefore, Charity Radar has to be able to support a variety of name formats:

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