CF Labs

Data & Licensing

Postcode Data

The postcode data used on this website for the search & mapping facilities are provided by mySociety's MaPit service with help from Pezholio's UK Postcodes service.

These services contains Ordanance Survey & National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2010, and Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2010. Great Britain data may be used under the terms of the OS OpenData licence and Northern Ireland data may be used under the terms of the NSPD Open Licence (MS Word document).

Reusing our Community Post Office Data

The Community Post Offices & statistics data on this site is available using the Open Government License for public sector information.

Machine Readable Data

We aim to publish all the data on this site in machine readable formats. Initially we are doing so using JSON. Statistics data is additionally available in CSV format.

Organisation Details

Add ".json" to the end of that organisation's URL. E.g.
http://communitypo.cflabs.org.uk/browse/post_office/22.json

Organisations Near Postcode

/search/postcode/[postcode].json (e.g. http://communitypo.cflabs.org.uk/search/postcode/HR36AD.json)

Statistics Data

Links to JSON & CSV formats of statistics are available underneath each graph in the statistics section.

Community Post Offices is a joint initiative involving:
Consumer Focus - Campaigning for a fair deal
Plunkett Foundation
Social Enterprise Coalition
CF Labs

CF Labs

We build online tools and services to make people's dealings with companies fairer and simpler, or to improve access to important information and data.

CF Labs & Consumer Focus