Approved fund-raising activities

Data Providers

Office of the Government Chief Information Officer

Data Category

Update Frequency

Social Welfare Department: as necessary; Food and Environmental Hygiene Department: twice daily; Home Affairs Department: as necessary; Home Affairs Bureau: as necessary.

Description

Information of approved fund-raising activities for Public Subscription Permit, Temporary Hawker Licence, Lottery Licence and Non-Charitable Fund-Raising Permit.

HTTP method: GET

Parameters:

fromdate: First date in a date range of the fund-raising activities searching for (in yyyymmdd format).
todate: Last date in a date range of the fund-raising activities searching for (in yyyymmdd format).
activity: Type of activity. Valid values are: fund: General Charitable Fund-Raising Activity; flag: Flag Day; lotpub: Lottery (Obtained Approval For Selling On Public Streets); lotpri: Lottery (Not Obtained Approval For Selling On Public Streets); sell: On-street Selling For Fund-Raising Purpose; noncharitable: Non-Charitable Fund-Raising Activity.
licence: Type of licence. Valid values are: lottery: Lottery Licence; psp: Public Subscription Permit; hawker: Temporary Hawker Licence; noncharitable: Public Fund-raising Permit for Non-charitable Purposes.
charitable: Charitable or non-charitable activity. 1 returns charitable activities; 0 returns non-charitable activities.
orderby: Sorting order of the returned data
Valid values are: date: by activity date; activity: by activity type; licence: by licence type.
orderstyle: Sorting order of the returned data. Valid values are: asc: ascending; desc: descending.
itemperpage: no. of items returned on a page (max. 100)
page: based on itemperpage value, the page to be returned

Note:

If either fromdate or todate value is not provided, today's activity will be returned
If no activity type value is specified, all records with any activity type will be returned
If no licence type value is specified, all records with any licence type will be returned
If no charitable value is specified, both charitable and non-charitable actvities will be returned
If no orderby value is specified, the returned data will be sorted by date
If no orderstyle value is specified, the returned data will be sorted by descending order
If no itemperpage value is specified, the number of returned items will be defaulted to 10
If itemperpage is more than 100, a maximum of 100 records will be returned for each request
If no page value is specified, the data belongs to the first page will be returned
Activity schedule with timeFrom 00:00 and timeTo 00:00 indicates a whole day event

Data Dictionar(ies)

https://www.gov.hk/en/theme/fundraising/datasets/Data_Specification_for_Fund-Raising_Activities_PSI_EN.pdf