Tag: Fundraising Regulator

Fundraising Regulator appoints four board members to start in April

Stuart Mitchell

The Fundraising Regulator is pleased to announce it has appointed four new members to its board to help guide the strategic direction of the organisation. Paul Amadi, Anne Heal, Nick Jones, and Girish Menon all bring extensive knowledge and experience in charity, fundraising and regulation. They will commence their new roles in April 2025. Paul Amadi joins as a Fundraising Regulator board member with substantial expertise in charitable fundraising, including in his current role as Executive Director of Marketing, Fundraising and Communications at the British Red Cross. He has previously…

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Fundraising Regulator appoints new committee members

Stuart Mitchell

The Fundraising Regulator has appointed four new committee members to replace long-serving members who have come to the end of their terms of appointment.   Jen Suter and Adrian Williams have been appointed to join the Fundraising Regulator’s Standards Committee, while Valerie Morton and Damian Chapman have been appointed to the Complaints and Investigations Committee.   In their roles on the Standards Committee, Jen and Adrian will help oversee the development of the Code of Fundraising Practice, in consultation with those who fundraise and the public. They will help the Fundraising Regulator…

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Fundraising Regulator invites sector to have its say on the new draft Code of Fundraising Practice

Stuart Mitchell

The Fundraising Regulator has launched the final phase of the review of the Code of Fundraising Practice (the code) with a consultation on a new draft code. This provides the opportunity for the sector to see and comment on the new streamlined code before it launches next year.      Respond to the consultation here.  The Code of Fundraising Practice sets the standards that apply to fundraising carried out by all charitable institutions and third-party fundraisers in the UK. The review is being undertaken to ensure the code provides an effective regulatory…

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Fundraising Regulator releases new guidance on working with professional fundraisers & commercial participators

Stuart Mitchell

The Fundraising Regulator have released a post on their website telling how they recently published two new pieces of guidance for charities: one about working with commercial participators and one about working with professional fundraisers. I enclose the post below written by Oliver Bayer, Policy Officer at the Fundraising Regulator who original published and own copyrights for it. Please check out their ebsite and learn more about the great ork they do. In autumn 2023, we ran a public consultation as part of our review of the Code of Fundraising…

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Opinium Research: The public’s experience and expectations of charitable fundraising

Stuart Mitchell

Paul Winyard, Head of Policy at the Fundraising Regulator, shares insights into the recent research led by Opinium on our behalf, looking at the public’s experience and expectations of charitable fundraising. Charity fundraisers have access to a great deal of information about how people give and which causes they support. However, less is known about the public’s real-world experience of fundraising practice. In our role as a regulator, we are committed to using public research to underpin and inform our work and it’s important that we understand the motivations and…

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