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25 March 2020 / Bethan Walsh
Issue: 7880 / Categories: Features , Charities
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Rules for charity fundraisers

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Bethan Walsh explains why so many charities often struggle to comply with legal requirements on fundraising
  • Only 40% of charities fully comply with fundraising reporting requirements.
  • Sets out duties and obligations for charities under the regulator’s good practice guidance.

The Fundraising Regulator regulates charitable fundraising in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It aims to build public trust and confidence in charities by promoting and maintaining best practice in fundraising, in order to protect donors and support the vital work of fundraisers. It also operates a voluntary system of fundraising regulation, and participation in this system demonstrates that trustees and charities are taking these responsibilities seriously.

The Charity Commission’s guidance, ‘Charity fundraising: a guide to trustee duties’ (CC20), places a duty on all trustees to ensure that their charity’s approach to fundraising complies with charity law and best practice.

In addition to this general duty, s 13 of the Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Act 2016 (the Act) sets out further fundraising reporting requirements. These further requirements

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