Editorial: If the sector wants to increase trust, more charities must join the FRSB

By Stephen Cook, Third Sector, 14 May 2008

When the sector think tank nfpSynergy published research in March this year indicating that trust in charities was at a low ebb, elements of the fundraising community were among those decrying it. Charities were still a lot more popular than the royal family and the church, said some. Who wants yesterday's news, according to others, who focused on the fact that the survey was carried out last July.

One part of the fundraising community that evidently does take the report seriously is the Fundraising Standards Board. In its review of its first year of operation, published last week, it puts the report at the top of its list of evidence that the relationship between charities and the public...