Rap charity's knuckles over pens affair, says MP

By Emma Rigby, Third Sector, 6 February 2008

The Fundraising Standards Board should have given Cancer Research UK "a rap on the knuckles" in its adjudication on a complaint about the charity, according to David Lepper, Labour MP for Brighton Pavilion.

In its first adjudication, the FRSB rejected a complaint from a man who claimed he had been aggressively targeted over two years with 13 CRUK mail packs containing pens. The board concluded there was not sufficient evidence to show all 13 had been received within the alleged two-year period. "I...

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