Draft guidance seeks to clarify rules for professional fundraisers

By Emma Rigby, Third Sector Online, 21 February 2008

The Cabinet Office has published draft guidance on new rules that will require agency fundraisers who are paid to raise money on behalf of charities to tell supporters how much of their donations goes to charity and how much goes towards paying fundraisers' wages.

The rules, which were introduced by the Charities Act 2006, will affect street, telephone and door-to-door collectors. Shops that donate a proportion of a sale price on particular items must also state exactly how much goes to charity. They will come into force on 1 April. The guidance, which is...