Editorial: Maybe a single representative body could address this decline in trust

By Stephen Cook, Third Sector, 2 April 2008

There has been a wide variety of reactions to the nfpSynergy poll showing that public trust in charities fell by 9 percentage points between September 2006 and July last year (Third Sector, 26 March).

One view is that the survey exaggerates the problem; another that, whatever the problem is, it's not fundraising methods; a third, that the setting up of the Fundraising Standards Board has damaged trust. And so on: the seat of the problem is governance; more segmented research is needed before we...

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