FRSB News
9 November 2011
FRSB Welcomes Independent Review of Charities Act
The Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) has welcomed the appointment of Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, as the independent reviewer of the Charities Act 2006, as announced by the Office for Civil Society today (9 th November 2011). The FRSB runs the self-regulatory scheme for fundraising, which was introduced as a direct recommendation of the Act and will be reviewed as part of this independent process.
Colin Lloyd, Chair of the Fundraising Standards Board, says: “We have been working closely with the team at the Office for Civil Society, as well as Government in Scotland and Wales to ensure that they are happy with our progress to date. Over the past few years, our priority has been building and developing strong and effective self-regulation that is appropriate for fundraising organisations across the board. We have welcomed charities of all causes and sizes into membership, as well as a large number of suppliers. Membership grows at around 25 organisations per month and more organisations than ever before are using the tick logo on their appeals.
“In the build up to our fifth anniversary (in February 2012), this is an ideal time to step back and review what is working well and what could be improved. I am looking forward to working openly with the reviewer and gaining their feedback about what could be done to enhance the self-regulatory scheme for fundraising.”
On 6th Feburary 2006, Paul Goggins MP (the then Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the Home Department) presented a Ministerial Statement to the House of Commons, setting out the core objective for self-regulation:
“The main aim of the self-regulation scheme is to maintain and build on the high levels of public trust and confidence in the voluntary sector’s fundraising activities. The scheme will help the sector guard against future threats to these high levels of public confidence. It will promote best practice and enable the sector to respond to criticism.”
Having launched to the public one year later (February 2007), the FRSB now represents a membership of around 1,350 fundraising organisations. Together these organisation account for 41% of all fundraising income in the UK and include most of the top 100 charities by voluntary income.
In the FRSB’s latest annual report (published June 2011), Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, commended the self-regulatory body on its work:
“I would like to congratulate the FRSB on its continuing growth and development in promoting best fundraising practice in the charity sector. Good self-regulation ensures high levels of public trust and confidence and that charities need to operate effectively. I am pleased that the FRSB continues to make good progress towards that goal.”
The Charities Act determines that, should self-regulations be deemed to have failed, the Government retains the power to introduce a statutory regulation system.
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