Professional Fundraising

Professional Fundraising: "Salaried fundraisers will have to say they are paid

Salaried charity fundraisers will have to tell members of the public that they are paid when they solicit them for a donation, if the government accepts a recommendation of a committee of MPs.

The select committee set up to scrutinise the proposals in the draft Charities Bill has said that clause 35 of the bill - which stipulates that contracted fundraisers must make a disclosure that they are being paid - should be amended to 'require all those fundraising on behalf of charities who are paid for their services (whether under a contract of employment or otherwise) to take all reasonable steps to make this status clear when they are making an appeal'."