Feedback invited on Fundraising Preference Service proposals

The working group that is setting out the details of the Fundraising Preference Service has published some of its key proposals and is inviting comment on them.

The working group is hoping that the feedback will ensure that its final recommendations are informed by the views of charities of all sizes and by fundraising organisations.

The working group was set up following the government’s acceptance in full of the recommendations on the future of fundraising self-regulation by the Etherington Review in October 2015. This included the recommendation to establish a Fundraising Preference Service with its notion of a ‘single reset button’, as part of a new fundraising self-regulatory scheme.

Proposals for the Fundraising Preference Service

The proposals in the working group’s paper cover:

• The type of communications that should come within the scope of the FPS
• The channels to which the FPS should apply
• How the FPS should relate to existing preference services such as the TPS and MPS
• The possibility of allowing individuals to amend their FPS registration
• The application of the FPS to smaller charities
• The use of the FPS as a tool to protect vulnerable people

How to respond

Charities and other interested parties are invited to submit their comments to George Kidd, chair of the working group.

The working group, which is hosted by NCVO, whose CEO Stuart Etherington chaired the original review, will also hold a series of roundtables and evidence sessions throughout March in order to gather further feedback on the proposals.

George Kidd said:

“I believe we can create a service that works well for charities and other fundraising organisations, while meeting the public expectation that there is a way to easily deal with a situation where they feel they receive an unmanageable volume of fundraising requests. This will help us show that charities take public concerns and their obligations to good data stewardship seriously and are deserving of the public’s trust”.

 

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