"Clarified and more up-to-date powers for councils" are needed to regulate face-to-face fundraising, according to the Local Government Association in its submission to the Charities Act review.

Reversing the funding cuts to the Charity Commission, restricting public fundraising licences to FRSB members only and comprehensive self-regulation are just three of the many recommendations put to Lord Hodgson in his Charities Act Review consultation.

Glasgow has become the first Scottish city or town to enter a full voluntary site agreement with the PFRA restricting face-to-face fundraising in the city centre.

Charity shop tax benefits have come under fire from a Tory MP in a backbencher debate about the future of the British high street.