Push for members at FRSB

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 22 Jan 2009

The Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) has launched a major recruitment drive in an effort to reach mid-year targets.

The campaign encourages charities to make a new year's resolution to join and its creators are targeting mid-range charities in particular.

The FRSB currently has around 950 members - a figure which includes charitable organisations and suppliers - and aims to reach 1,200 members by June.

Membership expansion is critical to the future viability of the voluntary scheme as government funding for the organisation runs out at the end of the 2009/2010 financial year.

FRSB board member and Institute of Fundraising trustee Andrew Nebel said the campaign had twin goals. “The first is to reach the remaining million pound-plus charities and convince them to join. Secondly, this campaign focuses much more on the benefits that membership offers.”

Nebel says that membership of the FRSB engenders confidence both among the charity and their donors that the organisation’s fundraising is in line with best practice.

The self-regulation organisation’s campaign is being supported by minister for the third sector Kevin Brennan, who is pictured above at the Cardiff launch with FRSB director Elaine Stallard and Michael Dent, relationship development manager for WRVS, the latest charity to join up.

Brennan said: “I have every confidence that more organisations across the third sector will follow WRVS’s lead and become members of the FRSB tick scheme.”

In the meantime, following the departure of Jon Scourse as chief executive at the organisation last month, the FRSB remains without a publicly-named chief as it heads into this major campaign.

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