Face-to-face fundraising is sick of being “constantly stabbed in the back” by members of the fundraising community and needs charities to stand up for it, Public Fundraising Regulatory Association’s chief Mick Aldridge said today in a stinging attack on the sector’s reticence to defend the practice.

The entrepreneur founder of a new foundation has called on charities to reduce their spending on administration and suggested he might work towards developing a star rating system, ranking charities on their efficiency.

If female leaders are too modest to identify themselves how will we ever get more women into top jobs? Celina Ribeiro says top women in charities need to stand up, literally.

Risk-averse trustee boards are holding back progress on finding new ways of fundraising, according to fundraisers debating the value of innovation at the International Fundraising Congress.