PFRA not ready to name and shame problem chuggers 3
Tags: Face-to-face fundraising
Ian MacQuillin
Head of Communications, Public Fundraising Regulatory Association
Ian Macquillin is communications and engagement manager for the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA), a position he took up in June 2009. Before that he was an account director at Turner PR, a specialist fundraising PR agency owned by Jenny Turner.
Macquillin was once a trade journalist, and edited Professional Fundraising magazine from 2001 to February 2006. He wrote the chapter on ethics in the recently-published Directory of Social Change book on corporate fundraising.
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Tag overhauls fundraising training after Sunday Telegraph exposé 6
Tags: Face-to-face fundraising | Regulation
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Shelter apologises for face-to-face fundraisers targeting commuter bus
Tags: Face-to-face fundraising
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PFRA introduces door-to-door rulebook and monitoring system 1
Tags: Regulation | Face-to-face fundraising
The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association has introduced a rulebook with teeth for door-to-door fundraising; rule breaches will attract fines and the PFRA will monitor compliance.
The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association has told its members to ignore threats from Wolverhampton City Council to fine street fundraisers up to £500 using a byelaw introduced last year.
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