Save the Children has signed on to become the first client of new face-to-face company AAP.

The children’s charity is the first new client to be secured by AAP Fundraising, which was established last December as a trading subsidiary of conservation charity Aspinall Foundation.

Gareth Moore, founder and chief executive of AAP, told Civil Society that the company is in discussions with “several” other major charities to take up its fundraising services.

Meanwhile Real Fundraising, which emerged out of the collapse of Dialogue Direct last year, told Civil Society that it is preparing to “start several” new campaigns. The organisation has run eight street, door and prospecting campaigns since forming five months ago.