Like the Institute of Fundraising, the PFRA is also looking at mapping routes into the voluntary sector through being a face-to-face fundraiser.

Head of communications Ian MacQuillin believes that by showcasing some of the routes into fundraising that others have taken, via face-to-face, the PFRA can improve the perceptions of the job among prospective recruits.

Five years ago, there was little evidence that a few months raising money on the street or door-to-door could land you a job in fundraising, says MacQuillin. Now, however, there is a growing pool of senior fundraisers in the sector that started off as chuggers.

The PFRA intends to chart the career progression of fundraisers such as Katie Blore and Rowena Lewis and use these as case studies to hopefully convince graduates that face-to-face can be a valid and valuable first step. It hopes to use these examples to map a ‘typical career path’, estimating how long one might expect to be chugging before moving up into other roles.