NCVO has invited charities to a summit about the future of fundraising regulation to be held on 4 December.

A letter from Sir Stuart Etherington (pictured) to the 50 largest fundraising charities in the UK said that the summit will take place at NCVO between 10.30 and 13.00 on Friday 4 December and will be attended by Rob Wilson, minister for civil society and by William Shawcross, chair of the Charity Commission.

In the letter, Etherington wrote: “I understand this is relatively short notice. However I hope you will appreciate that we considered it most important to arrange this summit as soon as possible, in order that progress can quickly be made”.

Civil Society News contacted the Cabinet Office to ask whether or not the new chair of the Fundraising Regulator would be in attendance. A spokesman from the Cabinet Office refused to comment, or to confirm when the identity of the chair would be made public.

The summit was first proposed by Sir Stuart in his Regulating Fundraising for the Future report, which was published in September and was commissioned by Rob Wilson.

The summit will outline how the recommendations in the Etherington Review will be put into practice: including how the FRSB will be closed down, how the new regulator will be structured and funded, how the transfer of the Code of Fundraising Practice will be transferred from the IoF to the new ethics committee within the independent regulator and how the proposed Fundraising Preference Service will work.

Etherington said that the new Fundraising Regulator should be in place “within six months” of the review being published.

According to the letter, the summit will also be live streamed online and a recording made for those who are unable to attend.