Plans for new regulation of fundraising should be halted until a consultation can be held on the effect on smaller charities, local infrastructure body Navca said today.

Neil Cleeveley, chief executive of Navca, has said he is “angry” that the consequences of “large charities behaving badly”, are being borne by “all charities rather than those responsible”.

Navca believe that no further steps towards implementing the proposals in the Etherington Review should take place until there has been consultation with smaller charities.

Currently, only 50 of the largest fundraising charities have been invited to attend the review of self-regulation which is being held tomorrow at NCVO’s offices. The Small Charities Coalition will be attending.

Cleeveley referred to a blog post by Peter Lewis, chief executive of the Institute of Fundraising, which said that these plans must consider the “full range of fundraising organisations”. Cleeveley said that this was a “crucial point”, and not “currently the case”.   

He said: “Smaller charities have been swept up without any consideration and Navca members, who work with smaller charities day in and day out, feel that at no point have their views been considered.”

“As a result, we currently have plans that could do serious harm to many small and medium-sized local charities, many already under considerable pressure. These proposals should be halted until the implications for smaller charities are fully considered.”

A spokesman for NCVO, whose chief executive led the review which proposed establishing a new regulator, said his organisation agrees the regulator should be talking to charities of all sizes as it establishes its new processes.

The IoF and the Small Charities Coalition last month announced a joint initiative to “engage smaller charities” over fundraising reforms after protests that they were excluded from a summit meeting.

The meeting on the future of fundraising regulation will be streamed live on NCVO’s website from 11am tomorrow.