Don't let fundraising dent trust, warns standards board

By Hannah Jordan, Third Sector Online, 21 May 2008

The Fundraising Standards Board has warned charities to carefully consider their fundraising techniques or risk damaging relationships with their donors. The warning comes in response to the Charity Commission report Public Trust and Confidence in Charities 2008, published today.

The research reveals that 50 per cent of respondents feel charities are using more dubious fundraising techniques, despite a slight overall rise of public trust in charities in the past three years. On a scale of 0 to 10 the sector scored 6.6 on the issue of public trust compared...

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