# Face-to-face with fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/01/14/facetoface-fundraising-193/
- Published: 2002-01-14T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Ian Tucker at The Guardian knows just how effective face-to-face fundraisers are,
but he still doesn’t like them “cluttering-up the pavement.” Charity used to begin
at home, ” he muses. “Now it begins on the streets.”

 

 

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Ian Tucker at The Guardian knows just how effective face-to-face fundraisers are,
but he still doesn’t like them “cluttering-up the pavement.” Charity used to begin
at home, ” he muses. “Now it begins on the streets.”

 

 

 

 

After talking to the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association and Greenpeace’s 
marketing and fundraising director he realises that “charities aren’t backing down…
so be prepared for the onslaught.”

 

 

 

 

Read ‘Spare a minute for child poverty?’ by Ian Tucker at SocietyGuardian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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