# Professional Fundraising reports on International Congress

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/20/professional-fundraising-reports-international-congress/
- Published: 2003-11-20T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Professional Fundraising’s Web site includes a number of features on last month’s
International Fundraising Congress in Holland.**

 

In “Professional bodies should intervene to stop ratios competition”, the magazine
reports on a workshop at the Congress for fundraising directors which debated whether
the use of fundraising ratios was getting out of hand. The moderator suggested that
a professional body set out ‘professional standards’ on using cost-income ratios
in fundraising publicity that all should abide by.

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In “Consultants complain they have to deal with too many junior staff at charities”,
the magazine reports on a very lively question and answer session “Consultants under
Fire.” The pitch process in particular came in for strong criticism from some of
the consultant delegates, one of whom argued it was it was sometimes little more
than “a free way to find out a lot of thinking without having to pay.”

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   22 October 2004)
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   7 September 2005)
 * **[New Zealand Charity Commission](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/11/new-zealand-charity-commission/)**(
   11 May 2009)

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