# Evening Standard notes fewer face-to-face fundraisers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/23/evening-standard-notes-fewer-facetoface-fundraisers/
- Published: 2004-12-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Evening Standard reports that “now the face-to-face fundraisers – called chuggers,
short for charity muggers – seem to have almost vanished” from central London’s 
streets.
In an article entitled “Decline of the chuggers” Flora Stubbs claims that“
a string of UK charities have stopped using chuggers after a public backlash”. She
says that “Cancer Research UK, the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace have taken
fundraisers off London’s streets”.

 

 

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The Evening Standard’s coverage of face-to-face fundraising in London has included
claims that some fundraisers did not follow the relevant code of practice, but it

 

has seldom acknowledged the research that demonstrates that it can be a cost-effective
and far less controversial fundraising tool than popularly believed.

 

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