# New code of practice for volunteer fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/01/12/new-code-practice-volunteer-fundraising/
- Published: 2005-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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The Institute of Fundraising has published its first best practice code for volunteer
fundraising.
The Volunteer Fundraising Code, the 22nd developed by the Institute
of Fundraising, has been published at the start of the UK’s Year of the Volunteer
to help organisations manage the 16 million volunteers that fundraise for voluntary
organisations.

It offers guidelines for organisations working with volunteer fundraisers, and differentiates
between volunteers that are acting ‘on behalf of’ an organisation (where the responsibility
lies with the charity) and ‘in aid of’ an organisation (where the responsibility
remains with the volunteer). The Code incorporates tailored guidance for managing
both types of volunteer.

It also covers issues that arise the volunteer carrying out the fundraising is a
celebrity.

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Rob Jackson, Volunteering Development Manager at RNIB and Chair of the Working Party,
said: “This code establishes, for the first time, the standards charities should
follow when working with volunteer fundraisers. With millions of people volunteering
to fundraise for good causes every year, the code is a critical step towards improving
their experience and making them want to come back for more”.

The Code should be used not only by the managers of volunteer fundraisers, but also
by trustees and senior management who will need to establish a volunteer policy 
and to define how their range of volunteer fundraising activities fit within the
definitions laid out within the Code.

The new Volunteer Fundraising Code can be downloaded at no charge from the Institute
of Fundraising’s website, where a template letter containing guidance for ‘in aid
of’ volunteer fundraisers is also available.

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