Fundraising Standards Board's membership reaches 400
Howard Lake | 12 April 2007 | News
Over 400 charities have now joined the Fundraising Standards Board, eight weeks after the scheme was launched to the public.
Jon Scourse, Chief Executive of the Fundraising Standards Board, said: “We now have 420 members including 70 from Scotland. All of the top 20 UK-wide charities have either joined or are in the process of doing do. And our membership now represents over 25% of all voluntary giving in the UK.
He added: “But it is just as important that smaller charities and organisations sign up to high standards in fundraising. Our small charities projects in Hull, West Kent and Fife are doing a fantastic job of encouraging locally based organisations to join.”
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Of the current membership of 420, 340 are based in England, 68 in Scotland and 12 in Wales. Nearly two thirds of the members are charities with less than £1 million voluntary income per annum; over one in five are charities raising between £1 million and £10 million; and 13% raise more than £10 million voluntary income annually.
Scourse said that the next stage of the self-regulatory body’s recruitment campaign would focus on medium-sized organisations and would begin later this year.
He encouraged other charities to join the scheme. “It is vital to the success of the self-regulatory scheme that it has strength in depth and that the whole of the sector is seen to back it,” he said.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.