# When is a consultant a ‘professional fundraiser’?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/02/17/when-consultant-professional-fundraiser/
- Published: 2008-02-17T20:25:07+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

No jokes today – the Institute of Fundraising is just launching its Code of Practice
for Consultants, which expertly sets out just when a consultant becomes a ‘professional
fundraiser’ under the new Charities Act. See www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk.

The code also tackles difficult questions such as; just what a consultant / professional
fundraiser must do during a personal ‘ask’.

To my mind, as a consultant, this is required reading; and I hope it will also be
read by my clients and prospective clients. It’s not often you can say that about
a code of practice!

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How many consultants does it take to change a lightbulb? Hmm must be in the code
somewhere…

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