Fundraising Standards Board launches new recruitment campaign
Howard Lake | 12 January 2009 | News
The Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) has today launch a recruitment campaign to encourage more organisations to join the self-regulatory scheme. The campaign is being backed by the Minister for the Third Sector, Kevin Brennan and his office with an additional grant of £100,000.
WRVS, whose Relationship Development Manager, Michael Dent is the current Institute of Fundraising fundraiser of the year, has recently joined.
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Dent explained: "Like many organisations, WRVS has always intended to join the FRSB but last year, we never quite got around to it. Yet we know that it is vital for the whole sector – and especially charities like us that depend hugely on the public to fund our work – to sign up to self regulation.
"That’s why we made it our New Year’s Resolution to join and are encouraging everyone else who has put off joining until tomorrow to do the same".
The Minister said: "I have every confidence that more organisations across the third sector will follow WRVS’s lead and become members of the Fund Raising Standards Board tick scheme. This little blue tick allows the public to give with confidence, and in these difficult times that is very, very important. The Government is proud to support this campaign and I urge organisations to become members."
FRSB has revamped its website, offering an expanded members area, and organisations can now join online.
The campaign runs until the end of Spring 2009 and focuses on the benefits that membership offers. Its key messages are that FRSB membership enables organisations to ‘fundraise with confidence’ and ‘increase their fundraising potential’.
The FRSB is hoping that it will in particular convince those charities that raise over a million pounds from the public to join.
www.frsb.org.uk
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