# Fundraising Standards Board launches new recruitment campaign

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/01/12/fundraising-standards-board-launches-new-recruitment-campaign/
- Published: 2009-01-12T11:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

![(l-r) Elaine Stallard - FRSB Director; Kevin Brennan - Minister for the Third 
Sector; Michael Dent – Relationship Development Manager, WRVS](https://www.fundraising.
co.uk/files/u11/kevin_brennan_elaine_stallard_michael_dent.jpg "(l-r) Elaine Stallard-
FRSB Director; Kevin Brennan - Minister for the Third Sector; Michael Dent – Relationship
Development Manager, WRVS")

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.

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[WRVS](http://www.wrvs.org.uk), whose Relationship Development Manager, Michael 
Dent is the current Institute of Fundraising fundraiser of the year, has recently
joined.

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.

 [⌊FRSB recruitment campaign advert⌉](http://www.frsb.org.uk)

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