# Ian MacQuillin joins PFRA

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/11/ian-macquillin-joins-pfra/
- Published: 2009-05-11T12:17:17+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Ian MacQuillin, account director at fundraising PR specialist TurnerPR and a former
editor of Professional Fundraising magazine, has joined the Public Fundraising Regulatory
Association (PFRA) as communications and engagement manager. He will take on the
PR and member services portfolio for the self-regulatory body for face-to-face fundraising(
F2F).**

Ed White, who was operations manager with F2F agency Gift Fundraising, has also 
been appointed by the PFRA. As the new policy and outreach officer, he will support
chief executive Mick Aldridge in negotiations with local authorities and other stakeholders.

They join Nick Henry, who started work at the PFRA as the quality and compliance
officer last month.

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Mick Aldridge said: “This is the new team that is going to steer F2F fundraising
safely though the enactment of the Charities Act and all the regulatory challenges
that we will face in the coming months. This team will allow us to build effectiveness
in our primary role of self-regulation of face-to-face fundraising.”

He added that the new team would also help to widen the influence of face-to-face
fundraising. “Media relations and the public perception of fundraising are often
examined in a street fundraising context”, he said. “When the subject of payment
by results or commission comes up, it’s F2F that’s held up as the paradigm case.
When the sector comes to tackle attrition, it’s donors recruited through F2F that
are focused on first.

“It’s my intention that the new PFRA secretariat will shape F2F’s influence on some
of these wider issues.”

While editor of Professional Fundraising magazine MacQuillin often argued the case
for face-to-face fundraising and for a more informed approach to the debate it generates.
His research included a day spent as a face-to-face fundraiser in London.

White joins [PFRA](http://www.pfra.org.uk) in early May while MacQuillin will start
on 22 June.

 

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   30 June 2009)
 * **[Video interview with PFRA's Mick Aldridge at 29th IFC](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/10/29/video-interview-pfra039s-mick-aldridge-29th-ifc/)**(
   29 October 2009)