# Institute and FRSB welcome complaints about Three Peaks challenge bad practice

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/08/18/institute-and-frsb-welcome-complaints-about-three-peaks-challenge-bad-practice/
- Published: 2010-08-18T11:53:39+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Institute of Fundraising and Fundraising Standards Board are encouraging landowners
to report any charities which contravene best practice guidance when co-ordinating
Three Peaks charity challenge events. The two organisations want to ensure that 
the long-term sustainability of charity challenge events is preserved given that
they raise substantial funds for UK charities.**

Complaints about charity challenge events in the Three Peaks should be referred 
to the Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB) who can then help forward them to the 
relevant charity, assist in resolution and education about specific park requirements
and concerns from local communities.

The Outdoor UK Challenge Events Code provides best practice guidance for charity
fundraisers, including a specific section on the Three Peaks Challenge. The Code
emphasises the importance of preserving the natural environment in areas such as
National Parks, whose beauty needs to be preserved. With these areas under increasing
visitor pressure, land managers and local people are increasingly concerned about
the impact of large scale charity challenge events in and around Ben Nevis, Scafell
Pike and Snowdon.

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Louise Richards, Director of Policy and Campaigns at the Institute of Fundraising,
comments: “In revising our guidance on outdoor fundraising, the Institute wants 
to actively encourage best practice in this area. That is why, in addition to providing
a revised Code to the sector and other stakeholders, we are asking landowners to
refer any examples of bad practice to the Fundraising Standards Board. We feel this
will help raise standards in outdoor fundraising, which remains a popular form of
raising money for charity.”

Alistair McLean, Chief Executive of the Fundraising Standards Board added: “Fundraisers
and volunteers come together to make these events an immensely successful and fun
way of raising money for good causes up and down the country. But it is essential
that participants follow the Institute’s guidance if charities are to continue to
be welcomed by landowners and local residents.”

Complaints can be made to the Fundraising Standards Board at:

www.givewithconfidence.org.uk

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