# Community Foundation for Manchester won’t be using face-to-face fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/01/community-foundation-manchester-won039t-be-using-facetoface-fundraising/
- Published: 2012-05-01T21:55:37+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Community Foundation of Manchester is the latest charity to poke fun at face-
to-face fundraising as it indicates that it would not use this method for its Forever
Manchester campaign.

Its humorous video presents Manchester’s Market Street as filled with irritating
street fundraisers, mostly carrying out face-to-face fundraising, but there is also
a traditional collector with a bucket.

The full video then goes on to suggest that that the Foundation is different and
relevant to Mancunians. Note however that the closing fundraising image is of a 
coin being put into a traditional collecting box.

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Its welcome email message says “we wanted to show you exactly what our charity is
about . . . and also what it isn’t.”

The [Community Foundation](http://www.forevermanchester.com/video) is not alone.
Quite a few charities and fundraising companies publicly criticise face-to-face 
fundraising. Some argue that it is not appropriate for them, while others suggest
that charities are wrong to use this method of fundraising. Very few other fundraising
methods are treated this way by charity sector organisations, even those that generate
considerably higher numbers of complaints from the public.

 * **[Forever Manchester Backwards Run 2012](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/05/15/forever-manchester-backwards-run-2012/)**(
   15 May 2012)
 * **[First World Problems Anthem](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/10/08/first-world-problems-anthem/)**(
   8 October 2012)
 * **[Sexual health charity FPA’s 12 Sexy Days of Christmas](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/12/04/sexual-health-charity-fpa039s-12-sexy-days-christmas/)**(
   4 December 2012)

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