Charity Commission website automated responses

Finbar Cullen | 21 May 2012 | Blogs

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Am I just being picky, or is it worth asking the Charity Commission to include a note of the subject when they issue automated responses to email enquiries via their website?

I occasionally email the Charity Commission about a number of charities on any given day. The automated response system gives absolutely no indication what enquiry the response relates to. I therefore don’t know if they have actually received the enquiry until c two weeks later, when a proper reply should be issued.

Anyway, I have started to ask them to tweak their system, to see if they can make things clearer. I have not yet received a detailed response, and don’t know if I have received an automated response. Hmm …

Feel free to add your support to this request, if you are that way inclined.

Finbar Cullen

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About Finbar Cullen
Finbar Cullen established ResearchPlus in 2005 to provide fundraising research services for the not-for-profit sector. He researches people, companies and grant-making trusts and foundations, mostly in the UK, but also other parts of the world. Finbar has published directories of “unpublished” grant-making trusts (registered with the Charity Commission and with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator), and each month he contributes to The Trust List, highlighting newly registered grant-making trusts worthy of particularly close attention.