# Institute of Fundraising publishes unified Code of Practice

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/11/13/institute-fundraising-publishes-unified-code-practice/
- Published: 2012-11-13T14:48:31+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Institute of Fundraising has published its single Code of Fundraising Practice,
which updates and consolidates the 28 individual codes of practice developed over
the years. The new Code is published in print and online, with relevant links.**

The code is designed to allow individuals and fundraising organisations to demonstrate
best pratice, eliminate poor practice and increase public trust and confidence in
the voluntary and community sector.

Launching the Code of Fundraising Practice, Stephen Pidgeon, Chair of the IoF Standards
Committee that initiated and led the development of the new code, said: “I'm immensely
proud that after a year of consultation and hard work by many IoF staff and members
we have reduced the 28 original Codes of Fundraising Practice to one. They were 
long and repetitive, and in some cases contradictory".

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The Code of Fundraising Practice contains the standards that the fundraising community
sets through the work of the Institute of Fundraising’s Standards Committee, as 
well as offering legal guidance in key areas.

It is designed to exhibit four hallmarks – legal, honest, open and respectful.

The [Fundraising Standards Board](http://www.frsb.org.uk) (FRSB) has welcomed the
new Code of Fundraising Practice, against which the FRSB will continue to regulate
fundraising practice. 

Alistair McLean, Chief Executive of the Fundraising Standards Board, said: "The 
fundraising standards set out in the new streamlined Code clearly define what can
and cannot be done when raising money for charity in the UK. It is against these
standards that the FRSB continues to regulate and we welcome the clarifications 
made to guidance within, particularly around cash collections. Within the new Code,
there is a clear focus on the overarching principles that constitute good fundraising
and less ambiguity and duplication from one discipline to another".

[www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/code](http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/code)

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