# Door-to-door recruitment down 14% but street recruitment up, PFRA reveals - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/27/door-door-recruitment-14-street-recruitment-pfra-reveals/ - Published: 2016-06-27T07:53:39+01:00 - Author: Melanie May **Door to door recruitment fell by 14% in the year to March 2016, while overall donor recruitment fell by 8% according to figures in PFRA’s [annual report for 2015/16](http://www.pfra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/3028-PFR-Annual-Report-2015-proof8.pdf).**   769,750 people donated last year through face-to-face fundraising, while the year saw PFRA members recruit a total of 594,000 donors through door-to-door. This figure was down 94,000 from 688,000 the previous year, with London seeing the biggest change with a fall of 28%. The report also reveals that 98% of donors recruited door-to- door were signed up by external provider teams: up 9% on the previous year. ## Advertisement   Street fundraising recruitment rose by 15%, by 23,000 to 176,000, with just 40% of donors signed up via this method being recruited by external provider teams. This has also risen however, by 5% on the previous year.   The report also includes a breakdown of rule breaches made by PFRA members. The most were non-compliant solicitation statements, at 32%. This was followed by “other” breaches, which accounted for 27%; distance visibility at 12%, proximity to street features at 11%, with breaches in relation to the three-step rule and site delineation accounting for 9% each.   Statistics in the report on site management agreements (SMAs) show that 116 are now in place across the UK. 84% of local authorities surveyed said their SMA had been successful, with 65% of councils seeing a decrease in complaints since their SMA had been implemented, and 89% saying they would recommend them to other local authorities. * **[Fundraising Media DNA 2016/17: effectively targeting different age groups](https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/09/01/fundraising-media-dna-201617-effectively-targeting-different-age-groups/)**( 1 September 2016) * **[Street fundraising agreement gets the go ahead in Birmingham](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/05/03/street-fundraising-agreement-gets-go-ahead-birmingham/)**( 3 May 2017) * **[Street fundraising breaches continue to fall says IoF](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/06/07/street-fundraising-breaches-continue-fall-says-iof/)**( 7 June 2017) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)