Ian MacQuillin joins PFRA
Howard Lake | 11 May 2009 | News
Ian MacQuillin, account director at fundraising PR specialist TurnerPR and a former editor of Professional Fundraising magazine, has joined the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA) as communications and engagement manager. He will take on the PR and member services portfolio for the self-regulatory body for face-to-face fundraising (F2F).
Ed White, who was operations manager with F2F agency Gift Fundraising, has also been appointed by the PFRA. As the new policy and outreach officer, he will support chief executive Mick Aldridge in negotiations with local authorities and other stakeholders.
They join Nick Henry, who started work at the PFRA as the quality and compliance officer last month.
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Mick Aldridge said: “This is the new team that is going to steer F2F fundraising safely though the enactment of the Charities Act and all the regulatory challenges that we will face in the coming months. This team will allow us to build effectiveness in our primary role of self-regulation of face-to-face fundraising.”
He added that the new team would also help to widen the influence of face-to-face fundraising. “Media relations and the public perception of fundraising are often examined in a street fundraising context”, he said. “When the subject of payment by results or commission comes up, it’s F2F that’s held up as the paradigm case. When the sector comes to tackle attrition, it’s donors recruited through F2F that are focused on first.
“It’s my intention that the new PFRA secretariat will shape F2F’s influence on some of these wider issues.”
While editor of Professional Fundraising magazine MacQuillin often argued the case for face-to-face fundraising and for a more informed approach to the debate it generates. His research included a day spent as a face-to-face fundraiser in London.
White joins PFRA in early May while MacQuillin will start on 22 June.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.