HC Deb 17 September 2003 vol 410 cc799-803W
Mr. Sanders

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the organisations that responded, and how they responded, to the idea of self-regulation contained within "Charities and Not-For Profits: A Modern Legal Framework", giving the type of respondent. [129154]

Fiona Mactaggart

The recommendations on self-regulation in fundraising were made by the Strategy Unit in its review of charity law arid regulation ("Private Action, Public Benefit", published September 2002).

In its response to the review ("Charities and Not-for-Profits: a Modern Legal Framework", published 16 July 2003) the Government supported the idea that self-regulation should be the first resort in improving fundraising standards.

The following people and organisations commented on the recommendations on self-regulation in fundraising

  • Action on Disability and Development
  • Action for Street Kids
  • Agents for Change
  • Allen and Overy solicitors
  • Alzheimer's Society
  • Archbishops Council
  • Association of Charitable Foundations
  • Association of Charity Independent Examiners
  • Association of Charity Officers
  • Association of Charity Shops
  • Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations
  • Association of Corporate Trustees
  • Association of Fundraising Consultants
  • Association of Preservation Trusts
  • Baker Tilly accountants
  • Barnardo's
  • Bates, Wells and Braithwaite solicitors
  • Birmingham Voluntary Service Council
  • Birmingham Charities Council
  • Birmingham City Council
  • Black Training and Enterprise Group
  • Blandford Forum Town Council
  • Blue Cross
  • Bristol City Council
  • British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres
  • British Heart Foundation
  • British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association
  • British Overseas Aid Group
  • British Red Cross
  • British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
  • Campaign for Protection of Rural Wales
  • Cancer Research UK
  • Caring Together
  • Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
  • Chantrey Vellacott DFK accountants
  • Charities Aid Foundation
  • Charity Check
  • Charity Commission
  • Charity Law Association
  • Charles Russell solicitors
  • Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management
  • Chesterfield and North-East Derbyshire Council for Voluntary Service
  • Children's Society
  • Christian Aid
  • Church in Wales
  • Community Matters
  • Consumers' Association
  • Countryside Agency
  • Craigmyle
  • Crossroads Association
  • 801W
  • Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council
  • Derby Mountain Rescue Team
  • Development Trusts Association
  • Dicky Tickers Heart Support Group
  • Diocese of St. Asaph, Church in Wales
  • Directory of Social Change
  • Disabilities Trust
  • Duke of Edinburgh's Award
  • Dyson Bell solicitors
  • Ethical Investment Research Service
  • Evelina Family Trust
  • Exeter Council for Voluntary Service
  • Fairbridge
  • Fifth Estate
  • Friends of the Earth and Friends of the Earth Charitable Trust
  • Fruitful Fundraising
  • Grant Thornton accountants
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
  • Growing Place
  • Guideposts Trust
  • Guy's and St. Thomas' Charitable Foundation
  • Help the Aged
  • WH Henderson
  • Home Farm Trust
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
  • Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
  • Institute of Fundraising
  • Jordans
  • Kingston Smith accountants
  • Law Society
  • Leonard Cheshire Foundation
  • Lichfield and District Council for Voluntary Service
  • LionHeart
  • Local Government Association
  • London Play
  • London Voluntary Service Council
  • RJA Lonsdale
  • Macmillan Cancer Relief
  • Marie Curie Cancer Care
  • Mazars accountants
  • Middle Temple Charitable Trusts
  • Roger Morton
  • Motability
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society
  • Muscular Dystrophy Campaign
  • National Association of Independent Schools and Non-Maintained Special Schools
  • National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations
  • National Council for Voluntary Organisations
  • National Library for the Blind
  • National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  • National Trust
  • Northamptonshire ACRE
  • Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
  • Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations
  • Oxfam
  • People's Dispensary for Sick Animals
  • 802W
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Public Fundraising Regulatory Association
  • Purbeck District Council
  • Raise
  • Regional Action West Midlands
  • Reigate and Banstead Borough Council
  • rethink
  • Rose Road Association
  • Royal British Legion
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
  • Royal National Institute of the Blind
  • Royal National Institute for Deaf People
  • Royal National Lifeboat Institute
  • Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  • Runnymede Borough Council
  • Salvation Army
  • Emma Sambrook
  • St. Martins Housing Trust
  • St. Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle
  • Andrew Scadding and Adele Shaw
  • School Library Association
  • Scope
  • SPARKS
  • SSAFA Forces Help
  • Staffordshire Moorlands Council for Voluntary Service
  • Surrey Care Trust
  • Swindon Borough Council
  • University Hospital Birmingham Charities
  • Voluntary Action Camden
  • Voluntary Organisations' Network North East
  • War on Want
  • Warwick District Council for Voluntary Service
  • Welsh Assembly Government
  • Wessex Medical Trust
  • West Midlands Charity Trustees Forum
  • West Somerset District Council
  • Woking Borough Council
  • Women's Aid
  • Women's Royal Voluntary Service
  • Woodland Trust
  • Mamie Woodward
  • WWF-UK
  • Wychavon District Council
  • Julia Wylie solicitor
  • YMCA England
  • Yorkshire Rural Community Council

Levels of support by these respondents for the Strategy Unit's recommendations for self-regulation in fundraising, broken down by type of respondent, are shown in the table:

Type of respondent Clear support Some support Non-committal Some opposition Clear opposition
Small charities 1
Independent schools
Large charities 17 28 1 5 2
Medium charities 7 3 1
Umbrella bodies 13 5 2 1
Others
Charity workers 3 2 1 1
Professional advisers 3 11 1 1 2
Special interest bodies 2 5 2 1
Government 4 1 3 6
Umbrella bodies for small charities 5 3 1 1
Voluntary organisations 3
Social enterprises
Professional bodies 4
Academics
Total 53 65 6 13 15