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Mr F complained about the behaviour of a charity street fundraiser, who he said was also blocking a public walkway.

Mr W used an online giving platform to organise a race to raise money for a town in Africa. His intention was to organise the race every year until the local people could organise it instead.
He agreed with a charity that the money raised would be given to them, and that the charity would then pass money to him each year as needed. But he’s now in a disagreement with the charity about what should happen to the money raised.

Mr Z entered a charity’s lottery and won a one-of-a-kind item but found that the certificate of authenticity had a laser printed signature. He said this could reduce the value of the item and felt he was misled into entering the lottery.

Mr Y received a charity clothing collection bag from an agency working for a charity, despite having a ‘no charity bag’ sign on his door.

Mr and Mrs R’s son is a member of a local charitable sports club. The club asked Mr and Mrs R to raise £800 so they could send a team to a sporting event. But Mr and Mrs R thought this amount was more than they needed.

Mr P complained that a fundraising event he attended in aid of a charity was a “rip-off”.

A charity was showing only the Gift Aid entry price to an event on their website, and not the Standard entry price. Mr N found this to be “misleading” because visitors would expect to pay the higher price.

Mr M complained about disturbing messaging on the outside of a charity's mailing. Despite asking the charity to remove his details from its database, the charity continued to contact him.

A charity failed to verify the identity of a volunteer that visited Mr L’s property collecting sponsorship money on their behalf.

Mr K said his father asked a charity to remove his mother from its mailing list as she now lives in a care home, but Mr K’s father was added to its database instead.

Mrs J complained that a charity was selling a product on the basis that “all proceeds” would go to them, and that this was false and misleading.

Mr H complained two charity fundraisers were pressurising members of the public to donate. He said they became aggressive when asked questions about the charity’s work, and wouldn’t confirm how much of the money being raised went to the charity.

After complaining to a charity about unwanted emails in 2015, Mr G then received unwanted fundraising text messages from them in 2016.

Mr D complained about lottery fundraisers who were selling prize draw tickets. He felt that the fundraisers were aggressive and very misleading.

Mr U complained to a charity because he thought they were making exaggerated statements in one of their campaigns. He wasn’t satisfied with their response.

Miss A applied for a job with a charity, which then added her to its donor mailing list. When she asked them to stop and to remove her personal details, she said her request was ignored.

After cancelling his regular donation to a charity, Mr C kept getting telephone fundraising calls from them – despite telling them he didn’t want to hear from them again.