Our business plans set out the annual objectives that will allow the Fundraising Regulator to achieve the outcomes in our strategic plan. They include information on our budget, governance and staff s...

Work at the Fundraising Regulator to inform and protect the public and support excellent fundraising standards. Our purpose is to make sure that people can have confidence and trust in fundraisers so ...

The scheme of voluntary fundraising regulation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland – delivered by the Fundraising Regulator – is mostly funded through a voluntary levy on charitable fundraising org...

Any organisation that carries out charitable fundraising in England, Wales or Northern Ireland can apply to register with the Fundraising Regulator. Charity registration fees are scaled on the basis o...

Commercial businesses, Community Interest Companies (CICs) and public interest bodies that engage in charitable fundraising can apply to register with the Fundraising Regulator.

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Charities that fundraise in England, Wales and Northern Ireland can apply to register with the Fundraising Regulator. If your charity spends over £100,000 on fundraising each year, we will invite your...

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If you are aware of a known or potential breach of the Code of Fundraising Practice and have the authority to report this on behalf of a charitable fundraising organisation, you can tell the Fundraisi...

We publish our annual reports and accounts, business plans and strategic plans in order to be open and accountable about our work.

The Fundraising Regulator’s Annual Complaints Report presents insights from our casework alongside complaints reported by a sample of the UK’s largest fundraising charities. This report analyses data ...

Are you thinking of donating to or raising funds for a charity? Look out for the Fundraising Badge. When you see it, you can have confidence in a charity’s fundraising.

In 2021 the Fundraising Regulator marks its fifth anniversary of regulating fundraising in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We were set up in 2016 to deliver a new, more visible, approach to regul...

This page lists the updates made to the Code of Fundraising Practice.

Our reporting year 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2020 was like no other. Six months of this report is set during the Coronavirus pandemic, which brought unprecedented challenges to fundraising. This y...

To support charities to understand and meet the fundraising standards, the Fundraising Regulator is producing a series of digestible and informative webinars on the Code of Fundraising Practice.

Our guidance provides advice on best practice in fundraising to protect the public and donors, and support the vital work of fundraisers. Below you can search our detailed guidance resources and acces...

Some charities are breaching the Code of Fundraising Practice by failing to access these requests and suppress people on their marketing databases.

The Code of Fundraising Practice specifies that charities must stop sending direct marketing communications to individuals after an FPS request has been received. If you do not stop these types of com...

The Fundraising Preference Service is a free service, run by the Fundraising Regulator, that can help you or someone you know to end contact with charities that you no longer want to hear from.

The Fundraising Preference Service is a free service, run by the Fundraising Regulator, that can help you or someone you know to end contact with charities that you no longer want to hear from. The...

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