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Press Releases

This page contains latest PFRA press releases. For media enquiries, contact Ian MacQuillin, PFRA's head of communications (out of office hours on 07917 783207).

28/11/12

LGA and PFRA launch new national agreement to improve street fundraising standards

07/09/12

IoF, FRSB and PFRA joint statement on clarification of roles

19/08/12

New rules and penalties for street fundraisers come into effect (national media release)

19/08/12

New fines system for street fundraisers comes into effect (charity media press release)

06/08/12

PFRA announces appointment of new chief executive

16/07/12

PFRA welcomes Lord Hodgson’s Charities Act review proposals

19/06/12

PFRA members record most successful year ever

13/04/12

PFRA submission to Hodgson review recommends bringing doorstep fundraising into licensing regime

06/03/12

New controls for fundraising in Glasgow relieve pressure on city centre with new sites in suburbs

25/01/12

PFRA appoints Paul Stallard as chair

24/10/11

Mick Aldridge steps down as PFRA ceo

17/10/11

New rules and quality compliance programme come into effect for doorstep F2F

23/09/11

Statement on Wolverhampton City Council

22/08/11

PFRA introduces new rules and penalties regime for street face-to-face fundraising

07/07/11

Alan Gosschalk is the first senior fundraiser to join the face-to-face advocacy programme

01/07/11

Leading fundraising experts to act as advocates for face-to-face fundraising

22/06/11

Donor Attrition and Retention Survey 2011 shows F2F attrition rates returning to pre-recession level

21/06/11

PFRA members record second most successful year ever for face-to-face donations

18/03/11

Call for other types of fundraising to follow PFRA’s attrition lead at launch of DARS 2011

17/02/11

Manchester signs agreement to regulate street fundraising

12/01/11

Prospecting to be fully integrated into PFRA levy and allocations procedures

16/09/10

PFRA and Norwich City Council set new controls on fundraisers

06/09/10

Gift Fundraising to trial ‘team leader armbands’  for PFRA in London

28/07/10

International Fundraising Congress to host discussions on ‘internationalising’ F2F best practice

22/06/10

Third PFRA attrition and retention survey reveals doorstep attrition lowest for six years

15/06/10

PFRA announces sign-up figures for street and door F2F during 2009/10

09/06/10

PFRA and TSI announce joint initiative to map cold calling control zones

12/05/10

Senior police officers seek to improve ‘sensitivity’ of neighbourhood policing of F2F

10/02/10

PFRA to advise members on policies for fundraising within Cold Calling Control Zones

12/01/10

PFRA seeks ‘core group’ to report five-year attrition/retention data

12/01/10

UK’s face-to-face self-regulator opens its annual attrition survey to charities around the world

02/09/09

Working party consults on how to tackle ‘rogue fundraisers’

24/08/09

Self-regulatory bodies urge charity research centre to invest more in fundraising matters

10/08/09

PFRA sets up working party to look at approved register of fundraisers

06/07/09

Communications with F2F-recruited donors are as critical to attrition levels as how they are signed

25/06/09

Liberal Democrat MP Martin Horwood calls for more public support for F2F from senior fundraisers

24/06/09

Senior police officers seek to improve ‘sensitivity’  of neighbourhood policing of F2F

22/06/09

PFRA reveals sign-ups through face-to-face fundraising increased by 16 per cent during 2008/09