It will be the country’s most comprehensive self-regulatory system of fundraising oversight, explains Peter Hills-Jones. The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association’s proposed member accreditation programme is designed to achieve two significant things. First, ensuring that all face-to-face (F2F) fundraisers receive a minimum level of training before they go onto the streets or door-to-door. Delivered online and able to be completed on fundraisers’ mobile devices, it’s a modern response to the challenge of a large, ever-changing and highly dispersed workforce. This will be backed up by a new push to observe our members’ training sessions. We recognise that the PFRA needs to become more of an ‘upstream’ regulator – identifying issues and…
