Fundraising Best Practice
Statement of Guiding Principles for Fundraising
A set of resources, including toolkits, templates and a sample complaints procedure have been developed by the Implementation Group as a useful support for putting the Statement of Guiding Principles for Fundraising into practice in your organisation. These resources will be explained at a series of Fundraising Principles Webinars, the next of which will take place in September.» Learn More
Implementation of the Guiding Principles for Fundraising
The final Feasibility Report published in May 2008 sets out a scheme to develop Codes of Good Practice on the operational and administrative aspects of fundraising by charities and also makes recommendations on bringing this scheme into operation. This includes the setting up of an Implementation Group made up of representatives of the charities sector and the relevant statutory agencies with an independent input to represent donors and also that the Implementation Group should draw on support from professionals specialising in this area (e.g. fundraisers, accounting and legal). Learn about the research that led to the feasibility report.
At the invitation of the Department of Community Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, ICTR has been asked to bring the proposed scheme into operation. The Implementation Group members who had their first meeting on September 8th 2009, have developed a set of web based resources which will be of practical help to organisations implementing the statement.
These resources were presented a seminar in Dublin on January 26th and were formally launched at a seminar in Cork on March 26th 2010. ICTR will present a series of free online educational seminars for the charity sector throughout 2010 that aim to highlight the contents of the Statement of Guiding Principles for Fundraising. The first of these Webinars took place at 10am on June 16th. The next Webinar will take place in September (date to be confirmed). If you would like to join future webinars and are not on our mailing list, please email ictr@ictr.ie.
This is an initiative is funded by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
Regulation of Fundraising - Quick links to Key Reports
Statement of Guiding Principles for Fundraising (PDF 182KB)
Regulation of Fundraising by charities through legislation and codes of practice (PDF 296KB)
Exploring the Irish Fundraising Landscape (PDF 555KB) – a report on the practice and scale of charitable fundraising from the public in Ireland
Click here for full details on the Codes of Practice Research.