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SAFEGUARDING THE CHARITY COLLECTION SCENE

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Charity Check also has a newer web site at http://www.charitycollections.org to help you to check whether collections you see are in order, especially direct debit collections.


What does Charity Check do?

Charity Check provides a service mainly to local authorities and owners of retail premises, enabling them to check well in advance that any charity collection they authorise is genuine.
How? By checking, for example, that

1) the charity or cause to benefit is reputable, not merely registered.
2) the collector or organiser genuinely acts for that charity or cause.

Charity Check also provides a service to charities to make it more likely that they will actually receive the proceeds of collections made in their name.

Why is Charity Check necessary?

Because the legal framework and the advice of central government agencies on this subject are not sufficient to prevent fraudulent charity collections.


What validates the Charity Check case?
Written endorsements from many eminent bodies; overwhelming factual evidence; and commendations of Charity Check in:

  • Motions in the House of Commons
  • A similar move at the National Assembly for Wales

Among those who have endorsed, worked for, or helped to publicise the Charity Check system and/or its proposals for reform:
Asda Foundation; Association of London Government; British Retail Consortium; Children's Day; Company of Management Consultants; London Voluntary Service Council; some 230 MPs of various parties or none who have signed one or more of six Commons motions calling for the Charity Check system to be spread comprehensively; most Members of the National Assembly for Wales (90% of back-benchers having signed a Written Statement of Opinion); and the London Assembly which passed a unanimous Motion on 1 Nov 2000.

Charity Check, regd England 3222536, A Company Limited by Guarantee.
Directors: Philip Cowen, John de Metz.
 

 

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