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CLEANING UP THE CHARITY COLLECTION SCENE |
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Messages of support from eminent sources CHARITY CHECK: OUTSIDE VIEWS on its current system and its proposals for legal reform. EXTRACTS : 1. Association of The Association of London Government is keen to encourage the development of a strong charitable sector within the Capital. By ensuring charity cash collections are genuine, Charity Check plays a valuable role, which allows the public to have confidence in this form of fundraising. 2. The Company (formerly Guild) of Management Consultants, For the present and probably the foreseeable future the Charity Check solution is the only one that can be implemented to stem the tide of criminal activity in collecting cash from the public. 3. The London Voluntary Service Council welcomes the Charity Check objectives of preventing bogus charity collections. We are hopeful that this initiative will help create a safer fundraising environment at community level, protecting the generosity of donors and the interests of genuine charities especially the smaller organisations. We look forward to the widespread adoption of the Charity Check scheme. 4. British Retail Consortium, We would be keen to be associated with your objective of preventing bogus charity collections. Clearly, our members wish to be seen to be supporting genuine collections by allow agents and charity day collectors onto their premises. There is an implied approval through that process, which could be damaged if it became widely abused by fraudulent and bogus collectors and charities. As you are aware, we have circulated your "Charity Check" guidelines to all our members and we will certainly be doing our best to ensure that money collected for charity goes where it belongs and where it will be of most benefit.
5. THE TIMES, 1st Dec 1997, Page 43: Surprisingly, the law does not prevent any competent crook from registering or acquiring registered charities. So the onus is on the shop manager to check: but how? Three years ago Charity Check, a private company, was set up to keep a database of references from good sources. Since then Philip Cowen, its director, claims to have prevented many dubious collections from taking place. {The first sentence from this piece in The Times, by Peter Brown, was quoted in COMMONS MOTION 636 of 1997/98} 6. The Guild of Management Consultants (now called The Company of Management Consultants), Letter to Charity Check 18th Dec 1997: The direct approach you are advocating would appear to be a solitary, but
vital, factor in the short-term to reduce the number of opportunities
for fraudulent 'charities' to operate successfully 'off-street'. In the
longer-term your complementary attack to enable improved legislation to be
introduced would seem to be admirable. From the Chair of the Guild's Charities Committee. 7. Somerfield Stores Ltd, Message from
the Head of Public Relations to Charity Check, Note from Charity Check: Much of this messsage is now out of date, but for reference its significance was mentioned in Commons Motion 17 of 1998/99. LINKS : SUPPORTERS : Among those who have endorsed, worked for, or helped to publicise the Charity Check system and/or its proposals
for reform: Charity Check, regd
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