Last week I interviewed the face-to-face fundraiser who was dismissed by development charity EveryChild after he left a folder containing donors’ direct debit details on a street in Norwich city centre. The incident sparked an investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office, which enforces the Data Protection Act. But when we met, he had a bigger… Read more »
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Telephone fundraising might not be pleasant – but it works
Charity call centre scandal, screamed a headline in the News of the World last Sunday. The paper had sent an undercover reporter to a training session for callers at telephone fundraising agency Pell and Bales. It accused Pell and Bales of using “shameless tactics” to “generate money from the jobless, frail and even sick.”… Read more »