The Institute of Fundraising has developed the Codes of Fundraising Practice and Code of Conduct to provide a guide to the law and best practice in relation to fundraising activity throughout the United Kingdom.
The Code of Conduct guides fundraisers as to the standards they should aspire to in all aspects of their careers while the Codes of Fundraising Practice represent the standards for specific areas of fundraising.
Each Code of Fundraising Practice covers a separate fundraising technique and provides not only information on areas of the law and guidance on the techniques themselves, but also the best practice that the fundraising sector has set itself.
Fundraising organisations have a duty of care to ensure that the trust invested in the voluntary and community sector by the public is maintained.
The Institute believes that developing and encouraging standards in fundraising is the key to achieving this. The Institute urgea all fundraising organisations to adopt the Codes and commit to the their standards.
The Codes are continually evolving and the Institute actively welcomes challenges to content and to gaps in the series of the Codes. Without feedback and comment, the Codes cannot be kept up-to-date.
Contact the Policy Team about the Codes.
The Institute of Fundraising also endorses the International Statement of Ethical Principles in Fundraising. This isa set of values and standards for the global fundraising community unanimously approved by 24 countries in October 2006.
Read the International Statement of Ethical Principles in Fundraising.
