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Council imposes ban on charity collectors
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"Dear Lucy - As Chief Executive of the PFRA I feel it is necessary to correct a number of serious errors which appear to have crept into your article headlined "Council imposes ban on charity collectors", and as a result of which anyone merely scanning your first few paragraphs would be seriously mis-led. The Council has "banned" nothing. It has updated and formalised, by mutual consent, the informal agreement whereby face-to-face fundraising has been managed and regulated by the PFRA with the council's consent and to the benefit of all Bracknell's residents and visitors, since at least June 2004. This updating of agreements is an ongoing process which the PFRA is undertaking with all its 80+ local authority partners, of which Bracknell is one of the most long-standing and valued, to bring these arrangements into compliance with the anticipated rules of the Charities Act 2006 when it comes into effect in 2010. This work is supported by the Charity Commission, the Office of the Third (Charity) Sector, and the Association of Town Centre Management, and is of enormous benefit to Bracknell Council is lessening their regulatory load - although no-one would gather that from your article unless they ploughed to the bitter end to read the approving comments of Cllr Brunel-Walker. And all of which you could have discovered had you cared to bother to call us for a comment. Which you now have. I would appreciate a correction and apology in due course. "
Posted by , on 10/6/2008 17:37.
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