The Fundraising Regulator has confirmed the names of the five charities who still have not contributed money to its start-up costs.
Gerald Oppenheim, head of policy at the Fundraising Regulator (pictured), confirmed to Civil Society News that the five charities who still haven’t contributed £15,000 to the costs of starting up the regulator are: the British Museum, MSF UK, the RNIB, the Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese and the Tate.
Oppenheim said that “discussions are ongoing” between the regulator and four of the charities: The British Museum, RNIB, MSF UK and the Westminster Roman Catholic Diocese about contributing in the future.
He said, as things stand, communication between the Tate and the regulator on the issue has effectively ceased.
Civil Society News reported in April that the Tate had effectively refused outright to pay set-up costs for the regulator.
Speaking to Civil Society News after the launch, Lord Grade, interim chair of the FR, said that the regulator “is in discussion with the others and the one that has outright refused; that could be reversible”.
He said it was “a shame” that five charities still had not contributed but said “they’re going to be regulated whether they subscribe to us or not”.
At the launch of the Fundraising Regulator held in London this morning, a list of the 45 charities who have already contributed money to the new independent regulator for charitable fundraising, was published.
Amongst those to have already contributed funding were the British Red Cross, the British Heart Foundation, Macmillan Cancer Support and the National Trust.
The full list has yet to be published on the Fundraising Regulator’s website.
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