The Institute of Fundraising has confirmed ongoing delays in its application for chartered status with the Privy Council, a year on from an informal approach being rebuffed due to the state of the fundraising sector.
An IoF spokesman today confirmed that no further formal approaches have been made by the organisation to the Privy Council regarding its pursuit of chartered status for fundraising since last year.
He said that an informal memorandum was made to the Privy Council in the early part of spring last year. The Privy Council announced in November 2015 that it would postpone making a decision about the IoF’s application until the recommendations of the Etherington Review had been fully implemented; and the organisation had completed its then mooted merger with the Public Fundraising Association.
In the last year, the Fundraising Regulator has been set up and has launched, the FRSB had been dissolved, and the merger between the IoF and PFRA was completed in late August of this year – all key recommendations in the Etherington Review.
Ownership of the Code of Fundraising Practice and the rulebook for face-to-face fundraising have also passed on to the Fundraising Regulator.
The IoF wouldn’t confirm whether or not the body would be seeking to make a fresh application for chartered status in 2017, but did say it remained “an aspiration of the Institute”, and something that it would continue “working towards”.
The Institute of Fundraising first indicated that it was looking to attain chartered status for the fundraising profession in 2012.
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