Stone Town Council is looking to limit the activity of street fundraisers – chuggers – on the High Street.
Th town council has worked with the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association to put together a site management agreement. It will be discussed by members of the council’s tourism and town promotion sub-committee on Tuesday (15th December).
If signed, the agreement would see fundraisers only allowed to operate in the High Street on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
There would be a maximum of three fundraisers spread along the High Street and only one charity could be represented on any one day, from 9am to 7pm.
[box type=”shadow” ]The site management agreement also states: “Fundraisers should be positioned in such a way as to offer an adequate ‘comfort zone’ to those users of the public highway who do not wish to engage. In furtherance of this, it is desirable that a minimum footway channel of 1 metre be maintained between fundraisers and the kerb / shop frontage where it is reasonable to do so. Fundraisers should maintain a reasonable distance (of approximately 3 metres) apart from one another and any other legitimate street activities.”[/box]
The agreement is still in a draft form and could change after the sub-committee meeting on Tuesday.
If signed, it would take around eight weeks for it to come into force.
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Eric
They don’t work. Organisations like Greenpeace just ignore them. As for the “comfort zone” chuggers just end up shouting after you. I’m constantly shouted after by Greenpeace chuggers. When I complained to Gteenpeace about their rude and bullying behaviour they couldn’t tell me of their own complaints process, staff kept referring me to different agencies – in the end I escalated it to their Supporter Care Manager: Carolyn Hoskins who admitted there was a “training need” amongst her staff. Although she couldn’t tell me who to contact about the booking of pitches and told me that she had told her “third party” agency to expect a call from me. She was so ambiguous in her correspondence I had to call in the Fundraising Standards Board to liaise with her and reassure me she hadn’t broken the Data Protection Act. Greenpeace are now claiming That to shout at people is an “informal approach”. The while system just doesn’t work.