Our Commitment to Good Fundraising
We’re committed to good fundraising to support the amputee community in Scotland, and we’re proud to wear this badge.
Finding Your Feet help families affected by amputation or limb absence with activities, services and support to benefit fitness, mental health and personal growth. We believe that forming relationships with peers and being part of a group is one of the most powerful ways to reduce isolation, which has been proven to be a contributing factor to life expectancy in the amputee community. Our goal as a charity is to be on hand with some form of support or opportunity for every amputee in Scotland.
This is why we have good fundraising practices to ensure that some of the most vulnerable in our communities get the vital support they need and deserve, and our fundraisers know how their money is being spent to help us keep this up.
The Code of Fundraising Practice
The following section is taken from the Fundraising Regulator’s website to show give a brief intro about what our good fundraising guarantee entails. If you’d like any more details about how the Fundraising Regulator determine the organisations that can proudly wear this badge, you can check our their full “Code of Fundraising Practice” here.
The Code of Fundraising Practice (the code) sets out the responsibilities that apply to fundraising carried out by charitable institutions and third-party fundraisers in the UK. For the purposes of the code, fundraising means to ask for money or other property for charitable, benevolent or philanthropic purposes, and it covers a wide range of fundraising methods.
The code was initially developed by fundraisers through the work of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CIoF) and the Public Fundraising Association (PFRA). We have been responsible for the code since 7 July 2016.
The code aims to:
- promote a consistent, high standard of fundraising;
- make sure charitable institutions, their governing bodies and fundraisers know what is expected of them;
- set out the standards we use when considering complaints;
- provide a benchmark for organisations and fundraisers to assess their practices against so they can identify necessary training and monitor and set policy priorities for their fundraising; and
- develop a culture of honesty, openness and respect between fundraisers and the public.
The following four values support all standards in the code.
Legal:Â All fundraising must meet the requirements of the law.
Open:Â Fundraisers must be open with the public about their processes and must be willing to explain (where appropriate) if they are asked for more information.
Honest:Â Fundraisers must act with integrity and must not mislead the public about the cause they are fundraising for or the way a donation will be used.
Respectful:Â Fundraisers must demonstrate respect whenever they have contact with any member of the public.