- Agreement between the Commonwealth and the states and territories
- What will happen next?
- The 16 National Fundraising Principles
Note
Until new fundraising laws are passed, the existing state and territory based laws apply.
Representatives of a charity
In the principles below, ‘representatives’ means a charitable organisation’s employees, volunteers, contractors, and anyone else who the organisation engages or arranges to raise funds on its behalf.
- the purpose of the charity, and
- the purpose to which the funds raised will be applied,
- the individual’s name
- whether they are a volunteer, employee or acting in some other capacity for a charitable organisation or commercial fundraising organisation, and
- that organisation’s name and contact details
- refusal to make a donation
- request not to receive future solicitations (including marketing and promotional materials)
- request to be contacted at a more convenient time or by a different means
- request to limit the number, type or frequency of solicitations
- before 9am or after 5pm on a weekend
- before 9am or after 6pm (door-to-door) or 8pm (telephone) on a weekday
- on a public holiday, unless the public holiday is closely connected with a fundraiser’s charitable purpose.
- place undue or unreasonable pressure on a person when fundraising, or
- act unconscionably in any way to obtain a donation
- make it clear whether a donation is a one-off or an ongoing donation, and
- clearly explain how to end an ongoing donation
- allows for proper investigation and redress of fundraising complaints that may be made by the public, and
- encourages anyone with concerns about a fundraising activity conducted by or on behalf of the charity to contact them
Our campaign to #FixFundraising
These long-awaited changes are the result of Justice Connect’s decade-long #FixFundraising campaign, which urged lawmakers to reform Australia’s out of date and ineffective web of existing fundraising laws. Justice Connect’s Not-for-Profit Law program has been leading this campaign, alongside a coalition of eight peak bodies, and with the support of thousands of Australia’s most trusted and effective charities.
