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V28-532 : HOUSE TO HOUSE COLLECTION PERMIT, NATIONAL TELEPHONE TEAM

The report of the Chief Executive detailed an approach by the National Telephone Team to carry out direct approach fund-raising. This was a similar form of fund-raising to the preceding item, but was carried out house to house instead of on the public highway.

The National Telephone Team, a wholly owned subsidiary of registered charity Action Aid, wished to carry out fund-raising under Action Aid's Exemption Certificate made under Section 3 of the House to House Collections Act 1939. Organisations holding an exemption certificate were not required to ask permission to carry out a house to house collection, but had to inform the Local Authority when they planned to make a collection so that organisations without a certificate could be fitted around them. The Council's Legal Section had advised that in that case, it was Action Aid who should have made the application.

Similar detailed information to the preceding item was reported at the meeting, along with the views of other Local Authorities, who had allowed this sort of collection.

RESOLVED

1. That the National Telephone Team be written to and advised that this authority considers the application for a House to House Collection Permit should be from Action Aid, as holders of an exemption certificate, and asking to view a copy of the certificate, to ensure it is appropriate in this area.

2. That the Chief Executive write to the Voluntary and Community Unit at the Home Office seeking their views on this type of fund-raising.


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