Commercial Participators, Professional Fundraisers, Sponsorship
Commercial Participators, Professional Fundraisers, Sponsorship
- Commercial Participator Agreement (Product Promotion – Three Parties)
- Commercial Participator Agreement (Non-Product Promotion – Three Parties)
- Commercial Participator Agreement (Product Promotion – Two Parties)
- Commercial Participator Agreement (Non-Product Promotion – Two Parties)
- Charity Event Commercial Sponsorship Agreement
- Professional Fundraiser Agreement (Individual Donors)
- Professional Fundraiser Agreement (Organisations)
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a commercial participator and a professional fundraiser?
Who is doing what for money. A commercial participator is a business promoting its own goods or services on the basis that some of the price benefits your charity, think charity-branded products. A professional fundraiser is paid to raise funds for you as their service, soliciting donations from individuals or organisations. Both relationships are regulated by the Charities Act 1992 and both need compliant written agreements, but the prescribed content differs, which is why this sub-folder has separate agreement sets.
What must our agreement with a commercial participator or professional fundraiser contain?
The prescribed essentials: the parties and the venture, how long it runs, how the charity's share or the fundraiser's remuneration is calculated, and arrangements protecting the public from unreasonably persistent or pressured approaches. An agreement missing prescribed content leaves the fundraising unlawful, the charity cannot simply waive the defect. The templates here are built around the statutory requirements in product and non-product, two and three party variants, so the compliance is structural rather than remembered.
What do customers legally have to be told when a business fundraises for us?
A solicitation statement at the point of solicitation: the charity's name and, for a commercial participator, the notifiable amount, in practice how much per sale or in total goes to the charity, stated clearly rather than buried. Where the representation is made remotely, by phone for example, and someone pays 100 pounds or more, a written statement must follow within seven days. Vague per-sale claims like profits go to charity fail the requirement. The agreements here carry compliant statement wording.
A company wants to sponsor our fundraising event. Is that the same as commercial participation?
Not necessarily, and the difference decides your paperwork. Pure sponsorship, money in exchange for branding and hospitality at your event, is a commercial arrangement documented by a sponsorship agreement. It becomes commercial participation when the sponsor represents to the public that buying its products or services benefits the charity. Many deals mix both, so check what the sponsor will say publicly before choosing documents. The event sponsorship agreement sits alongside the participator agreements here for exactly that reason.