Report tells charities to crack down on plague of chuggers

That's the Sunday Telegraph headline today.

The publication of the document, which includes 113 recommendations for change, adds to growing pressure on charities following a Sunday Telegraph investigation into street fundraisers, known as 'chuggers’, which showed how the public was lied to, and how rules - and even the law - were broken.

Lord Hodgson, the Tory peer who has compiled the 159-page report, told The Sunday telegraph that some high streets were “becoming suffocated with chuggers” and that face-to-face fundraising needed to be conducted in an “orderly and appropriate way”.

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