A new report conducted by Charity Aid, who represent volunteer fundraisers, has found that chugging (short for charity mugging), the practice by paid professionals of stopping people in the street to ask for charity donations, is the worst and most damaging form of charity fundraising there has ever been.
Charity Aid asked every council in the country about chugging and the responses revealed that many councils regard chugging as “aggressive harassment” of the public. They want to ban it but the government doesn’t.
Peter Quinn, Charity Aid’s chairman, said: “Chuggers now siphon off more than the first £100 of a donor’s money – without telling them this. These parasites now take over £100m a year from donations which were intended for charity.
“They’ve brought words like intimidation and hard sell into what used to be a noble calling. Volunteer groups are unanimous in opposing it and some have disbanded in protest.”
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