Some collection is taking place in the Netherlands. Every week there is an organization that goes door to door with a collection box. Thousands of volunteers are working on it. The province of Friesland is the most generous province, according to figures from the Central Bureau of Fundraising (CBF). The municipality of Urk emerges as the most generous municipality. But how does that work? Can anyone just collect money at the door? Don’t you need a permit for that?
Collection and collecting
An organization that wants to organize a collection is not allowed to do so without further ado. Collecting is subject to rules and permits. A permit must be applied for at the town hall or city hall for the municipality where you want to go door to door with a collection box. There are also municipalities that have canceled this permit in the context of deregulation.
The Central Bureau of Fundraising Foundation (CBF) determines an annual schedule so that the various collections are reasonably distributed throughout the year. The funds that raise money for charities only receive a permit for the period allocated to them in the schedule. There are still a few free periods left in the year, which are available for other collections.
Collecting without a permit
Collecting without a permit is possible and allowed, as long as it is in a closed circle. Collecting for a specific purpose during a party attended by only invited guests is always possible without a permit.
Not on Sunday
No municipality issues a collection permit for a Sunday. That is an agreement that the Collecteplan Foundation and the CBF have made. Institutions that want to collect can register with the Collection Plan Foundation, which has drawn up a collection protocol. The protocol must ensure that collection is carried out correctly and with the correct collection resources and combats fraud.
CBF – Central Bureau Fundraising Foundation
CBF’s full name is the Central Bureau Fundraising Foundation. The organization was founded in 1925. At that time the name was the Central Archives and Information Bureau Foundation for Social Assistance for the Netherlands. The current name dates from 1989.
The purpose of the CBF is described as follows: “The foundation aims to promote the recruitment and expenditure of funds in the Netherlands – including monies obtained from gambling license holders as referred to in the Gambling Act. – by and for charitable, cultural, scientific or other legal entities aimed at public benefit and the information provided by them in that context is carried out in a responsible manner. It does this both in the interest of the public and in the interest of the legal entities involved.”
Tasks CBF
The CBF has several tasks:
- develop regulations
- check whether the rules are being followed
- gather fundraising information
- Provide information
CBF approval
The CBF assesses the goals and, if approved, includes them in the register of charities.
The CBF records the assessments in quality marks:
- CBF quality mark for charities
- CBF Certificate for small charities
- Certificate of no objection
Collection box
The collector can be recognized by his collection box. They are made of tin and plastic, with a sturdy handle for the collector and a spacious slot through which the money can be slid. The PIN collection box will be introduced in 2017, a collection box with a built-in PIN device. No coins at home? No worries. Just pay with the collector’s card and you’re done. Contactless payment at the collector is only possible for purposes recognized by the CBF.
Generous
CBF annually announces the figures for revenues per fund and how much has been given per household, municipality, province and throughout the country. The figures show that smaller municipalities give more per household than large ones. The smallest municipalities, fewer than 2,500 inhabitants, give the most. In 2013, the Dutch gave 2.31 per person. That’s less than two years earlier. Then 2.68 per Dutch person was put in the collection box.
In 2011, the Frisians gave most generously to the various collections spread throughout the year. Of all municipalities, Urk is the largest filler of the collection box.
Three Wadden Islands are among the top 50 municipalities where the most money is given at the door. Ameland and Texel are absent from the top 50 in 2011.
- Schiermonnikoog is at number 5
- Terschelling is at number 22
- Vlieland is at number 33
Collection schedule
The CBF draws up an annual collection schedule. A collecting organization may not collect outside the allocated week.
The schedule is on the CBF website.
Collecting in the municipality of Ameland
Whether there is a collection in your municipality depends on whether there is a contact person who organizes it and whether there are enough volunteers who want to take to the streets. Collections are being made on Ameland for:
- Netherlands Brain Foundation
- Amnesty International
- Jantje Concrete
- Rheumatism Fund
- Simavi
- ZOA refugee aid
- Disabled Sports Fund
- Heart Foundation
- Children’s aid
- Asthma Fund/Lung Fund
- Prince Bernhard Cultural Fund
- Epilepsy Fund
- Red Cross
- Stomach Liver Intestine Foundation
- KWF Cancer Control, St.
- Princess Beatrix Spierfonds
- Kidney Foundation Netherlands
- Fund for the mentally handicapped
- Animal protection
- Burns Foundation
- Diabetes Fund
- Alzheimer Netherlands
- Dutch Foundation for the Disabled Child
- MS Fund
- Salvation Army Fundraising
CBF data
Central Bureau of Fundraising
- Anthony Fokkerweg 1
- 1059 CM Amsterdam
- Tel. : 020-417 00 03
- Fax: 020-614 07 91
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: www.cbf.nl
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- Municipality of Ameland and the municipal council
- Kaatsen in Friesland
- Support for Artwork in the province of Friesland
- Leeuwarder Courant – Daily newspaper of the province of Friesland