By Cameron Clarke

Charities have been warned by their regulator that they will face criminal sanctions if they continue to bully the public for money.

In an interview with the Times, the Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross said his organisation would be willing to regulate street “chuggers”, door-to-door visits, call centres and direct mail appeals if the charities failed to crackdown on abuses.

Charities’ conduct has been under the spotlight since the suicide of the 92-year-old Bristol pensioner Olive Cooke, whose generosity was abused by charities sending her 267 letters in a month and calling regularly for more donations.

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Source: The Drum