An agreement that limits the number of direct debit charity street collectors working in Worcester has been renewed.
Licensing officers have reviewed the city council’s deal with the Chartered Institute of Fundraising that regulates when and where in the city the collectors can work.
The council’s principal licensing officer Niall McMenamin told licensing committee members that before the agreement, “you’d run the gauntlet on any day of the week” but that complaints stopped after the deal was signed in 2016.
Cllr Richard Udall said: “It was a serious issue prior to 2016. You couldn’t walk between shops without being pestered.
“Now the issue is with door to door collectors - people taking advantage of old age pensioners and others.”
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