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A-Z List of organisations and key to abbreviations
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1. Explanatory notes
Why have we compiled this list?
- It provides a handy, all-in-one A-Z list of most of the organisations mentioned on our website, together with links to most of them.
- It acts as a key to abbreviations and acronyms used on the website, most of which are organisations - such as TSD, ASA, DCLG, OTS.
See also (1) the Links - bare A-Z list page - this just lists the "www" addresses.
See also (2) the Useful links page :
- The Useful links page is a classified list (in other words it's arranged by subject) rather than A-Z.
- It includes all the organisations listed below, and gives links to each of their websites.
- It's the main list of organisations on the website, with more
detail than is on the
'A-Z' page you're now looking at.
What's in this list?
The list below focuses on charitable house-to-house collections (especially clothing etc), licensing of such collections and enforcement. There's some coverage of charities, charity law, charity fundraising (especially charity shops) and re-use/recycling.
It excludes most general information sources such as web search engines.
Notes on the list below
- Sections - The list is divided into two parts, as follows :
- Organisations
- Abbreviations (excluding organisations)
- Order - Both sections are sorted A-Z, usually by the full name (column 2).
- Italics - Indicates organisations which no longer exist or have been renamed.
- The Category ('Categ') column - This indicates the type of entry - for example central government (CG), local government (lg), law, charity, co, IT.
- The Notes column - This gives cross-references and further explanation.
- Address - To see each web address, place your mouse cursor on the link and look at the message on the status bar (bottom left of screen).
Note: There are no red double-arrow symbols next to the external links below.
2. Organisations (A-Z) |
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Abbrev'n |
Full name and link
|
Categ |
Notes |
| ACD | Active Community Division (of Home Office) | CG | Now part of OTS |
| ACU | Active Community Unit (of Home Office) | CG | Became ACD |
| ASA | Advertising Standards Authority | ||
| ACS | Association of Charity Shops | ||
| BC | borough council | lg | Type of district council |
| BERR | Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform | CG | Created 28 June 2007. Formerly the DTI |
| BIOA | British and Irish Ombudsman Association | ||
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation | ||
| Cabinet Office Strategy Unit | CG | ||
| CFOI | Campaign for Freedom of Information | ||
| Cards for Good Causes | |||
| CG | central government | CG | Eg Home Office |
| Charities Advisory Trust | |||
| CAF | Charities Aid Foundation | ||
| Charity Choice | |||
| CCCC / 4C | Charity Christmas Card Council | ||
| Charity Commission for England & Wales | CG | ||
| CLA | Charity Law Association | ||
| CAB | Citizens Advice Bureau | charities | |
| Clothes Aid | co | Company | |
| Commission for Local Administration in England (Local Government Ombudsman) | |||
| Companies House | CG | ||
| Consumer Focus | CG | Formed from NCC etc | |
| CA | Consumers' Association | charity | Now called Which? |
| CC | county council | lg | |
| CPS | Crown Prosecution Service | CG | |
| DCLG | Department of Communities and Local Government | CG | Was ODPM |
| DEFRA | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | CG | |
| DTI | Department of Trade and Industry | CG | Now called BERR |
| DC | district council | lg | |
| EA | Environment Agency | CG | Eg regulates waste disposal |
| EH | Environmental Health | lg | The LA dept often responsible for licensing |
| ENCAMS | Environmental Campaigns | ||
| FoE | Friends of the Earth | ||
| GOSH | Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children | charity | |
| HMCS | Her Majesty's Courts Service | CG | Part of MoJ |
| HMSO | Her Majesty's Stationery Office | CG | See OPSI |
| HO | Home Office | CG | |
| ICO | Information Commissioner's Office | CG | |
| Institute of Fundraising | |||
| IOL | Institute of Licensing | Established 2003 | |
| ITSA | Institute of Trading Standards Administration | Now called Trading Standards Institute | |
| ICSA | Irish Charity Shops Association | Eire | |
| Law Society for England & Wales | Solicitors body | ||
| Liberty (NCCL) | |||
| LA | licensing authority | lg | |
| LA | local authority | lg | CC, DC, BC etc |
| LACORS | Local Authorities Coordinators of Regulatory Services | lg | |
| LD | licensing department | lg | |
| LG | local government | lg | |
| LGA | Local Government Association | lg | |
| LGIU | Local Government Information Unit | lg | |
| LGLF | Local Government Licensing Forum | lg | Formed 1996. Became IOL |
| MoJ | Ministry of Justice | CG | |
| NACAB | National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux | ||
| NAO | National Audit Office | CG | |
| NCC | National Consumer Council | CG | Now part of Consumer Focus |
| NCVO | National Council for Voluntary Organisations | charity | |
| ODPM | Office of the Deputy Prime Minister | CG | Now DCLG |
| OFT | Office of Fair Trading | CG | |
| OPCA | Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration (the Parliamentary Ombudsman) | CG | |
| OPSI | Office of Public Sector Information / Her Majesty's Stationery Office | CG | |
| OTS | Office of the Third Sector | CG | Part of the Cabinet Office |
| Police forces | CG/lg | ||
| QUANGO | Quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation | Eg CG agencies | |
| SNC | South Northamptonshire Council | lg | |
| TRA | Textile Recycling Association | ||
| TSO | The Stationery Office | co | |
| Trading Standards Central | Site maintained by TSI | ||
| TSD | trading standards department | lg | |
| TSI | Trading Standards Institute | ||
| Which? | charity | ||
3. Abbreviations (excluding organisations) |
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| 1916 Act | Police, Factories, etc (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916 | law | Controls street collections |
| 1939 Act | House to House Collections Act 1939 | law | Controls house-to-house collections in England |
| 1947 Regulations | The House to House Collections Regulations 1947 | law | Under the 1939 Act |
| 1992 Act | Charities Act 1992 | law | |
| 2006 Act | Charities Act 2006 | law | |
| DOC | [MS Word] Document | IT | Microsoft Word file format |
| FoI | Freedom of Information | Open government etc | |
| HOEO | Home Office Exemption Order | law | Made under the 1939 Act |
| H-to-H, H2H | House-to-House | ||
| JS | JavaScript | IT | A web page programming language (eg used for the site's drop-down menus) |
| N | Newspaper | Eg on the site's drop-down menus | |
| NPOV | Neutral point of view | Eg Wikipedia rules | |
| PACE | Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 | law | Eg procedures for interviewing collectors |
| Portable Document Format | IT | Adobe Acrobat file | |
| PR | Press release | Eg on the site's drop-down menus | |
| s | Section | law | Of Act - eg 's1(2)' |
| SLD | UK Statute Law Database | law | |
| ToC | Table of Contents | IT | Eg at the top of many of the site's pages |
| USOI | Useful sources of information | Eg re the Links page | |
| WEEE | Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive | law | EU - recycling rules |
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