This page gives information on charitable street and house-to-house collections.
Charity collections in St Albans and District
All charitable street and house-to-house collections must be licensed by your council. You may apply for a charity collection permit using the forms below. The forms must be printed off and returned by post, as they require a signature to validate them. Please familiarise yourself with the Regulations and Conditions in the PDF documents below before making your application.
A charity collection is defined as a collection of money or sale of articles for the benefit of charitable purposes. A street collection is a collection made in any place that is freely accessible to the public and includes the pavement, parks, supermarkets, shopping precincts and so on. A house-to-house collection is one that takes place from door to door and might involve knocking on people’s doors, posting envelopes through letterboxes, or going from pub to pub with collecting tins.
Each charity may apply for one street collection per year in each of the following areas: St Albans, Harpenden, Wheathampstead, Redbourn and Marshalswick Quadrant, or for a street collection at another location within the district, with the appropriate permissions. House-to-house collections are licensed differently and the Council will request that you liaise with other charities in order to avoid more than one collecting in the same area at any one time. Please give as much notice as possible – a minimum of one month is required – when applying for a permit to collect.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Sue Lovell - susan.lovell@stalbans.gov.uk or 01727 819254.
Forms - applications, forms of account (post collection)
Businesses and residents interested in applying to carry out charitable collections can also do so online through Business Link.