Guest blog: Charities, brace yourselves! Regulation is coming

This is a guest blog from Emma Smith-Bodie, who is the Marketing and PR Executive at CAN. Emma is also a volunteer and trustee, focusing on social media for Sutton Women's Centre. At CAN, she is responsible for organising and marketing internal customer events, coordinating digital content for social media, the internal newsletter and the website, and leading the development of press and PR strategy.   At the moment it seems like not a week goes by without a charity going under. And the heart of it is generally funding. Not enough, mismanaged. Even the fundraising organisations are going under too. Perhaps, then, this really is the right time for fundraising regulation. When I was 13, orthodontics were all the rage. I don't know how dental health and cosmetic dentistry became so popular with the teen population - I know for me it was a rash of models in my weekly girls magazine who all had lovely gleaming...train tracks. I wanted shiny mouth bling too! And there was a gaggle of celebs who also got themselves braces - but those like Tom Cruise could afford the invisible kind. So, it turned out I did actually need train tracks, but the reality was a lot less glamorous than the magazine models and Tom Cruise made it look. Fundraising regulation is a bit like orthodontics - important, and necessary for the health of the sector, but an unattractive and