Street Collections

The Police, Factories, etc. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1916 and the Street Collection Regulations set out the law with regard to street collections.

 

 

 

If you wish to collect money or sell articles in any street (which includes any highway, public bridge, road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passageway whether a thoroughfare or not) or public place for charitable purposes within the Sheffield City boundary, then you must get a street trading permit from the Licensing General section.

 

 

 

If you wish to undertake a street collection, you must first contact us to establish whether the area you want to collect on the date you would like to do it is available.

 

A large number of charities use the public spaces in Sheffield to make charitable collections and the fairest way to coordinate this is by a booking system on a first come first served basis.

 

We must receive an application form before we can book the area for you as provisional bookings cannot be taken.

 

It is the Council’s policy to allow only one collection in a location at any one time.

We must receive completed application forms at least 28 days prior to the required collection date.

 

You can download an application form and the rules and regulations on street collections at the bottom of the page.

 

 

Within one month after the collection taking place, you must send a Form of Statement, available as a downloadable document at the bottom of the page, to the Licensing General section  giving an account of the monies raised.