Gift Aid

Your donation

If you donate to us, you will be asked to declare whether you would like us to claim Gift Aid. This will be either filling in the details on the printed form (print form from website or receive form with newsletter when posted), filling the online Gift Aid form if you make a donation via PayPal.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Gift Aid?

Gift Aid allows us to claim an extra 25% on top of your donation from the Inland Revenue. This means that for every £1 you donate, we can claim an extra 25p direct from the Government.

Does your donation qualify for Gift Aid?

By filing in the Gift Aid form, you are declaring that you are a UK taxpayer (for the year beginning 6th April) and you have paid (or are going to pay) the Government more tax throughout that year than we are claiming back. If you have donated £100, for example, and have indicated that you would like us to claim the tax back, we can claim £25 from the Inland Revenue. You must, therefore, be sure that you have paid (or will pay) more than £25 in income or Capital Gains tax to the Government for that tax year. This is because the Government cannot give the money you've already paid back to us if you haven't paid any! For more information on how Gift Aid works, contact your local tax office or visit the Inland Revenue website.

The charity reclaims the tax on your donation only at the basic rate, even if you are a higher rate taxpayer. If you are a higher rate taxpayer, you can claim the difference between the higher rate of tax and the basic rate of tax on your Self Assessment return.

Yes. Tax credits on dividend income can be used to cover tax reclaimed by the charity.

If tax is deducted from bank or building society interest you receive, you can use that to cover the tax on the donation, provided you have not reclaimed it. If you have reclaimed that tax, then you must not use it to cover the tax on your gift.

The declaration is our authority to reclaim tax from the Inland Revenue on your donation. By giving the declaration you are confirming that you understand this.

If, for any reason, you decide that your donation should not be Gift Aided, you have 30 days from the date of the written record to tell us to withdraw it.

If you have simply collected money from other people and they have not made a declaration to the charity that they are taxpayers, the payment is not Gift Aid-able. However, if you have been sponsored for an event, and each sponsor has signed a Gift Aid declaration (the tick box on the sponsor form) and given us their name and full address, then we can reclaim the tax on the amounts covered by their declarations.