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Gift Aid explained
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Make your donations go further |
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Government operates a scheme called Gift Aid that allows charities to
claim 28p for every pound donated.
So if you donated £100 to 1st Davenham Scouts, it means
that you’ll actually be giving us £128!
Giving under Gift Aid means that so much more money can be raised
with relatively little effort. |
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Gift Aid – the facts
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For individuals, the Gift Aid rules require
the completion of a Gift Aid Declaration Form. This provides us
with the minimum information required for us to be able to claim
Gift Aid on a donation.
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Gift Aid can be claimed on individual and
sponsorship donations that are made to Cancer Research UK.
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Gift Aid applies only to ‘gifts’. That
means we can’t use Gift Aid to boost fundraising totals on
activities where people have been charged an entry fee or have
entered a competition. This also extends to activities where the
donor can’t be traced (such as giving to collections).
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To ensure that the Gift Aid claim is valid,
meaning we can claim the money back, it’s vitally important that
all the information asked for on the Gift Aid Declaration Form
is provided.
Gift Aid Declaration Form
Any charity has to be able to trace the receipt of any donation on
which Gift Aid is claimed, so it’s incredibly important that any forms
sent back to us are accurate and complete. All Gift Aid Declaration
Forms should include the following:
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The name of our charity (which our form
includes).
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The full name and home address of the
person making the donation, including their postcode. Donations
cannot be made jointly.
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A statement that the individual pays an
amount of income and/or capital gains tax that is at least
equivalent to the tax that 1st Davenham Scouts will claim from HM
Revenue & Customs (this is already on our standard form) and
that the person wants his or her donations to be treated as Gift
Aid donations.
Gift Aid on Tax Returns
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From 6 April 2004 any person filling out a
tax return is able to nominate that any tax refund due to them
is paid to a charity instead. This payment gets treated as a
Gift Aid payment, meaning we can claim 28p in every pound given.
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For a gift aid declaration form
please click
here |
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