So, What exactly is Gift Aid?

We mention it as often as we can as it really makes a difference to Trinity Hospice when raising funds, via the shops, ebay or fundraising.

Gift Aid increases the value of your donations and we can benefit even more at no extra cost to you, the donor.

If you're a UK taxpayer, add Gift Aid whenever you make a donation and the charity can reclaim the basic rate of tax on your gift - that's a 25p for every £1 you give.
And it works with donated items too! So if we sell that Jacket you no longer want for £10, with gift aid it will actually make £12.50 for Trinity Hospice! BRILLIANT!

Sign up and get a free fob! WIN

Gift Aid allows individuals who are subject to UK income tax to complete a simple, short declaration that they are a UK taxpayer. Gift Aid can only be reclaimed on money donated by UK taxpayers, so after asking if you would like to gift aid your item, we have to ask if you are a UK taxpayer - we are not being nosey, but it only works if you are, so please do not think we are prying.

In order to make a Gift Aid donation you’ll need to make a Gift Aid declaration, which is a simple and quick form we have here (or you can do it online here). We give you a fob which is yours to keep so when you donated again, you can bring it in and we can find your gift aid number. (But if you forget it, it is not a problem as we can still find you on the system, it just takes a bit longer....)

Each person signing up to gift aid gets a fob. This is so we can track every single item they donated with a barcode. The barcode is unique to that person so we know that Mr J Bloggs has donated 4 items as we sell them through the till we can claim the right amount.

It all seems rather complicated but we try to make it as easy as possible as the more people signed up, the more stuff we can sell with added gift aid and the more money we can raise!

That 25% works on everything once sold, be it clothes, books, CDs, DVDs, Bric-a-Brac, etc....

So please, if you can, please, please, pleeeeaaaase sign up to gift aid when donating goods or money to charity as it really does make a difference.

Plus Brook Green is currently TOP SHOP, NUMBERO UNO, THE BEST, NUMBER 1 for the percentage of items sold which are gift aided, and we like to keep it that way!

Bye for now
BG