£108 helps a patient at the every end of life receive Hospice at Home nursing care in their own home.
On your donation of £108, we can claim an extra £27, making your gift worth £135
How to make your donations to Treetops Hospice help even more patients and their families in the local community.
Gift Aid - how you can help, for free
Adding 25p to every £1 you donate without it costing you a penny!
It’s as simple as ticking a Gift Aid box and leaving us your details, HMRC can then give us 25p for every £1 you donate. It doesn’t cost you a penny!
Gift Aid is a great government scheme designed to help charities.
What is Gift Aid and how does it work?
It’s as simple as ticking a Gift Aid box and leaving us your details, HMRC can then give us 25p for every £1 you donate. It doesn’t cost you a penny!
You can only tick a Gift Aid box if you pay more UK income or capital gains tax, this includes tax on pensions and savings, than the charities you donate to claim. That’s probably most of us.
What’s better is you need only do this once and all your future donations to Treetops Hospice are covered. as well as any donations you’ve given us during the past four years (if you were a UK taxpayer at this time).
So, please tick the Gift Aid box when you can, and every £1 you donate will be worth £1.25 – it’s that simple.
When making a monetary donation
When you donate online, or use one of our printed donation forms, you will see the Gift Aid box.
If you donate in an alternative way, we will send a Gift Aid form and prepaid envelope when we send you a thank you letter.
If you prefer you can download the Gift Aid form and send it with your donation.
Amending your Gift Aid instruction to Treetops
If you are using a printed declaration, please put a line through ‘all my donations given to Treetops Hospice within the last four years and all donations I make in the future’ on the gift aid declaration.
If you are donating online, please get in touch to let us know.
If you gift aid future donations, it doesn’t commit you to making any, it just means if you do so you will not have to make a Gift Aid declaration again.
Please put a line through four in ‘within the last four years’ on the gift aid declaration and write the number of years.
If you haven’t been a taxpayer in the past put a line through ‘within the last four years’ If you are donating online, please get in touch to let us know.
Please get in touch as soon as your tax status changes. It may be you still pay a form of tax that enables Gift Aid to continue, but if not, we will stop claiming Gift Aid immediately.
This includes tax paid on:
wages,
personal or occupational pension,
stocks and shares,
bank and building society savings accounts,
rental income,
overseas and UK investment dividends.
Please get in touch and we will update your details
We can only claim Gift Aid on your donations if you are donating your own money, because you will have paid tax on this.
This means we cannot claim Gift Aid on
- donations made by companies or organisations. There are plenty of tax-efficient ways in which businesses can help us please contact our Head of Community Relationships or your own accountant for advice on these.
- money collected money from other people that you pass it on to us, such as collections and sponsorship money, unless you use donation envelopes or sponsorship form as these resources allow people to tick a box to say we can gift aid their money. Please contact us for these items.
- money when you get something in return, for example when you pay for tickets to see a show, buy things like our Treetops Hospice Christmas cards, purchase of raffle tickets or to membership of the Treetops Lottery (as you may win a prize).
- money paid through a payroll scheme as its donated before you pay income tax
- money paid through Charity Aid Foundation as the gift aid claim has already been made
We recommend you read the government advice or chat to your financial adviser.
How Gift Aid supports local people
£67 helps a family with a loved one at the end of life to receive care form our Roaming Nurse team.
On your donation of £67, we can claim an extra 16.75, making your gift worth £83.75
£20 helps two children receive counselling resources to help them cope with the death of a loved one.
On you donation of £20, we can claim an extra £5, making your gift worth £25
Adding Gift Aid to the value of the items you donate to a Treetops Shop
We can also collect 25% more, whenever we sell an item that you have donated to a Treetops Shop. It is easy to opt into this separate Gift Aid scheme, just ask next time you’re in one of our charity shops. Or download the Retail Gift Aid Form and take into your nearest Treetops shop.
How the Treetops shop Gift Aid scheme works?
Next time you’re dropping donations at any of our Treetops charity shops, tell us you want to Gift Aid your items.
- We will give you a Retail Gift Aid Form to complete and a handy card with your Gift Aid donor number.
- In the future, when you donate to our charity shops, you just need to tell us your number or we can look it up for you.
- We then label your items to claim the extra 25% Gift Aid when we sell what you’ve given us.
- We contact you at the end of the financial year to let you know the value of Gift Aid we have been able to claim on the items you have donated.