Gift Aid is a scheme enabling registered charities to reclaim tax on a donation made by a UK taxpayer, effectively increasing the amount of the donation. This means that, if you pay UK tax and agree to Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School claiming Gift Aid on your donation, the Government will give us 25p on top of every £1 you give to us and it doesn’t cost you a penny!
In order for Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School to receive Gift Aid from the Government, we need to submit a Gift Aid claim to HMRC. This claim is made up of the details of every eligible donation made to Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School alongside a valid Gift Aid Declaration from each individual donor.
You can submit you Gift Aid Declaration by clicking on the button below and completing the short form.
HRMC has provided clear guidance that only voluntary gifts or payments are eligible for Gift Aid. Simply describing a payment as ‘voluntary’ or a ‘donation’ does not make it eligible for Gift Aid. If access to educational services or facilities provided by a school requires parents or relatives of students to make a payment, payments are not ‘voluntary’ and therefore they are not charitable donations.
If parents or relatives are asked to make ‘voluntary contribution’ payments to a school or school charity, which are linked to the provision of services or facilities to related pupils, they are not charitable donations. Payments made for the following are not eligible for Gift Aid:
tuition fees
school holidays
extra-curricular activities
lessons
educational trips
tickets for a school production
Additional information can be found here… https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gift-aid-what-donations-charities-and-cascs-can-claim-on
A valid Gift Aid Declaration states the following:
The donor is a UK taxpayer and have paid enough in UK income tax or capital gains tax in that tax year to cover the amount reclaimed by Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School and any other organisation receiving Gift Aid claims from that donor in that tax year.
The donor agrees to the Gift Aid being claimed by Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School
The donors name
The donors home address
The date the donation was made
In most cases we collect the Gift Aid Declaration as a part of the donation process, whether you make your donation via a standing order or ParentPay. If you phone us to make a donation you can also make your declaration orally, but if you do we must write to you to confirm your declaration in writing.
We are required by HMRC to write to you to confirm this and give you the opportunity to cancel your Gift Aid Declaration. To make this process as simple as possible, we word our letter so that if you ignore it we will take this to mean you agree to the claim. This means that, in each tax year, as long as you have paid enough UK income or capital gains tax to cover the total value of Gift Aid we or any other charity will claim on your donations, you can happily ignore the letter.
You can of course get in touch to cancel the Gift Aid claim against your donation too. If you have not paid enough UK income or Capital Gains Tax to cover the value of the Gift Aid, it is important that you do. If any charity makes a claim following on from a Gift Aid Declaration you have made incorrectly it is you, the individual donor, who is liable to pay the difference to HMRC, not the charity.
Plaistow and Kirdford Primary School can only claim Gift Aid if the individual handing over the donation is a UK tax payer and can confirm their Name, Address and that they have not received anything in return for the donation.
We cannot claim Gift Aid on:
Donations from companies
Donations from a combined collection unless all donors have agreed and signed a Gift Aid declaration
Donation made through payroll giving
Donations that are a payment for goods or services
Donations using charity vouchers
Donations that result in a benefit to the donor
To ensure the above is correct, you may also be asked to confirm that:
The donation is your own money. It has not come from anyone else e.g. a business, friends, family or a collection
The donation is not from the proceeds from the sale of goods or provision of service e.g. a cake sale, auction or car wash
You are not receiving a benefit from this donation e.g. entry to an event, raffle or sweepstake.