Gift Aid – the facts
- 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.
- Gift Aid can be claimed on individual and sponsorship donations that are made to Cancer Research UK.
- 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).
- 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:
- The name of our charity (which our form includes).
- The full name and home address of the person making the donation,including their postcode. Donations cannot be made jointly.
- A statement that the individual pays an amount of income and/or capital gains tax that is at least equivalent to the tax that Cancer Research UK 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
- 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.
- Cancer Research UK is registered for this scheme and our unique HM Revenue & Customs reference is UAA95LG.
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