Gift Aid makes your donation go further at no extra cost to you. Find out how to sign up.
Gift Aid
What is Gift Aid?
Gift Aid means we can support more civil servants when life gets tough.
It’s a Government scheme available to charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs). It means we can claim extra money from HMRC.
When a donation is made with Gift Aid, we can claim an extra 25p for every £1 donated. Gift Aid can increase the value of a donations by 25%.
Are my donations eligible for Gift Aid?
If your donation is your own money (i.e. not a collection of sponsorship donations or proceeds from a raffle or bake sale) and you pay UK Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax, then your donation is eligible.
Your donations qualify as long as they’re not more than four times what you paid in tax in that tax year (6 April to 5 April).
We can claim Gift Aid on any donations you have made in the past four years.
If there were years when your circumstances changed and you didn’t pay enough tax to qualify, please tell us as soon as possible so we don’t claim for that year. HMRC may ask you to pay more tax to cover the difference.
How do I sign up?
It’s quick and easy to sign up to Gift Aid with us. Choose one of these options.
- When you make an online donation, simply tick the box that says ‘Yes’ to Gift Aid.
If you are making a donation through the post or over the phone or want to apply Gift Aid to a previous donation:
2. Fill in a form – download and fill in the Gift Aid declaration form. You can email it back to us at supportercare@cfcs.org.uk or print it and post it to: Charity for Civil Servants, Supporter Care, 5 Anne Boleyn’s Walk, Sutton, SM3 8DY.
3. Give us a call – phone our supporter care team on 0800 056 2424 and tell them you’d like to make a Gift Aid declaration. Our phone lines are open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
FAQs
No.
Gift Aid can only be claimed on donations given from a single person.
So donations made by a company or group of people or as a result of a fundraising event, do not qualify.
That means that funds raised through a bake sale or quiz night or dance off, cannot be given with a Gift Aid donation.
Yes.
If you pay tax above the basic rate, you can claim the difference between the rate you pay and the basic rate on your donations.
The same applies if you live in Scotland. You can claim the difference through your Self Assessment tax return or ask HMRC to amend your tax code.
No.
Donations made to charity through payroll giving, like CAF Give As You Earn, aren’t eligible for Gift Aid.
That’s because they’re taken from your wages before tax.
Get in touch
If you have any questions or need to tell us that your tax situation has changed, please email supportercare@cfcs.org.uk or call 0800 056 2424.
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