Gift Aid provides a great opportunity for donors in the UK to increase the value of their donations to a charity. When this option is enabled on your Campaign, donors will be able to indicate that they want their donation gift-aided.
What Is Gift Aid?
Charities and Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) in the UK can claim an extra 25p for every £1 their donors give when they opt-in to Gift Aid, a special UK tax program. It does not cost the organization any extra, and charities can claim Gift Aid on most donations.
Charities can access reports with the Gift Aid information in Campaign management, helping your organisation easily claim Gift Aid with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
If you’re a UK-based charity or Community Amateur Sports Club (CASCs), enabling Gift Aid will allow you to maximize your donations. This is a simple way to boost the donations you receive, with no extra effort on your part.
Gift Aid is a form of tax relief. Nonprofits can claim back the tax that their donors have paid on donations.
For every £1 that’s donated to your nonprofit, you can claim back 25p. This allows your nonprofit to boost eligible donations by 25%.
For a charity to claim Gift Aid on a donation, the donor must make a Gift Aid Declaration (GAD). The GAD confirms that the donor is a UK taxpayer and that Gift Aid may be claimed on their donation. (Please note that you must give a declaration to each charity you would like to donate to through Gift Aid.)
Enable Gift Aid
Enable the Gift Aid Declaration on your Campaign:
- Go to Campaigns in the left menu.
- If you have chosen list view, click on the Title of the Campaign. If you have chosen grid view, click on the Campaign image.
- Click Campaign Setup*.
- Click Options in the timeline at the top.
- Click Checkout Options.
- Scroll down until you see this box.
7. Check the box Allow donors to optionally Gift Aid their donations.
8. Customize the text or use the default text.
9. Click Save at the bottom of the page.
Here’s how the box will appear for donors in the checkout process.
Enabling this option will show a new section in the checkout process for supporters to indicate that they would like to Gift Aid their donation. They will then be asked to provide any additional information that you need. This information submitted by supporters will be readily available to you in the reporting area to help you claim Gift Aid.
You will also customize your message to donors, asking them to Gift Aid.
To access information about donors’ decisions to use or skip Gift Aid donations, follow the steps provided in the link below.
How to Export Donation and Donor Reports
NOTE: DoJiggy is not the Gift Aid agent for your charity. We will not submit Gift Aid claims to HMRC on your behalf, but we will provide data to assist in your reporting process.