# smartchange helps RBS Group win payroll giving award

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/28/smartchange-helps-rbs-group-win-payroll-giving-award/
- Published: 2003-11-28T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Royal Bank of Scotland Group won this year’s won prestigious Pay Award for
Payroll Giving with some technological help from Smartchange.**

The Award was presented to Alan Richardson and Jane McDonagh of The Royal Bank of
Scotland Group at the ceremony for the payroll profession held at the London Marriott
Grosvenor Square on Monday 24-November-2003.

The Payroll Giving Award recognises the achievements made by employers and their
payroll departments in setting up payroll giving schemes and is sponsored by the
Giving Campaign.

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The Royal Bank of Scotland Group won because of their great efforts promoting the
scheme to their employees and their commitment to local communities demonstrated
by their double matching scheme. By using the smartchange online payroll donation
solution and working with CAF, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group have been able to
maintain and increase very high levels of participation in their payroll giving 
scheme allowing £5.4 million to be donated to charity in 2002 and a staff participation
level of 12.7%.

Alan Richardson, the Community Investment Manager for The Royal Bank of Scotland
Group said: “This is a great achievement for the Group and we are proud to be able
to provide our employees with simple and secure ways of supporting their local communities.
We believe our staff are best placed to judge what needs support in the communities
where they live and smartchange allows us to doublematch the financial support they
already give”.

Vinay Khosla, Managing Director of Vivid Orange, providers of the smartchange solution,
said: “smartchange allows The Royal Bank of Scotland’s employees a quick and efficient
way of choosing charities to support. Importantly, smartchange also provides the
Group with comprehensive reports allowing them to accurately measure the effectiveness
of their internal promotions of the doublematched payroll giving incentive. We are
very pleased to have played our part in the success of Payroll Giving at The Royal
Bank of Scotland Group”.

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