# "67% of employees" want their company to offer payroll giving

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/03/04/quot67-employeesquot-want-their-company-offer-payroll-giving/
- Published: 2004-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Launching its Big Leap campaign, The Giving Campaign reports that 67% of employees
believe that employers should offer their staff the chance to donate to their favourite
charities and causes directly from their salary.
The Big Leap is the Giving Campaign’s
initiative to promote payroll giving to smaller and medium sized companies. It takes
its name from the fact that 2004 is a leap year.

The poll was carried out in the last week of February 2004 by YouGov, based on an
omnibus survey with a sample size of 2279 from across the UK.

It also found that 41% of salary earners would consider giving two hours of their
salary each month to a cause that they cared about. Donors giving two hours of their
salary to charity each month will have given an entire day (24 hours) after one 
year, hence the leap year theme.

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People in the North of England and in Scotland appeared to be particularly supportive
of payroll giving.

Guy Simpson, spokesperson for The Big Leap, welcomed the survey results: “Payroll
Giving is an extremely easy and tax-effective way of supporting charity, and yet
just 1% of companies and 2% of employees participate. The figures from the YouGov
survey show that many more employees would like to support charities at work, given
the opportunity. The Big Leap provides that opportunity.”

The Big Leap is encouraging employers to sign up and promote Payroll Giving to their
employees. From mid-March, employers will be able to log the number of hours pledged
by their employees on the campaign’s Web site, feeding into a national total.

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