# Gift Aid declaration for cashpoint donation to Children in Need takes four months

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/04/21/gift-aid-declaration-cashpoint-donation-children-need-takes-four-months-0/
- Published: 2006-04-21T21:41:13+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

HSBC Bank made a welcome change to its cashpoint machines last year, enabling users
to choose to make a donation via the screen to BBC Children in Need. The bank promised
that other charities would be listed in due course.

Having made a donation via the cashpoint, it was disappointing to see that there
was absolutely no mention of Gift Aid – not on screen and not on the paper receipt.

More than four months later a Gift Aid declaration form has arrived through the 
post from HSBC Bank, asking me to tick the box and sign and return it to BBC Children
in Need.

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Better late than never, but what a back-to-front approach to claiming Gift Aid. 
Why not add a yes/no button option in the donation process at the cashpoint? At 
least BBC Children in Need would have been able to get the Gift Aid claim in a third
of a year earlier.

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