Internet and Gift Aid experts offer one-day training course on maximising Gift Aid

Howard Lake | 9 June 2006 | Newswire

Online fundraising consultant Howard Lake, publisher of UK Fundraising (www.fundraising.co.uk), and Barry Gower, MD of Gift Aid consultancy GAIN, are once again offering their one-day training course for charities on how to make the most of Gift Aid both offline and online.
The first outing of the course in May proved so successful that the consultants are repeating it on Friday 21 July 2006 in London at the Friends Meeting House in Euston, London.
In the morning Barry Gower will present an introduction to Gift Aid for individual donors. He will cover issues such as:
* Introduction and Brief overview of Tax Efficient Giving
* Review of different types of Tax Efficient Giving
* What is Gift Aid?
* Why is there Gift Aid?
* The Gift Aid declaration
* Gift Aid processing
* the benefit rules – what can and can’t be Gift Aided.
In the afternoon, Howard Lake will look at how the Web and email can be used to boost income from Gift Aid. He will cover:
* Online donations and who can help you handle them
* Event sponsorship
* Other fundraising activities e.g. eBay
* Using email to promote Gift Aid
Delegates will take away with them GAIN‘s “Gift Aid Recovery Rate Calculator”. By filling this in and returning it to GAIN they will receive a summary evaluation which will indicate how effectively their Gift Aid processes and record-keeping are working. GAIN will also provide feedback on how they are performing relative to the rest of the group, the sector they operate in and the market as a whole.
The one-day course costs just £199 + VAT, and that includes refreshments and a buffet lunch.
Details and booking form are at:
www.fundraising.co.uk/training/1015
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Notes for editors:
Fundraising UK Ltd is the pioneering Internet fundraising consultancy, set up in 1996 by Howard Lake MInstF. It advises charities and voluntary organisations on how to raise funds using the Internet. It also publishes UK Fundraising (www.fundraising.co.uk), the leading online resource for fundraisers.
GAIN (www.gain.me.uk) is a Gift Aid Recovery and Consulting Service. Its Gift Aid recovery fees are success-based: if it does not recover additional money for a charity the charity does not pay it a single penny. It also offers Gift Aid Consultancy, where it analyses and identifies fundraising events and opportunities which are eligible and appropriate for Gift Aid and other tax efficient donations.
Contact:
Howard Lake
Fundraising UK Ltd
hl***@fu*********.uk
01206 579081

About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.