A third of working Brits would use payroll giving if they knew how, says survey
Howard Lake | 9 May 2007 | News
A third of working Britons would give an average of £9.60 a month through their salary if they knew how, according to a survey by Oxfam/YouGov plc.
Payroll giving project manager at the Institute of Fundraising Tina Steele says that there are currently around 10,000 companies in the UK with payroll giving schemes. This may not sound a lot, she said, but 4,800 companies employee half the working population so payroll giving schemes are currently accessible to around six million people.
Over the two-year life of the government’s SME grant programme more than 3,300 new companies have set up schemes, which Steele said included a good tranche of medium sized organisations with between 100 and 200 employees. She admitted that there is still a preconception that it is a complicated procedure and that this was likely to have put some smaller companies off, even though the process has been streamlined to make it easier to operate.
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Oxfam has set up ‘Oxfam at Work’ which aims to raise £1m in its first year. Steele said the Institute was also running a series of training events in the summer to help smaller charities join together as local ‘consortia’ to promote themselves to local businesses.
As part of the activities to celebrate 20 years of payroll giving the Institute has launched the first national Payroll Giving Awards, which will include the best scheme and best relaunched scheme. The awards will be presented at a reception at the Treasury in October.
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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.