# A third of working Brits would use payroll giving if they knew how, says survey

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/05/09/third-working-brits-would-use-payroll-giving-if-they-knew-how-says-survey/
- Published: 2007-05-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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.

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.

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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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