Gift Aid Best Practices Forum launches
Howard Lake | 1 July 2007 | News
Cancer Research UK and Oxfam have launched a new sector-wide initiative to share best practice on promoting, managing and claiming Gift Aid.
Held at HM Treasury, more than 50 people from a wide range of charities and sector bodies attended and covered topics such as the purpose, objectives, scope and adminsitraiton of the Forum as well as current issues and concerns surrounding Gift Aid.
Naomi Ball, Gift Aid manager for Cancer Research UK said there had been very positive feedback from the event. We walked away with an agreed set of objctives and scope statements, she told UK Fundraising, and we hope to have these ready to release next week. The document will be sent to all those who attended the meeting, plus others who had expressed an interest in the Forum.
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We are now developing a working party which will be the forerunner of the steering group and will finish the start-up, said Ball. The working party will define the function [of the steering group] and will decide how it is put together. She said that there had been a very strong feeling at the meeting that it must be very representative of the whole of the sector. The working party will aim to have the group up and running within three to six months
* Earlier this month the Government launched a consultation on measures to increase the take-up of Gift Aid. Take-up currently stands at around a third of donations and the Government would like to see this increased. The document is available on HM Treasury website and the consultation is open until the end of September.
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