# Are you claiming Gift Aid on donated goods?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/11/15/are-you-claiming-gift-aid-donated-goods/
- Published: 2008-11-15T17:18:22+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

If your charity benefits from re-selling goods donated by the public, and you are
not currently seeking Gift Aid declarations from the donors it’s time you started.

Oxfam is currently piloting a new scheme called ‘Tag your Bag’ which aims to encourage
people donating goods for re-sale in its shops to sign up for Gift Aid. The pilot
is running in 12 shops with the charity planning to roll the scheme out nationally
if it is successful. www.oxfam.org.uk/tagyourbag

Other charities are also making an effort to recover Gift Aid on donated goods. 
British Heart Foundation volunteers for example ask donors to complete a Gift Aid
form when the donate goods in a shop. The donor is issued with a unique number and
a card which they can show each time they bring goods to the shop.

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