Gift Aid supporting running costs

Howard Lake | 19 February 2009 | Blogs

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• credit crunch
• Gift Aid

We have seen an increasing trend from our client base on the dependency for Gift Aid as an income stream.

More and more of our support issues surround the need to help charities get out monthly claims, to the point that for many it’s imperative that the claims are made in time to support the next months running costs.

With over £500million still remaining unclaimed each year from the HM Treasury coffers, despite the recent huge uptake, there are many charities still feeling the pinch that could be part way resolved by increasing their uptake of current and retrospective Gift Aid.

• Steep increase in direct debit donation cancellations in 2007-08 (10 March 2009)
  
• Giving to charity remains a priority in economic downturn (28 May 2010)
  
• Recession in Ireland hits fundraising (8 October 2008)
  

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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.