PDSA's retail Gift Aid programme raises £1m in two years
Howard Lake | 13 November 2009 | News
Veterinary charity PDSA has generated £1 million in additional income after it introduced a scheme to attract Gift Aid on qualifying donated goods.
Since 2007, over 70,000 people have signed Gift Aid declarations when donating their unwanted clothes, books and home furnishings to PDSA shops.
Photo: PDSA shop, Long Wyre Street, Colchester, by Howard Lake on Flickr.com
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Donors can also register for Gift Aid online for items collected by the charity’s van drivers.
PDSA expects to raise £400,000 in Gift Aid on donated items in the next year.
www.pdsa.org/giftaidretail
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.