# Membership gift coupons can now be donated using Gift Aid

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/02/24/membership-gift-coupons-can-now-be-donated-using-gift-aid/
- Published: 2010-02-24T13:51:40+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Gift Aid recovery consultancy GAIN has announced the Charity Discount Card, a method
of enabling charity’s donors to donate gift coupons they might receive from the 
charity under the Gift Aid scheme.

Many membership organisations and associations include a discount card or vouchers
for their members, giving them discounts and benefits at selected retailers and 
suppliers. Until now these discounts could not be donated to charity under Gift 
Aid because there were not cash donations.

GAIN’s director Barry Gower has, however, developed a new structure that overcomes
this. HMRC have approved this new approach.

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As a result, donors who purchase gift coupons or vouchers at a discount off the 
face value can now choose to donate the discount to charity and to do this using
Gift Aid.

This new approach was announced yesterday at CHASE 2010 in London.

www.gain.me.uk

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