Helen Fospero backs Barnardo’s retail Gift Aid appeal
Howard Lake | 24 July 2014 | News
Breakfast TV presenter Helen Fospero is promoting Barnardo’s Missing Millions Gift Aid appeal to help boost the charity’s income.
In a short video she explains the Gift Aid system, emphasising how easy it is to give using the tax-effective method, and how much more money could be raised by the children’s charity if more people made use of the opportunity.
She is shown going into a Barnardo’s shop to donate some clothes, and filling in a Gift Aid declaration form.
She said:
“It’s a terrible waste that Barnardo’s could gain an extra £6.5 million to spend on children’s services simply through Gift Aid. That’s £6.5 million, of tax back money. I had no idea that signing up could make such a huge difference”.
Gerard Cousins, Director of Trading, said:
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“I don’t think people really understand just how simple it is to sign up to Gift Aid and what an important difference it could make to Barnardo’s children’s services, without costing them a penny. If all those incredibly generous people who donate clothes and goods to Barnardo’s, simply signed up for Gift Aid, they could help us claim the missing tax millions and give tens of thousands of vulnerable children the help and support they desperately deserve.
“I’m delighted that Helen has signed up to our appeal and hope that she will encourage many more people to take 60 seconds to join her and help Barnardo’s claim the full possible tax income”.
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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.
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