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Gift Aid

If you are a UK tax payer we can also reclaim the tax on your donation at no extra cost through the Gift Aid scheme. If you would like to make a donation we would appreciate it if you could spare a moment to download and fill out a Gift Aid Declaration Form and then post it to us.

Gift Aid explained

Make your donation worth even more without it costing you a penny.

Gift Aid is one of the simplest and most effective ways of giving to charity. It is a scheme introduced by the Inland Revenue which allows us to claim 25p for every £1 that you donate - as long as you pay at least that amount in tax and give the charity permission to claim.

For example, if you give us £5 a month we can claim an extra £1.25, making your gift worth £6.25 a month. This would help send more nurses into patients' homes to provide them with the care that they need.

If you already donate to us and want to check that you are gift aiding your donations then please call us on 01229 580305 (lines open Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 4.30pm).

Further information

The Gift Aid guidelines require a Gift Aid Declaration Form to be completed. It gives us the data we need to be able to claim Gift Aid on a donation.

Gift Aid can be claimed on individual and sponsorship donations made to St Mary's Hospice.

Gift Aid applies only to 'gifts'. It does not apply to activities where an entry fee has been charged or where people have entered a competition. This also extends to activities where the donor can't be traced (such as giving to collections).

To ensure we can claim the money back, it's crucial that all the information asked for on the declaration is provided.

Gift Aid Declaration form

Gift Aid Declaration forms should include the following:

• The name of our charity (which our form includes).
• The full name and home address of the person making the donation, including their postcode. Donations cannot be made jointly.
• A statement that the individual pays an amount of income and/or capital gains tax that is at least equivalent to the tax that Marie Curie Cancer Care will claim from HM Revenue & Customs (this is already on our standard form) and that the person wants his or her donations to be treated as Gift Aid donations.

Download a Gift Aid Declaration form now

Gift Aid Declaration form.pdf