{"id":847,"date":"2009-07-04T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T23:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=847"},"modified":"2009-07-04T00:09:30","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T23:09:30","slug":"free-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"Free Money!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bet that got your attention! <\/p>\n

The reason for this is that today my Group got a cheque from Her Majesty\u2019s Customs and Revenue (the taxman!)<\/a> as part of their Gift Aid<\/a> scheme.<\/p>\n

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Gift Aid is a scheme for charities which means that for every \u00a31 given to the charity, the charity can claim back 25p from the taxman!<\/p>\n

To be able to do this, we have to register with HMRC, get each parent to sign a form saying they are happy for us to claim Gift Aid on their behlaf, record money given to the Group by each parent and apply for the money once a year.<\/p>\n

We can claim for money given to the Group for Capitation fees or weekly subs, but not for camps. Basically if you get a specific \u2018thing\u2019 for the money, we cannot claim against it. Fair enough!<\/p>\n

It does require some work on the Group Treasurer’s part and a little bit on mine as Group Scout Scout Leader, but for the small amount of work we have to do, we get about the same amount of money as we get when we spend a whole day bag packing at one of the local supermarkets!<\/p>\n

This is a great scheme which helps many UK charities and not just Scouting, but I find it extremely surprising that some Scout Groups don\u2019t do it as they think it is \u2018too complicated\u2019.<\/p>\n

When I was talking to our Treasurer earlier today, he reminded me that when we started applying for Gift Aid we didn\u2019t think we would get much cash back from the scheme, but we were initially surprised at how much we got and we have been surprised every year since. As the Group is growing, the  amount of money coming in is going up and then the money we can claim back goes up. Win win really!<\/p>\n

If you are a Scout Group (or any charity really) and don\u2019t do Gift Aid, get it sorted! After all you get free money! And of course, this goes to provide great equipment and activities for the Group\u2019s members!<\/p>\n

Bet that got your attention! The reason for this is that today my Group got a cheque from Her Majesty\u2019s Customs and Revenue (the taxman!) as part of their Gift Aid scheme.   Gift Aid is a scheme for charities which means that for every \u00a31 given to the charity, the charity can claim back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-dF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}