Welcome to the Gift Aid Blog

What a time to launch. Whilst offering encouragement to Charities to claim their Gift Aid entitlement the Chancellor takes £70m - £100m (it depends who you ask!) of claimable Gift Aid out of the system in the recent budget.

I think its time to fight back. Let’s use this blog to share ideas on how to maximise Gift Aid claims and to secure the claims that are made such that HMRC Audits can safely be passed and these hard earned donations can be maximised in terms of fundraising effectiveness. Lets use it to lobby, to argue, to think creatively and to make a real difference.

I’d like to think of the blog as having a really positive role to play. Its easy to feel like victims when Gift Aid can seem complex, HMRC are coming round to audit and even the Chancellor seems against us.

But in the democratic world of the Internet it will be exactly what you want it to be. And that’s even more exciting.

Happy Blogging!