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Gift Aid

•	If you Gift Aid your donation, Church Housing Trust can reclaim the tax you would have paid on the amount of your donation and increase the value of your donation at no further cost to you.
•	If you donate online you can choose the Gift Aid option. If you prefer to send your donation by post please print out and sign our Gift Aid Declaration form. Please note that in order for us to reclaim the tax you must pay an amount of income tax and/or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax that we reclaim on your donation in the tax year.
•	The Gift Aid Declaration can authorise tax recovery on all future donations.
•	Higher rate taxpayers can claim the difference between basic and higher rate tax on their tax return.

Standing Orders

You can also give by a regular standing order. This not only makes your financial planning easier, but we also have the reassurance of a regular income.

Gift Aid can also be applied to standing orders if you would like to consider this means of donating to us regularly. Please complete the Gift Aid form below the Standing Order form.

Share the Celebration!

Celebrating a special event? A wedding, anniversary, milestone birthday? Friends and relatives often find it difficult to choose a gift. Why not ask them to show their care by making a donation to Church Housing Trust? Their gift could become a real practical help to a homeless person by helping towards training, rehabilitation or resettlement costs. Click here for more information.

Share Giving

Share Giving is a great opportunity to take advantage of a generous tax break and support charity at the same time. For example, if higher-rate UK taxpayer donates £1,000 worth of shares to a charity, they will get £400 reduced off their income tax bill for that year. In addition, they will also be exempt from any capital gains tax. This could mean tax relief for the donor of up to 80 percent. Anyone can donate shares to charity, but they can only claim income tax relief if they are UK taxpayers. The biggest benefit for the donor is the generous tax break available, as well as the chance to support a charity using an asset other than cash.
If you would like to donate shares to Church Housing Trust please call us on 020 7269 1630, or discuss this with your broker. Alternatively, look at www.givingcampaign.org.uk for more information, or call 020 7930 3154 for a free Share Giving pack.

Payroll Giving

Thousands of people all over the country are using Payroll Giving to support their favourite charities. Under this scheme, anyone whose pay or pension is taxed through PAYE can make tax free donations. For example, if you give £5.00 a month it will only cost you £4.00. This is because the donation is made before PAYE is deducted, so the tax man won't take the £1.00 you would normally have to pay (at basic rate).

If you would like to know more, or would like Church Housing Trust represented in an existing scheme run by your company, please contact Alison Pernek at CHT (tel: 020 7269 1630) or email us for more information.

Payroll Giving for businesses

The Payroll Giving Quality Mark for businesses

Payroll Giving Quality Mark

As of January 2006, your business could be rewarded a Quality Mark just by setting up a Payroll Giving Scheme in your workplace.

Funded by the Home Office, the new Quality Mark scheme rewards you for setting up a payroll giving scheme in your workplace and offering this simple, tax-effective way of giving to your employees. Payroll Giving is easy to set up and your employees can choose to support any charity they wish. And, if 10% or more of your staff sign up, then your business will receive a bronze, silver or gold Quality Mark, incorporating a certificate and logo for use on your letterheads, website and other literature, in recognition of your commitment to helping to sustain UK charities.

Help foster a culture of giving in your workplace today!

To find out more call the Payroll Giving Centre hotline on: 0845 602 6786 or visit their website at: www.payrollgivingcentre.org.uk

If you already have a Payroll Giving scheme in place, contact your Payroll Giving Agency today to find out if you already qualify for a Quality Mark!

Legacies

You may not be able to give to us now, but if you include Church Housing Trust in your Will you will be giving a lasting gift which will help to ensure that we can continue to meet the needs of homeless people in the future.

In the past, legacies have meant that we have been able to purchase two minibuses for the use of elderly residents in Gloucester and Kent. We have also been able to furnish and equip a training kitchen in Oxford; provide specialist equipment in bathrooms for frail elderly people in Suffolk, purchase two flats for elderly homeless people in Cambridge and Manchester, and provide extra funding for welfare and resettlement in schemes throughout the country. The thoughtfulness and provision of the people who very generously left legacies to us during the past few years have significantly helped us in our ability to fund many projects for the homeless.

If you haven't yet made a Will, we would be pleased to send you a copy of our legacy leaflet. Please email us if you would like a copy or telephone your request (tel: 020 7269 1630). For more information and advice visit www.thewillsite.co.uk, the Institute of Professional Willwriters www.ipw.org.uk or visit the Legacy Promotion Campaign at www.rememberacharity.org.uk

Further Queries?

If you have any queries about tax effective giving, please call us on 020 7269 1630, send us an email or visit www.cafonline.org

Church Housing Trust
PO Box 50296
London
EC1P 1WF

Tel: 020 7269 1630
Fax: 020 7404 2562