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Gift Aid

Find out all you need to know about Gift Aid and make your donation go even further.

Make a Gift Aid Declaration
Cancel a Gift Aid Declaration
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What is Gift Aid?

Gift Aid is a scheme which allows charities such as WWF-UK to reclaim basic rate tax paid on any money donated to them by UK tax-payers. 

How does it work? 

As a UK taxpayer you will pay tax on your earnings, savings or pensions, at either a basic rate of 20% or a higher rate of 40%. If you make a donation to charity, this donation will come from money that you have already paid tax on. As a charity, we can reclaim this tax back from the Government. This means that if you donate £10, and use Gift Aid, it’s actually worth £12.50. Which is great news for us! And because this additional money comes to us straight from the government, not out of your pocket, you would still only be giving us £10 of your own money. Which is great news for you!

The money that we claim back from HMRC as part of the Gift Aid scheme will be treated as unrestricted funds and used to support our general work, even if your original donation was made towards a specific project.

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Making sure you’ve paid enough tax to use Gift Aid

You can use Gift Aid if the amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax you’ve paid in any tax year (from 6th April one year to 5th April the next) covers the amount of tax we will reclaim on your donations. If you have not paid enough tax then it is your responsibility to pay the difference.

For advice on how to check if you’ve paid enough tax to use Gift aid, please visit the HMRC website.

Claiming back higher rate tax 

If you pay higher rate tax, you can also claim the difference between the higher rate of tax (40%) and the basic rate (20%) on the total (gross) value of your donation. 

For more information on claiming back higher rate tax please visit the HMRC website.

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Make a Gift Aid declaration

All you need to do is fill out the form below and we can claim the tax back on all donations you have made to us for the past four years, and on any future donations you may make.

You can cancel your gift aid declaration at any time and if your tax status or personal details change, please let us know.

Your Details

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Your Gift Aid Declaration

When selecting Gift Aid you are declaring that:

  • You are donating your own money and the funds have not come from anyone else including family members or from an office or bucket collection. 
     
  • The money you are donating is not the proceeds from the sale of goods or services, or the sale of tickets. 
     
  • You have not received something in return for this donation, such as an entry ticket to an event or a raffle ticket. 
     
  • The money that we claim back from HMRC as part of the Gift Aid scheme will be treated as unrestricted funds and used to support our general work, even if your original donation was made towards a specific project. 
     

Please read the statement below and tick the box to make your Gift Aid declaration:

I want to Gift Aid my donation and any donations I make in the future or have made in the past 4 years, to WWF-UK. I am a UK taxpayer and understand that if I pay less income tax in the current tax year than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on my donations it is my responsibility to pay any difference. Gift Aid is claimed by WWF-UK from the tax you pay for the current tax year.

Your Privacy

Your personal details will only be used to provide you with the goods or services you've requested or information you'd reasonably expect or have agreed to.
To see what this may include read more.

WWF-UK (including WWF-UK Trading Ltd) will collect data from you to process your donation, provide you with the goods/services you've requested, personalise your supporter experience, or provide you with fundraising and marketing materials (including by post and telephone unless you've told us not to).

Personal details collected this way will only be used to provide you with information you'd reasonably expect or have agreed to, and in accordance with our Privacy Policy. In limited circumstances, this may include using your data, in combination with public data sources, to analyse, research and profile our supporter base, so that our communications with you are more tailored and therefore cost-effective.

You can object to this processing at any time by contacting our Supporter Care team on 01483 426333 or supportercare@wwf.org.uk. We'll keep your personal details safe and won't share them with any other organisations unless they're working on our behalf, or if we're required to by law.

If, at any time, you’d like us to change the way we contact you, please visit wwf.org.uk/change-contact or call Supporter Care on 01483 426333. For full details on how we collect, use and store your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.

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Cancel a Gift Aid Declaration

All you need to do is fill out the form below and we can cancel the gift aid declaration you have made to us.

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Your Details

Would you like to keep your gift aid active and restricted?

If you are no longer a UK income taxpayer and/or capital gains taxpayer, please select the date you stopped paying tax. 

We will cancel your gift aid declaration from this date and repay any gift aid we have claimed on your donations from this date back to HMRC on your behalf.

If you don't know the exact date when you stopped paying tax, please enter the first day of the closest month and year.

If your address or contact details have changed and you would like to update them, please get in touch with our Supporter Care team through our Contact Us page or call 01483 426333.

Age?

Your Privacy

Your personal details will only be used to provide you with the goods or services you've requested or information you'd reasonably expect or have agreed to.
To see what this may include read more.

WWF-UK (including WWF-UK Trading Ltd) will collect data from you to process your donation, provide you with the goods/services you've requested, personalise your supporter experience, or provide you with fundraising and marketing materials (including by post and telephone unless you've told us not to).

Personal details collected this way will only be used to provide you with information you'd reasonably expect or have agreed to, and in accordance with our Privacy Policy. In limited circumstances, this may include using your data, in combination with public data sources, to analyse, research and profile our supporter base, so that our communications with you are more tailored and therefore cost-effective.

You can object to this processing at any time by contacting our Supporter Care team on 01483 426333 or supportercare@wwf.org.uk. We'll keep your personal details safe and won't share them with any other organisations unless they're working on our behalf, or if we're required to by law.

If, at any time, you’d like us to change the way we contact you, please visit wwf.org.uk/change-contact or call Supporter Care on 01483 426333. For full details on how we collect, use and store your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.

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