Payroll Giving
Payroll Giving, or Give As You Earn (GAYE), is a fantastic way for employees to make regular payments to Make-A-Wish directly from their pay. People who receive their company/personal pension through Pay As You Earn (PAYE) can also take part.
If you're interested in Payroll Giving as an employee, read on. For information about Payroll Giving as an employer, click here
Payments made through a Payroll Giving Scheme are deducted from your pay before tax is deducted. This means that you are given tax relief on your donation immediately - and at your highest rate of tax.
If your company doesn’t already have a Payroll Giving Scheme it's easy to set one up. There's little in the way of cost and administration, and your employer will probably be able to adapt your existing payroll system to operate the scheme.
The benefits of Payroll Giving
Payroll giving lets you make donations to Make-A-Wish directly from your pay – providing you pay tax through PAYE. You can donate as much or as little as you want.
Your donations can be made regularly from weekly, fortnightly, four-weekly, monthly, or quarterly pay.
We benefit because we get regular donations to help us grant more wishes. And you benefit because you get tax relief on your donations straight away at your top rate of tax, meaning that your donations cost less.
For example, if you pay tax at the basic rate of 20% it would only cost you £8 to make a £10 donation to Make-A-Wish. If you pay tax at the higher rate of 40% it would only cost you £6 to make the same sized donation.
Payroll Giving is taken straight from your gross (pre-tax) pay so there is no need for Make-A-Wish to claim the tax back through Gift Aid – saving us valuable time and administration costs.
If you are a 40% or 50% taxpayer, Payroll Giving is the only way we can automatically receive all your tax on a donation.
For more information, please call tel 01276 40 50 80 or email info@make-a-wish.org.uk.
Our Payroll Giving partners
We work with a small number of payroll specialists in order to be able to help your company promote their existing scheme or set one up in the first place:
Big Change
If your company doesn’t already have a payroll giving scheme then we can introduce you to a company called Big Change set up by Christine Jenkins and Alison Allington of CCWorks, the award-winning community investment consultancy with combined experience of over 25 years.
Big Change offers an online Payroll Giving function that simply and efficiently allows employees to sign up to support Make-A-Wish online. The website can be branded with your company’s logo and name.
With an initial cost of only £200 to set up, host and maintain your site for 1 year for companies with up to 3,000 employees, this is a very cost-effective way to promote Payroll Giving. Your company will also receive all other benefits free of charge e.g. reports, promotional templates, seasonal graphics, helpline, training and support webinars.
Workplace Giving
Workplace Giving is a highly successful and award-winning Professional Fundraising Organisation that can help your company to set up a new scheme or promote your existing Payroll Giving scheme through their team of professional face-to-face advisers who can organise promotional visits at your place of work.
Workplace Giving works with more than 1,000 employers from all sectors across the UK and has a wealth of experience and resource to call upon.
The Workplace Giving advisors are available to visit companies and talk through Payroll Giving with your employees and colleagues. This can be done in work time without disrupting the flow of your work.
If you'd like more information about Payroll Giving, either as an employee or as an employer, please call tel 01276 40 50 80 or email info@make-a-wish.org.uk.
