Donations

How to Designate

When gifts are sent, they should be designated in a clear way. Undesignated offerings may be used for other needs of the work.

Designations for gifts could include the following:

• GG–General Gift

• UKBP–UK Building Project

• R–Radio

• Other (please specify in 6 characters)
  
  
  

What will your donations be used for?

UK Building Project

The UK Building Project consists of three main projects:

(1) the construction of the Woodland Camp event centre, (2) the improvement of the current facilities and new training centre at Bower House, and (3) the construction of the Full-time Training residences on the Bower Farm site adjacent to Bower House. This includes the buildings, the installation of all the necessary utilities, and the development and maintenance of the surrounding landscape.

Donations are used to (1) support the serving ones and volunteers associated with the projects, (2) purchase the physical
materials necessary for the construction, and (3) provide for all the miscellaneous expenses associated with the construction, including insurances, professional fees, etc.

The Radio

The majority of donated funds are used to broadcast Life-Study of the Bible with Witness Lee on Premier Christian Radio every weekday at 8pm and every Lord’s Day at 3pm. From time to time, additional broadcasts and advertisements are added to promote the Life-study of the Bible or events for radio listeners. In addition, the donations are used to support the things necessary to keep the radio on the air and to make it more effective, including: (1) supporting full-timers who maintain the radio broadcast, (2) creating, printing, and publishing adverts and flyers, (3) sending volunteers to attend exhibitions, and (4) holding seminars for radio listeners.

UK Gift Aid

WHAT IS UK GIFT AID?

UK Gift Aid increases the value of charity donations, allowing charities to reclaim basic rate tax on your gift. If you are paying higher rate tax, you can claim extra relief on your donations.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• Charities take your donation—which is money you’ve already paid tax on—and reclaim the basic rate tax from HMRC.

• Example: Basic rate tax is 20 percent, so this means that if you give £10 using Gift Aid, it’s worth £12.50 to the charity.

• For your donations to be eligible for Gift Aid, you must pay an amount of income tax and/or capital gains tax for each tax year that is at least equal to the tax that all charities reclaim on your donations in the same year. The UK tax year is from 6 April one year to 5 April the following year.

• p>If more than one Gift Aid donation has been made in the tax year, the donations must be added together to work out the tax that the donor must be charged with.

• If the donor is not charged with sufficient tax to cover the income tax deducted from their Gift Aid donations, then they will owe the amount of the difference in tax to HM Revenue and Customs. It is the donor’s responsibility to ensure that the sufficient taxes have been paid.

• Example: Charity A claims Gift Aid tax relief of £200 and charity B claims £400—the total Gift Aid tax claimed by the 2 charities on Mr. Green’s Gift Aid donations in the tax year is £600. However, Mr. Green only paid income tax of £250 during the 2018 to 2019 tax year and so he owes the £350 difference in tax (£600 total Gift Aid tax claimed less £250 Income Tax paid by Mr Green) to HMRC.

UK GIFT AID APPLIES TO THE FOLLOWING:

• All individuals who are residents in the UK.

• Individuals who are Crown servants or members of the UK armed forces serving overseas.

• Other non-resident individuals, provided they have income or capital gains charged to UK tax at least equal to the gross amount of the donation (that is, the actual donation made plus the basic rate income tax treated as deducted from that donation).

• Please note: Gifts from overseas funds are disqualified from UK gift aid.

HOW TO APPLY GIFT AID TO YOUR DONATION:

If you have already registered in the past for Gift Aid by indicating “I want all my subsequent donations to be Gift Aid donations,” there is no need to send a further Gift Aid form. Gift Aid will automatically be claimed.

However, please let us know if your address changes so that we can continue to claim Gift Aid. If we do not have a current address, your Gift Aid declaration will not be valid.

Please note: If you DO NOT want a specific gift “gift aided,” this needs to be clearly indicated on the donation transfer.

If you have NOT already registered for Gift Aid, we must receive a Gift Aid declaration from you, the donor. Without this declaration, a donation from an individual will not qualify as a Gift Aid donation.

Click here to download the Gift Aid declaration form.

All Gift Aid forms can be emailed to: [email protected].

If you register for Gift Aid, your information will be used for reporting donations for Gift Aid collection from HMRC and maintenance of accounting records. View our Privacy Policy or contact us at [email protected] for more details.