Giving
How Gift Aid Works and Adds 25 Percent to Your Donation
You give £20 to a hospice appeal online, and a small box asks whether you are a UK taxpayer who wants to add Gift Aid.
You see a collection box for pads and tampons at the supermarket exit and wonder whether it does any good, or whether the problem is already solved by free schemes.
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Giving
You give £20 to a hospice appeal online, and a small box asks whether you are a UK taxpayer who wants to add Gift Aid.
Volunteering
You offer to help at a Saturday youth football club, and the coordinator emails back a form with your passport number on it.
Nonprofits
A donor once told me she had dropped a youth mentoring charity because its accounts showed 27 pence of every pound going on...
Causes
A nineteen year old I met at a drop-in centre in Leeds had slept in six different places in two months.
Community
The supermarket two streets from my flat throws away crates of bagged salad, yoghurt and bread every Saturday night, and every...
Volunteering
A web designer emails a local food bank offering to rebuild its website for free.
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