support our core work

	Support our Core Work
	We need your support SAVE’s finances are permanently tight, to be polite about it, and so all donations are really rather welcome. Successive Secretaries of SAVE have struggled with the dilemma – concentrate on fundraising and lose sight of the buildings or vice verse? The answer, as you might expect is usually the latter. However, rather than popping a ten pound note in the post, there are many more ways of givings, some of which require five minutes more thought, but have the result of meaning a little more for us, and the satisfaction on your part of knowing you are (legally) having one over on the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
		Become a friend Give as you earn Gifting shares Transfer of Assets Gift Aid Legacies Charities Aid Foundation Company Giving More information on giving Volunteer
	Become a Friend SAVE's work has been supported and aided by a wide range of contacts who have provided information, ideas, case histories and photographs on a purely informal basis. In this way, SAVE is open to all, but by becoming a friend of SAVE you can make a direct financial contribution to our work - friends are asked to contribute a minimum of £25 a year. Apart from a discount of 20% on publications and a Friends' Newsletter twice a year, Friends will have access to the Buildings at Risk Register, receive a copy of the SAVE Action Guide, and be privy to discounts on events. Return to top Give as you earn Payroll giving is a very tax efficient way of donating – the donation is deducted from the payee’s gross pay before PAYE so they get immediate tax relief at their highest rate of tax. In English then, it will only cost someone who pays tax at a basic rate of 22% income tax £7.80 in order for us to receive £10.00. Return to top Gifting Shares This is a spot more complex, but very tax efficient. If a donor who is a 40% taxpayer gives us shares worth £1000, they will get tax relief of £400, meaning that the donation has cost them £600. On top of this the donor is not liable for any capital gains tax even if you have used up your capital gains allowance. All you have to do is sign your shares over to us, and we can either sell them and use the proceeds, or keep them as an investment. For example, if you give us shares worth (in our dreams) £50,000, which you (in your dreams) originally purchased for £1500, there is no capital gains liability, and the full amount of £50,000 can be deducted from taxable income. There are more complex ways of giving shares (well, technically selling shares) that we won’t go into here as we’re not professional tax consultants. Return to top Transfer of Assets Likewise, capital assets can be given to save without you incurring any capital gains or inheritance tax liability. Gift Aid This is the simplest way for donors of ensuring we benefit from your donations by allowing us to claim back the basic rate of tax on any donation, whatever the size, from tax payers. Contact us on Tel. 020 7253 3500 for a form. Return to top Legacies Whether you regard it either as forward thinking or slightly morbid, the fact remains that any sum given to SAVE in a legacy has the advantage of relief from inheritance tax. All you have to do name us in your will and earmark some funds from your estate. Return to top Charities Aid Foundation CAF operates a charity card which you can open if you agree to pay a minimum of £10 from your earnings per month into a special account. In return, you receive a ‘charity chequebook’ and a charity card allowing you to make tax free donations whenever. However, it is not an interest bearing account, and there are charges of 4% on sums up to £13,500, and 1% between £13,500 and £74,000. Return to top Company Giving If you are in a position to donate this way, the company can make a donation – one off or spread over time, and claim tax relief when working out the profits for corporation tax. Return to top More information on giving The advice above is no substitute for good, solid advice from a independent financial advisor who will be infinitely more clued up as to how these giving schemes work from the tax payers point of view. All gifts are gratefully received and the assumption is that unless we are specifically told otherwise, they are given in confidence. All of these incentives are of course very helpful, but the UK still has a long way to go before our regime is anything like that in the US where the financial incentives to giving are clear and simple. For more information on these methods of giving, contact: Charities Aid Foundation 0800 993311 www.allaboutgiving.co.uk Sharegift 020 7337 0501 http://www.sharegift.org/ Return to top Volunteer You can help SAVE by giving us some of your time, from stuffing envelopes to helping organise fund raising events to providing professional advice (which may be seen in itself as in-kind giving and therefore tax deductable – but check first!). Return to top