How has Payroll Giving helped charities in the last 20 years?
We currently work on behalf of over 100 charities; here is what some of them say about why Payroll Giving has been so important to them over the last 20 years;
Shelter has run a Payroll Giving scheme since it launched in 1987 and we've never looked back! Payroll donations mean so much more to us, they allow us to better plan our important work in helping homeless and badly housed people, and matched giving makes them worth even more. Payroll Giving has to be the least embarrassing trend we took up in the '80s! Winning an award for Payroll Giving last year with Workplace Giving UK and our corporate partner, Grainger Trust, just goes to show that Payroll Giving is a winner all round, and we hope to see it grow and grow over the next 20 years.
Suman Sandhu, Corporate, Community & Events Team
Shelter
We have been receiving donations from Payroll Givers for over 15 years. We rely on this support to continue our work with some of the world's most vulnerable children. Payroll Giving offers us the security of regular monthly donations which allows for responsiveness to changing needs and far greater flexibility in our work. From responding to the direct needs of street children we now work to tackle both the causes and consequences of violence against children.
Julie Anne Smith, Senior Fundraising Manager
ChildHope
Help the Aged was one of the first charities to offer Payroll Giving in 1987. We recognised then that it allows us to offer our supporters the opportunity to give regularly and easily to the cause of their choice. As it is tax free they can also give more to the programmes they decide to support to help the Charity fight to free disadvantaged older people from poverty, isolation and neglect.
Jill Bennett, Donor Development Manager
Help the Aged
Payroll Giving has had a massive impact on The Children's Society. This convenient method of regular giving has helped us to concentrate our work with young people where the need is greatest, and not just in areas where government funding is available. It makes us a truly independent organisation.
Ben Weatherley, Account Director
The Children's Society
Over the past two decades, well over £1 million has been raised in pre tax Payroll Giving to RNIB. As this money is unrestricted income, it allows RNIB to use it where the need is greatest among the 2 million people in this country with serious sight problems. So it can be used for services which make a huge difference to people's lives, but may not attract specific sponsorship.
Our Helpline now handles well over 1000 calls a week, many of them from people who have or are going to experience sight loss, or who are caring for people in this position. Because of Payroll Giving donors, these callers can be given the help they need, whether the call takes twenty seconds or twenty minutes. Thank you for the last twenty years of help.
Anne Fisher, Payroll Giving Coordinator
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Payroll Giving has been a fantastic unrestricted income generator for the Woodland Trust and over the last 20 years it has enabled the Trust to plant over 42,000 native trees, equivalent to 80 acres of new woodland. The UK lags way behind the rest of Europe when it comes to tree cover which is why the Trust's Tree For All campaign aims to involve 1 million children in planting 12 million trees.
Sue East, Account Manager
Woodland Trust
Do something this year to celebrate 20 years of Payroll Giving and benefit even more charities in the future.
