Gift aid

Overview

This guide aims to provide you with useful information about gift aid and its transactions.

When someone chooses to add gift aid, charities can claim an extra 25% for each donation. Gift aid can be applied to both card and open banking donations, resulting in an additional 25 pence for every £1 donated to a charitable cause.

To activate this feature on your account, please get in touch with our support team. Please be aware that there is an additional fee for this service. Please let the support team know if you want the feature to be added to Requested payments (payment links) and/or your Blink pages. Customers who choose to include Gift Aid will need to complete the declaration process.

Claiming Gift Aid

Donor Specifications

To claim Gift Aid, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Gift aid Reporting page.

2. Select the Gift Aid tab to see the transactions that have been paid with Gift Aid selected.

3. You can filter the transactions by date if needed.

4. To download the transactions, select ‘Export to CSV’ at the bottom of the table.

5. You will then need to disclose this transaction data to HMRC to claim Gift Aid.

For Gift Aid to be claimed, the donor must

Have paid the same amount or more in income tax or Capital gains tax in that tax year.
Make a Gift Aid declaration that permits you to claim it.

To claim Gift aid, you must be recognised as a charity or community amateur sports club (CASC).

Example

The donator is a basic rate taxpayer and pays HMRC over earnings of £125, £25 in tax (20%). The donor is left with £100, which they donate to charity. When the donor makes a Gift Aid declaration, the charity can claim the tax paid to HRMC, i.e. £25. This means that the total donation received after claiming Gift Aid is £125.