Geared for Giving Campaign

In May 2008 I launched the Geared for Giving Campaign with Dragon Den’s entrepreneur, Duncan Bannatyne.  The objective of the Campaign is to encourage Employers, across the UK to introduce and promote a Workplace Giving Scheme (also known as Payroll Giving or Give As You Earn) so that 1 million more employees have easy access to the scheme.  These schemes allow your employees to give to any charity, tax effectively, directly from their pay.

Being Geared for Giving means taking an informed decision about Workplace Giving. It’s all about giving to good causes at work, direct from your salary. Any charity, any cause. Your chosen charity receives your donation tax free. So what you give could go up to 40% further. It means some 390,000 charities in the UK could be a whole lot better off.

Are you among the 70% of people in the UK who give to charity? Did you know over £900m is lost by UK charities each year – vital funds that wouldn’t be lost if donations were made via Workplace Giving? It’s quite simply the best way to give.

Will you help change how we all give?

Will you help the UK become Geared for Giving? Over 750,000 employees already give this way – but why not more? It’s simple. Not enough companies participate in the scheme. And not enough employees are aware of its benefits.

We want 1m more people to be Geared for Giving at work. Employer or employee, will you help change the way we all give to charity?

To find our more visit the Campaign website at www.gearedforgiving.com

Since the launch over 650,000 more employees have access to the scheme, so we are well on our way to 1 million.