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Gift Aid

Gift Aid is a formal, but flexible, arrangement of giving to the Church.

It can take one or more of the following forms:

• weekly sum given via offertory envelopes
• monthly, quarterly or annual standing orders
• cheques for regular or one-off gifts

Since the Church is a registered charity, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will refund to the parish, tax already paid by individuals on money given in church collections. So if you are a tax payer it would be of great financial benefit to the parish if you were to make a gift aid declaration. If you are a higher rate tax payer, you may be able to reclaim the difference between the standard tax rate and your higher rate from HMRC. Further information regarding Gift Aid can be found on the HMRC website or from the local tax office. Our Parish Gift Aid Administrators, Tristan Williams and Alexandra Bolton, are happy to help and to provide further information.

If you wish to join the OLC Gift Aid scheme or to give by standing order, please Email Tristan using the link below with your address, and he will get a form to you as soon as possible.

Any Gift Aider who wishes to make a gift by cheque and wishes that gift to be eligible for Gift Aid, should please ensure that the cheque is made payable to "OLC Saffron Walden".

Gift Aid update for tax year 2008/9

Thank you to all parishioners who participated in the Gift Aid scheme last year - the parish was able to recover £15839.55 from HM Revenue and Customs after the diocesan commission, with 99 gift-aiders contributing this year.

Contacts: Tristan Williams and Alexandra Bolton.