Gift Aid: Information and Membership

ARCHDIOCESE OF BIRMINGHAM PARISH OF

ST CHAD AND ALL SAINTS - AND

ST PETER AND THE ENGLISH MARTYRS

GIFT AID DONATIONS

INTRODUCTION
The finances at both St Chad’s and St Peter’s need a boost to ensure that we are covering the rising costs of energy, repairs and maintenance etc.

As parishioners already give generously, one way of increasing parish income without asking you to give more is by asking more eligible parishioners to Gift Aid their donations.

If you are a UK taxpayer and give a donation to the offertory basket or bag, please consider signing a Gift Aid Declaration so that the church can claim an extra 25% of your donation from His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The small amount of extra income from each person’s Gift Aid can help the parishes enormously. For example, if you already give £5 each week, that will mean an extra £65 over the course of a year. If 10 more donors in each parish were able to Gift Aid their £5 donations, that would be an extra £650 for each, which would cover much of the winter heating bills in each church.

Full information about the Gift Aid scheme is given below, including details about how to join the scheme. If you have any further queries that are not addressed, then please contact the person shown below in the box with the telphones.

GIFT AID INFORMATION FOR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Gift Aid is a simple way for tax-payers to get HMRC to add 25p to every £1 that you donate to the Church. Please see examples in the table below how ‘gift aiding’ your donations increases the overall income for parishes. E.g., if you give £5 each week to the first collection – being able to claim

Gift Aid on this means that you are in effect donating £6.25 – an extra £65.00 per year!

Weekly amount donated (£)	Total amount donated in the year (£)	Amount of Gift Aid claimed (£)	Total donations (£)
3	156	39	195
5	260	65	325
10	520	130	650

For the Parish to be able to claim Gift Aid back on money that you donate, there are three conditions:

you must be a UK tax-payer on income, savings or capital gains
you will need to sign a Gift Aid Declaration (see below for details)
you should make your donations in a numbered envelope allocated to you (alternatively you can complete a Standing Order
to your bank instructing them to transfer a monthly donation to the Parish).

If using envelopes, you do not have to commit to donate a fixed amount each week. The amount you donate can vary each week and
weeks can be missed. It is your overall donation in each tax year on which the Gift Aid is claimed.
Please note that any Gift Aid donations that you make in a tax year should not exceed the amount of tax you pay in that year.
Joining the scheme will not affect your tax payments. You do not have to provide details of employment, income, tax or even your
NI number - all that is required is your full name and address.
Once you have made a signed Gift Aid declaration for the Parish, it continues to be valid until you cease to be a tax-payer - at
whichpoint please notify us. Please also notify us of any change of personal details such as your address.

What to do next:
If you are a tax-payer and would like your Parish to benefit more from your generosity, then please complete a Gift Aid Declaration form available from
the church wardens at St Chad’s or from Helen Jones at St Peter’s - or print your own from the next section below.

Please return your completed forms to them as soon as conveniently possible.

These will then be processed by Paul Abbiss for St Chad’s or Nick Ford for St Peter’s.

If you have opted for weekly envelopes, a box of numbered envelopes will be given to you.

Thank you for your continued support of the Gornal and Sedgley RC parishes.

PRINT YOUR OWN FORM IF YOU WISH

'Gift Aid' Declaration forms are also available in this section The two-pages form cannot be filled-in online because we need to complete page 3 manually before submitting them to the Archdiocese. Click the blue button below for your own church to download and then print the two individualised pages back-to-back. Complete all the appropriate sections and bring your form with you when you attend next time. There are two forms - one for St Chad and one for St Peter church.
Parish name: ST CHAD AND ALL SAINTS Parish number: 155 Click the blue button below to get the correct declaration form	Parish name: ST PETER AND THE ENGLISH MARTYRS Parish number: 133 Click the blue button below to get the correct declaration form
When you click either of the blue buttons above the download will start automatically and will save the file in the same location you always use for storing all your downloads. When the file has finished downloading, right click on the filename and select PRINT from the drop-down menu, if you want a paper copy for ready reference. Make sure your printer is switched on to receive the printout. Before you start, please select double-sided printing on A4-size paper.

'Gift Aid' Declaration forms are also available in this section
The two-pages form cannot be filled-in online because we need to complete page 3 manually before submitting them to the Archdiocese.
Click the blue button below for your own church to download and then print the two individualised pages back-to-back.
Complete all the appropriate sections and bring your form with you when you attend next time.
There are two forms - one for St Chad and one for St Peter church.

Parish name: ST CHAD AND ALL SAINTS
Parish number: 155

Click the blue button below to get the correct declaration form

Parish name: ST PETER AND THE ENGLISH MARTYRS
Parish number: 133

Click the blue button below to get the correct declaration form

When you click either of the blue buttons above the download will start automatically and will save the file in the same location you always use for storing all your downloads.
When the file has finished downloading, right click on the filename and select PRINT from the drop-down menu, if you want a paper copy for ready reference.
Make sure your printer is switched on to receive the printout. Before you start, please select double-sided printing on A4-size paper.

CONTACTS TELEPHONES

Contacts for help or more information on the Gift Aid scheme

• St Chad's Church, Sedgley: Paul Abbiss - 07743 782312

• St Peter's Church, Lower Gornal: Nick Ford - 07851 681603