Get Involved: Gift Aid
The quickest & easiest way to support us financially is to make an online donation using one of the options below:
Gift Aid declaration online form
Thank you for choosing to sign up for Gift Aid online.
Southampton City Mission will receive an extra 25p for every £1 you donate under the Gift Aid scheme, at no extra cost to you. Please fill in our short form below to make your Gift Aid declaration.
If you would prefer to complete a paper form and post it to us, please click here.
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If your gift aid status changes.
Please notify Southampton City Mission if you:
- Want to cancel this declaration
- Change your name or home address
- No longer pay sufficient tax on your income and/or capital gains.
Higher rate taxpayers
If you pay Income Tax at the higher or additional rate and want to receive the
additional tax relief due to you, you must include all your Gift Aid donations on your
Self-Assessment tax return or ask HM Revenue and Customs to adjust your tax
code.
We deliberately keep Southampton City Mission as a small hub, taking in donations for free and giving them away for free, equipping and training volunteers to run the projects and serve the city. We have six full-time staff members and four part-time staff, as well as about 200 volunteers who do everything from packing food parcels and van driving, to schools work and admin support.
As well as wages and volunteer expenses we have two vans to keep running, schools materials to buy, office rent, and all of the usual running costs of a small charity. We are very grateful to all of our church partners who host our Basics Banks as they all give us the rooms and utilities for free.
It is a much easier job to attract donations of food and clothes for those in need, than it is to raise regular, dependable income to pay for the charity which runs those projects! The majority of our income as a charity comes from individuals and church communities giving us donations. We also apply for some funding and grants from charitable trusts and local government.