What the charities say...

Workplace Giving helps enable Action for Blind People to support over 21,000 blind and partially sighted individuals each year. We are working towards a world in which blind and partially sighted people have the same rights, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. An easy and tax efficient way to give, the Geared for Giving campaign is helping us to achieve this vision.

Alcohol Focus Scotland relies a great deal on the generosity of people like you to continue much of our work. Every single person who makes a regular gift through Workplace Giving helps us to make a difference in peoples’ lives. I am confident that with supporters like you behind us, we have every chance of achieving a culture change in Scotland where far fewer lives are affected by alcohol misuse, and moderate, responsible drinking is the norm. Every gift you give to Alcohol Focus Scotland through regular Workplace Giving makes us stronger and our impact greater.

Alzheimer Scotland see the importance in relationships: the relationships we have with people with dementia, with people who care for them and with the many, many people who wish to support them. Workplace Giving helps us to build even more relationships - relationships that truly matter.

Here at Amnesty International we stand for justice, freedom and truth for every man, women and child. Workplace Giving help us to raise the necessary funds we need to continue to plan our vital work protecting human rights.

I really believe charities should do more to open up to donors about what they ‘get’ for their money. I want to build relationships that go beyond the actual giving to take in volunteering, for example, so that people can see the reality of what we do at first hand. As a sector we often expect people to give without getting. Workplace Giving is a terrific way to start a more meaningful relationship. It’s a door opener to our world.

Giving at work means we can make a clear commitment to this kind of vital research over a sustained period. It’s difficult to overstate the importance of ‘sustained’ here. Long-term support for a study like this guarantees it can meet its objectives in a meaningful way so we can fight breast cancer with everything we’ve got.

Heart Disease touches us all. Every year, thousands die prematurely, and those who survive can find life difficult and frightening. The British Heart Foundation is the nations heart charity, dedicated to saving lives by investing in pioneering research, supporting and caring for heart patients and their families campaigning for change and providing vital information. Workplace Giving plays a vital role in ensuring regular, reliable income through an effective tax free channel.

This year alone nearly £500,000 will be donated to the British Red Cross by the kind people who give to us, month in month out, directly from their salaries. Every penny and every pound that is donated to the Red Cross through Workplace Giving makes a difference. We can’t do that without companies large and small getting behind the ‘Geared for Giving’ campaign.

Cancer Research UK supports the Geared for Giving campaign. Workplace Giving is an extremely easy and tax effective way for people to give to charities and makes a real difference to the valuable work that we carry out.

Workplace Giving is one of Centrepoint’s most reliable and efficient sources of voluntary income. It enables our supporters to give in a simple and tax effective way that helps us to house and support 800 homeless young people every night.

Workplace Giving provides a vital source of regular income for Christies, helping to fund world class cancer research and the best possible care for our patients. We urge employers to get involved in the ‘Geared for Giving’ campaign and provide their employees with a simple tax effective way to support the causes which matter to them.

The Geared for Giving campaign is a huge opportunity to increase the support we receive from Workplace Giving. This income underpins our vital cancer services for children across the UK

Crisis has ambitious plans for the future and is committed to helping more people in more places across the UK. Income from regular giving at work plays an important role in enabling us to do this. We know we won;t end homelessness overnight but it is through partners such as Workplace Giving that help Crisis deliver life-changing services to make change happen.

Fight for Sight is fully behind the Geared for Giving campaign. Fight for Sight funds research into the prevention and treatment of blindness and eye disease. many of the research projects we fund take several years to complete, which is why regular donations such as gifts made through people’s payroll are so important to us. They help us better predict our income which in turn enables us to make long term commitments to find ways of saving sight.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity supports the Geared for Giving Campaign and we hope that companies all over the UK will too. Workplace Giving provides an invaluable source of regular income and is a great way for our supporters to give in a simple and tax efficient way. It is vital for helping us to raise the £50 million a year we need to help rebuild and refurbish Great Ormond Street Hospital, provide the latest equipment and fund research into better treatments for sick children.

Income from Workplace Giving contributes greatly to the £340 million needed by the hospice movement each year. The ‘Geared for Giving’ campaign will ensure that this vital source of income will continue to fund the care provided by over 200 local hospices in the UK.

Workplace Giving has shown itself to be one of the most effective ways for people and companies to support Make-A-Wish. It is simple to set up, easy to administer and provides a reliable flow of funds. I hope employers across the UK give Geared for Giving their fullest support.

Workplace Giving raises vital income for the Mental Health Foundation’s work helping people survive, recover from and prevent mental health problems. We welcome the Geared for Giving campaign, as it will raise awareness of the important role that Workplace Giving plays in raising sustainable funds for charities

Every day, thousands of children experience abuse and suffer in silence. The NSPCC’s projects, including ChildLine and the NSPCC Helpline, are working throughout the UK to put a stop to this. We rely on the generous donations of our supporters to keep these vital services running and regular gifts like those made through Workplace Giving mean we can continue to plan for the future.

We are backing the Geared for Giving campaign to raise the profile of tax-effective giving through payroll. Be part of it and help us be there for more children.

There’s a fantastic synergy in Oxfam’s supporters making regular donations through their pay packet, and the millions of people determined to work their way out of poverty around the world. If we can raise the profile of Workplace Giving just a notch in the UK through the Geared for Giving campaign, we will be able to do so much more.

Thanks to our wonderful supporters, PDSA cares for more than 350,000 pet patients. The Geared for Giving campaign will help us treat even more sick and injured animals by raising awareness of payroll giving and its vital role in generating regular income.

Here at Penny Brohn Cancer Care we rely solely on voluntary donations to keep our doors open, helping us work towards a time when everyone affected by cancer has access to life-changing complementary care. Supporting Penny Brohn Cancer Care through Geared for Giving will help us to continue to make a difference to the lives of people living with cancer.

Everyone in the RNIB group supports the Geared for Giving campaign and applauds their successful first year. An increase in awareness and take up of tax efficient giving will mean that RNIB can extend its reach to ensure that more blind and partially sighted people get the practical and emotional support they need. Thank you.

The RNLI is delighted that the Geared for Giving campaign will open the door to Workplace Giving to one million more employees. It is a wonderful opportunity to increase awareness of this tax-efficient way of donating to charity

We rely completely on donations to help us prevent animal cruelty and payroll givers provide us not only with invaluable funds, but also with the long-term support and relationships that are so important to us. Workplace Giving is an effective and tax efficient way for both companies and individuals to support us in our work to educate people on and improve animal welfare. We are proud to be a part of the ‘Geared for Giving’ campaign.

Millions of children are still denied proper healthcare, food, education and protection. We provide direct help when and where it matters. Save the Children UK works in over 50 countries around the world, including the UK.

We’re outraged that over 9 million children a year die before reaching their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable illnesses. We want 10 million people to take action by 2010. Be one of them. Make sure the very poorest children aren’t left to die.

Payroll giving is the most tax-efficient way to contribute to Save the Children. It is easy to set up and receiving regular gifts in this way allows us to plan ahead and use those funds more effectively. Geared for Giving is raising the profile of payroll giving and it has our full support.

As a small organisation providing the most comprehensive support services for the UK’s unpaid carers, The Princess Royal Trust for Carers relies heavily on the generosity of individuals.

Workplace Giving is a convenient and tax effective method to provide support, reducing our costs so that more money ends up where it’s most needed - helping carers nationwide. This is the reason why we are backing the Geared for Giving campaign.

Direct. Simple. Manageable. Tax efficient. All the above and more describes the benefits of Workplace Giving. The Roald Dahl Foundation is proud to be actively engaged with this scheme. I am delighted to know that its growth is being actively encouraged.

Donating directly from your pay remains the most tax effective way to give to charity. For UNICEF, payroll gifts provide valuable regular funds which enable us to reach more children around the world. I encourage everyone to pledge a gift today.

WWF is reliant on regular donations from our generous supporters to continue our vital work to protect threatened species and habitats, and address global issues such as climate change and unsustainable consumption. Supporting WWF through Geared for Giving is a great way to help our work.