Payroll giving is an easy way to donate regularly to our hospice straight from your gross salary. And because it’s tax free, what you give is worth even more at no cost to you. So we can share the buzz of your payday feeling every time!
For every £1 you donate, we’ll receive an extra 20p from HMRC – so a donation of £5 per month would actually cost you just £4 (at the standard tax rate of 20 per cent) or just £3 if you’re a higher rate tax payer.
Donating to our hospice through payroll giving is really easy to do. Your employer will simply deduct your chosen amount from your salary each month, before tax is taken. So on payday, you can sit back, relax, and feel great knowing you’re helping families in your community.
Getting started
Speak to your employer
Let your HR or Payroll department know that you want to sign up to the payroll giving scheme. More information on how they can set up a scheme (if they don’t have one) can be found below.
Choose your amount
You can donate as much or as little as you’d like. You can choose how frequently you give too.
Share that payday feeling
Every time you’re paid, your Payroll department will deduct your donation from your salary and send it to our hospice, so we can all share in the buzz of payday.
Your support makes a real difference
Regular and reliable donations – like those we receive through payroll giving – help us plan for the future and mean we can continue to provide specialist support to local families who need us. Thanks to generous people like you, last year…
- We provided 4,213 days of ward care at our hospice
- Our Community team made 4,569 home visits and 7,203 planned telephone calls to patients
- 23,660 hot and cold drinks were made for patients by volunteers.
For more information about the care we provide, visit our What We Do page.
FAQs for Employees
Simply contact your HR or Payroll department to let them know you’d like to sign up to the payroll giving scheme. You can donate as much or as little as you’d like.
Donations are usually monthly but you can set your own payment schedule. You can also pause or stop your giving at any time, so there are no long-term financial commitments.
Payroll giving comes directly from your gross salary. The donation is tax free meaning you don’t pay income tax or national insurance on the donated amount. St Catherine’s receives the full amount immediately. Gift aid donations are made from your post-tax income. St Catherine’s has to claim the tax back via HMRC. Donating via payroll giving therefore saves us time and administration.
If you change jobs your payroll giving donations will end automatically. Please make sure to ask your new employer if they have a payroll giving scheme in place so you can set it up in your new role. If you retire, check with your employer as some also run the scheme on pensions so you can continue to give to the charities you care about.
Information for Employers
Setting up a Payroll Giving scheme is easy, free, and a great way to encourage staff to give a regular gift to charity. It’s also an excellent way to engage them and boost your employee benefits package. Your employees can support any charity of their choice, as well as the one selected as your company’s preferred charity, demonstrating that you support what’s important to them.
How does payroll giving work?
- Register with a payroll giving agency, you can find a list of approved agencies on the government website
- Promote your payroll giving scheme to your staff
- Deduct employees’ donations from their salary using your normal payroll software
- Send the employees’ names and donation amounts to your agency every pay run (normally monthly)
- St Catherine’s and any other nominated charities will receive your employees’ donations directly from your agency.
Consider match funding
Add extra value to your employee benefits package and CSR programme by match funding employee donations. For a set time, to kickstart your scheme, or on a permanent basis, you could single, double, or even triple-match each donation.
If you have any questions about payroll giving or other ways your company can support our hospice, please call our Corporate Fundraising team on 01293 447365 or email corporate@stch.org.uk.
