My Charity Page - How It Works

By creating a profile page you will make fundraising easy!

Select "get a charity page" from the left hand navigation and you will be asked to create your charity account.

Your username will make up the end of your personal URL e.g. if your username was 'bethsmarathon' your personal charity page would be www.mycharitypage.com/bethsmarathon. This will allow your friends, family and colleagues or even complete strangers to log on to your page and donate online by credit and debit card towards your fundraising activities.

You will be able to upload your photo to your profile page and send an invitation to your friends to join.

You can edit your profile page at any time by clicking on {edit}, on the top user navigation bar, where you can change your profile, status, photo and privacy settings.

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By selecting 'my events' you will be able to select your chosen charity and set up your event. You can explain in your own words what you are attempting, when your event takes place and even explain why you have chosen a certain charity. You will be able to write a personal message to people visiting your page. Once you have completed an event you can select it as completed and set up another event. Your 'completed events' will be listed on your profile page.

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By selecting 'media' on the top user navigation bar, you can upload pictures and videos of your fundraising event, training or even photos related to your charities cause. Your friends will be able to view these on your profile page. Select 'media' and 'create new album'. You can upload pictures and videos to your saved albums once you've named your album and selected the privacy settings you'd like.

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Your blog will allow you to keep your friends updated with your ongoing attempt, your training or any other fundraising activities. Your blog page even allows you to upload pictures and videos! When you're logged in select 'blog' from the top user navigation bar and compose an entry.

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You can add friends to your page. Once you have added a friend you will be able to send your friends personal messages.

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Once you have set up your profile page you can create or join groups. By joining a group you will able to interact with other users that have something in common e.g. a group for people all raising funds for the same charity or all taking part in the same event. Select 'groups' from the top user navigation and you can search for new groups to join or create a new group. Additionally the group page will show the total donations the group has raised.

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You can send messages to other my charity page fundraisers. Select 'messages' from the top user navigation bar. Select the 'new message' tab, enter the username, then write and send your message.

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You can use the forum to chat with other fundraisers, get information, fundraising tips, training tips or even ideas for your next event. Add a new thread or post your response. You can add images, web links or video links. The forums are accessed on the left hand navigation.

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When a user logs onto your charity page they can select 'donate now'

They will then be taken to a donation payment page. If they decide to donate £10 to your fundraising their credit or debit card will be charged with £10 + 2.75% transaction charge or £10.27. If your donor is a UK tax payer and selects the gift aid box as well as providing their full name and address, My Charity Page will claim the Gift Aid tax back for your charity. Your charity will then receive £12.82. My Charity Page will NOT deduct any commission or administration charges.

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Gift Aid allows charities to claim back 25% on every donation from individuals who are eligible to claim gift aid, in accordance with the requirements of the Gift Aid Scheme, as they apply from time to time. In addition a transitional relief of 3.2% will be repaid to charities (for donations from 6th April 2007 to 5th April 2011). Therefore Gift Aid allows charities to reclaim effectively a total of 28.2%.

All donors, who are UK taxpayers, can make a declaration that makes them eligible for Gift Aid reclaims. To apply for Gift Aid you must pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax at least equal to the tax that the charity reclaims on your donation in the appropriate tax year. You can only make a Gift Aid declaration on your own money. You cannot make a declaration on behalf of someone else or on behalf of a company.

We accept no responsibility for donors who choose not to use Gift Aid, or those who apply to use Gift Aid but who do not qualify.

When you donate you enter your full name, home address including postcode and confirm you wish for Gift Aid to be reclaimed on your donation. We will pass this information onto the Charity and HMRC for the purposes of reclaiming tax on behalf of the charity.

You can make a donation and remain anonymous, but if you remain anonymous you can't apply for gift aid on your donation, as full details (as detailed above) are required by us to reclaim gift aid.

Any information from which it is possible to personally identify people which is captured (including: donor's full name, address and email address) will be captured in a secure manner, processed and stored at all times in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

My Charity Page Limited will comply with any instructions of all donors in respect of their personal data and My Charity Page will not pass any such personal data to any third party without the donor's consent.

Example: Mr J Smith donates £100 to his friends fundraising. Mr J Smith confirms that he is a UK Tax payer and provides his home address. Mr J Smith's £100 donation is treated as being made after deduction of basic rate tax at 20%. The gross value of the donation before tax is £125 (£100.00 × 100/80), - this is the amount of money you would need to earn to receive £100.00 after tax. The charity can claim the £25 of basic rate tax (£100.00 × 20/80) that the taxpayer is treated as having paid on the gift, effectively an extra 25% on top of the value of the £100.00 donation.

HMRC will pay a further 3.2% transitional relief (after Royal Assent) i.e. £3.20.

In summary the charity will receive £100 from Mr J Smith plus a £28.20 refund from HMRC a total of £128.20.

Where a fundraising event has been part or fully funded by a Charity, donations to these events are eligible for the Gift Aid scheme, subject to the normal requirements of the scheme being satisfied, and that includes the benefit rules. However, as the fundraiser has benefited from the Charities funding, donors can't claim gift aid if they are:

	the wife or husband of the fundraiser
	a relative (brother, sister, ancestor (e.g. mother) or lineal descendant (e.g. grandson) of the fundraiser
	the wife or husband of a relative of the fundraiser
	or a company under the control of the donor or under control of the connected persons.

Frequently these are overseas treks and bike rides to raise funds, however the same principles apply to similar events in the UK.

Full details about the Gift Aid Scheme can be found on the HMRC website:

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/charities/guidance-notes/chapter3/index.htm

or call our helpline: 0800 567 7102.

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You may raise money that isn't donated direct to your fundraisers page. You can add such donations as offline donations so they can be added to your overall fundraising total on your profile page. Select my events and select offline donations then enter the donation amount and confirm whether the charity will be claiming the gift aid on offline donations. Gift Aid on offline donations can only be claimed back by the Charity.

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Any visitor to the site can donate direct to any of the registered charities by selecting donate direct on the left hand side navigation. We will claim gift aid tax back for the charity on any direct donation subject to the gift aid declaration being completed appropriately by the donor.

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The latest charity news articles are shown in the news section, on the left hand navigation.

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All our registered charities are shown in a directory listing. This is accessed by selecting charities on the left hand navigation. You can browse the charities by category or search by keyword.

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A directory of UK and Overseas charity events are listed here. If you are an event organiser you can submit the event for approval for listing. You can browse the events by keywords, type, UK or overseas, county, and dates.

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