Donations may be sent to the RSN or made by MasterCard or Visa credit cards over the phone. Please remember to Gift Aid your donation wherever possible (see below for full Gift Aid information).
Gift Aid
Over many years as Friends of the Royal School of Needlework you have, through your continuing interest in the craft and your generosity, provided important financial support to enable the School of continue its tradition in providing Apprentice training.
Thanks to changes in the laws of this country, the School can now enhance this existing financial support by utilising the Inland Revenue Gift Aid Scheme and to that end we will now be able to formalise the position and set a Scheme in motion for the School.
What does Gift Aid mean?
Gift Aid is a Scheme by which any person who is a UK Resident and who makes a donation to a Registered Charity, like the Royal School, can by simple declaration enable the Charity to recover Income Tax from the Government on that donation. (The only proviso is that the person who makes that donation must have paid taxes on income or capital gains equal to the tax reclaimed by the School).
How does Gift Aid affect me, the Donor?
It does not affect you at all, as long as you have paid or have had deducted tax as previously mentioned. However if you are a higher rate taxpayer then you will be able to claim further tax relief on the difference between basic rate and higher rate income tax. All that has to be done is for you to complete a declaration form.
