Gift Aid Awareness Day: The difference ‘ticking the box’ makes to Weldmar when donating items to our charity shops

9th October 2025

You can make your donations to Weldmar go further by making sure you tick the box for Gift Aid.

If you are a UK taxpayer, we can claim an extra 25p for every £1 that you donate. So, if you donate £20 we can claim an extra £5, making your gift worth £25! It’s easy to do and is at no extra cost to you. This includes regular or one off donations, the sales on items you donate to our shops, and event sponsorship – and it can make a huge difference.

For example, last year*, Weldmar reclaimed £353,711 in Gift Aid from donated items sold in our charity shops. This would pay for our Specialist Hospice at Home Service for an entire week, meaning that patients at home across Dorset can receive care, support, comfort and dignity from their locally based team of Weldmar Community Nurses, Health Care Assistants, and Assistant Practitioners.

So, if you’re heading into one of our charity shops with some items to donate, please make sure that you ask to Gift Aid.

You’ll be pleased to know that paperwork is minimal! All that is required is the completion of a simple form, which merely requires your name, address including postcode, and a signature requesting the charity to treat your donation and all future donations as Gift Aid donations. This declaration only needs to be completed once in order to cover all future donations to the charity which you may choose to make. It may, of course, be cancelled at any time.

We can even claim Gift Aid retrospectively, on any donations that you’ve made in the past four years. Think you qualify? Fill in the form below to declare your Gift Aid status.

*1st April 2024 to 31st March 2025

Gift Aid Online Declaration

Name*
Prefix First Last
Address*
Street Address Address Line 2 City County / State / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country
Email*
Gift Aid Declaration
- Choose this option to allow us to claim Gift Aid. I am a UK taxpayer and I want Weldmar Hospicecare to Gift Aid my donation and donations I make in the future or have made in the past 4 years to Weldmar Hospicecare. I understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations in that tax year it is my responsibility to pay any difference.
- Choose this option if you wish to cancel your Gift Aid declaration.
- Choose this option if you have changed your name or home address to the above.
- Choose this option if you no longer pay sufficient tax on your income and/or capital gains.
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.
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Gift Aid Declaration
- Tick this box for us to claim Gift Aid. I am a UK taxpayer and I want Weldmar Hospicecare to Gift Aid my donation and donations I make in the future or have made in the past 4 years to Weldmar Hospicecare. I understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations in that tax year it is my responsibility to pay any difference.
- Tick this box if you wish to cancel your existing Gift Aid declaration
- Tick this box if you have changed your name or home address
- Tick this box if you no longer pay sufficient tax on your income and/or capital gains
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.