I got

[thunderlizard]

my chasing the aurora money back from justgiving - did anyone else???

That's a blessing.

But they ought now to change their name to MainlyGivingButOccasionallyRefunding.com.

[MrRobin]

how can they take the gift aid??? the whole idea is that it's for the charity!!

Sorry, I need to add some brackets in there.

(donation + gift aid) * 5%

[Ardesco]

They take a 5% fee of the amount after gift aid has been calculated, they don't take gift aid as thier cut comes from the original donation.

Work it out the figures, if they took 5% off and then claimed gift aid on the outstanding amount the charity would get the same as if they take 5% off the amount of the donation + gift aid.

e.g with gift aid

Donation = £10
Gift Aid = £2.82
Justgiving Gets 5% of £12.82 = £0.64
Charity Gets £12.82-£0.64 = £12.18

Without gift aid

Donation = £10
Justgiving Gets 5% of £10.00 = £0.50
Gift Aid of £9.50 = £2.68
Charity Gets 9.50 + £2.68 = £12.18

As you can see the charity gets the same either way.

All explained in a very detailed way on thier website, and it actually results in a lot of the smaller charities getting more, as they don't generally claim gift aid back because of the cost of getting accountants to do it for them.

The fee's are actually quite competative, they get low credit card fee's because they put through a large volume of credit card payments (so card fees are much lower than any small charity could get) and a 5% fee for all the accounting work involved in claiming gift aid back is quite competative.

http://www.justgiving.com/Statements...w_it_works.asp

Details above

[cailin maith]

It was the SSAFA

Justgiving take 5% of the donation + gift aid reclamation

how can they take the gift aid??? the whole idea is that it's for the charity!!

[cailin maith]

The idea is not to spend the money on yourself

smartarse

[MrRobin]

It was the SSAFA

Justgiving take 5% of the donation + gift aid reclamation

[DiscoStu]

Don't do it through justgiving, they take a cut. Try and donate directly to the charity, that way they get the whole amount.

[Ardesco]

Good thinking... although I can't remember which charity it was... don't suppose it matters too much....

Maybe I should find a mental health one ..... probably a bit more apt

http://www.justgiving.com/alzheimerssoc

HTH

[oracleslave]

Maybe I should find a mental health one ..... probably a bit more apt

The idea is not to spend the money on yourself

[cailin maith]

You can always just donate to it anyway:

http://www.justgiving.com/britishlegion

or whichever charity it was.

Good thinking... although I can't remember which charity it was... don't suppose it matters too much....

Maybe I should find a mental health one ..... probably a bit more apt

[Ardesco]

You can always just donate to it anyway:

http://www.justgiving.com/britishlegion

or whichever charity it was.

[cailin maith]

I feel a bit bad that the charity got nothing....

[DimPrawn]

Me too. Psycho nutter he was.

[realityhack]

Nope

[cailin maith]

my chasing the aurora money back from justgiving - did anyone else???