{"id":8102,"date":"2010-01-30T07:05:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gift-aid-beware-the-hidden-catch\/"},"modified":"2016-03-16T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T04:14:18","slug":"gift-aid-beware-the-hidden-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gift-aid-beware-the-hidden-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift aid \u2013 beware the hidden catch"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAnything to encourage giving more must be a good thing, right? Not always, warns Rupert Jones \u2013 that bag you’ve taken to the charity shop could contain a nasty surpriseIf you have taken a bag of unwanted items to a charity shop recently, there is a good chance one of the volunteers will have tapped you on the shoulder and asked you to sign up to a gift aid scheme.A growing number of charity shops are inviting people to boost the value of their donated clothes, books and CDs simply by filling in a gift aid declaration\u00ad form. This allows the charity\u00ad to reclaim gift aid on the amount of money that your unwanted jumper or pair of shoes is sold for. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Anything to encourage giving more must be a good thing, right? 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