St Peter's Church Parish News

Parish Priest
The Reverend Tim Marwood
The Vicarage
Bute Avenue
Petersham
TW10 7AX
Charitable Giving:
Give As You Earn
Many pensioners do not know that the government’s
Give As You Earn (GAYE) scheme applies to pensions as well as salaries and
wages. GAYE falls within PAYE so if your pension is taxed before you get it the
provider can operate a GAYE scheme and probably does. The advantage of GAYE is
that your monthly contributions are deducted from your pension before any Income
Tax is calculated and so they are allowed at the highest rate paid.
The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) operates a Charity Account for personal
donors with a minimum monthly contribution of £10. For every £10 credited to
your account the cost to you is £7.80 if your highest rate is 22% or £6 if your
highest tax rate is 40%. Put another way, after CAF’s administration fee of 4%
you have £12.30 to give to charity for every net £10 you contribute if your top
rate is 22% and £16 if you pay tax at the higher rate.
With your CAF account you get a cheque book for one-off donations with a debit
card; you can set up standing orders for regular contributions; and you get a
quarterly statement of account from CAF setting out the transactions on your
account with a current list of future standing orders. One point of interest is
that a CAF cheque is more secure than a bank cheque as if it should be
intercepted it can be banked only by a charity.
For more information go to www.cafonline.org
or write to CAF (Charities Aid Foundation), 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill,
West Malling, Kent ME19 4TA or telephone 01732 520 000
Charitable Giving: Local Charities
Most of us receive plenty of reminders of the needs of
national charities but there are local
charities, too, whose needs are also great but with fundraising budgets that
don’t run to mail shots. They look to local supporters and deserve our
consideration.
Here are a few charities connected with Petersham or nearby that deserve to be
supported with brief details of each charity’s formal interest. After each name
is the Charity Commission Registered Number. You can look up greater detail of
the charitable interest and a summary of recent income and expenditure of each
charity (if they are above the minimum reporting level of £10,000) on the
Charity Commission website
www.charity-commission.gov.uk.
- Petersham United
Charities (which includes Petersham Relief in Need Charity and Petersham
Educational Charity) (200433)
Supporting financially residents who are in need, hardship or distress.
Promoting the education of young residents who are in need of financial
assistance.
- Petersham Trust
(1077284)
The preservation of Petersham Meadows.
- The Petersham and Ham Sea
Scouts (303819)
Promoting the development of young people in achieving their full physical,
intellectual, social and spiritual potentials.
- Ham and Petersham
District Girl Guides (292536)
The instruction of girls in the principles of discipline, loyalty and good
citizenship.
- The Friends of St Peter’s
Petersham (271555)
Maintaining and promoting appreciation of St Peter’s Church.
- The Richmond Society
(285805)
Promoting high standards of planning and architecture and securing the
preserva tion of features of beauty or historic interest in Richmond, Kew,
Petersham and Ham.
In addition, there is SPEAR
www.spearlondon.org which,
despite its name operates mainly in Richmond. Their mission is “To enable
homeless people to access accommodation, and those at risk of homelessness to
maintain their accommodation. To support all our service users to the point
that they no longer need us.” Donations to SPEAR are treated as charitable for
tax purposes.
Spare a thought for these charities and give a donation to help them
in their good work! Best of all, write a standing order !
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