Claim an extra 25% on eligible gifts without the paperwork.
Gift Aid adds 25p to every eligible £1 donated, at no extra cost to the donor. The catch has always been the paperwork — declarations, spreadsheets, and manual HMRC submissions that eat into a small team's time.
Automating capture at the point of giving, and submitting claims directly from your dashboard, removes almost all of that manual work while keeping a clean audit trail.
Where most Gift Aid gets lost
It is rarely the declaration itself that trips charities up — it is everything around it. A paper form filled in at an event and never digitised. A donor who ticks the box online but whose details never make it into the right spreadsheet. A claim that is technically valid but missed the submission window because nobody had time to compile it that quarter.
Each of these is a small, understandable gap. Added together across a year, they can represent thousands of pounds in Gift Aid that was legitimately owed and simply never claimed.
“Gift Aid is not extra income you have to earn. It is income you have already earned and only need to collect.”
What automation actually changes
The declaration is captured once, at the moment of giving — online, on a kiosk, or via a card terminal — and stored against that donor permanently, so it never needs to be re-collected for future gifts from the same person.
From there, eligible donations are flagged automatically, aggregated, and prepared in the exact format HMRC expects. Submission becomes a single action from your dashboard rather than a quarterly project.
A clean audit trail, without the spreadsheet
HMRC compliance depends on being able to show your working: which gifts were claimed, when, and on what basis. Doing that in spreadsheets means the audit trail lives in someone's memory of which version is current. An automated system keeps that history against every donation permanently, so answering an audit question takes minutes rather than an afternoon of searching.
None of this changes what Gift Aid is — it simply removes the reasons charities have historically left it on the table. The gifts your supporters already made are still there to claim; automating the process is what makes sure you actually do.
