Gift Aid and GASDS
Small donations (GASDS)
Contactless gifts of £30 or less can count towards GASDS. GASDS top-ups are tracked against HMRC's limits for each building.
What is GASDS, and how does my charity benefit?
The Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) lets eligible charities claim a 25% top-up on cash and contactless donations of £30 or less, without a Gift Aid declaration. You can claim on up to £8,000 of small donations a year, which is up to £2,000 in top-ups. There is one condition, the matching rule: in the same tax year, your small donations can be at most 10 times the donations you have claimed Gift Aid on. So for every £10 of small donations, you need at least £1 of donations with Gift Aid claimed. SwiftCause tracks GASDS-eligible donations for you.
How SwiftCause handles GASDS
- Contactless gifts of £30 or less can count towards GASDS.
- GASDS top-ups are tracked against HMRC's limits for each building.
- Up to 1,000 rows per file, with small donations grouped as HMRC allows.
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