Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

The personal relationships most givers have with their church means that churches generally have a good track record in encouraging folks to Gift Aid their giving. But there is no room for complacency either in recruitment or in administering Gift Aid in the local church. New church members may not be familiar with Gift Aid or anxious about tax and giving and they must be aware that they must have paid enough tax to cover the Gift Aid claims on all their charitable giving in a given tax year. The recipe for Gift Aid sucess is good promotion, good administration and awareness of the pitfalls - and that goes for GASDS too.