Payroll Giving Quality Mark
The Payroll Giving Quality Mark promotes and celebrates the commitment of companies who offer Payroll Giving to their employees.
As an on going commitment to tax effective giving the Office of the Third Sector together with the Institute of Fundraising, launched the "Payroll Giving Quality Mark" scheme to recognise the commitment of private and public organisations who offer the opportunity to employees to donate to charities tax effectively.
The Payroll Giving Quality Mark falls into four categories;
- Gold – This is awarded to employers who have 10% or more of its employees giving through Payroll Giving, plus the company either matches the employees’ donations, pays the administration or actively promoting Payroll Giving in the workplace in the past year.
- Silver recognises that employers have a 5 to 9.99% participation level in Payroll Giving
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Bronze is awarded to companies who have 1 to 4.99% of employees donating through Payroll Giving
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Generic – A generic certificate is awarded to companies who have a Payroll Giving scheme in place but have less than 1% uptake, which could possibly be due to only recently launching a Payroll Giving scheme in the workplace.
Charities Trust proactively works with its clients to assist in promoting the scheme to employees in the best possible way. With Charities Trust's support many of our clients have achieved fantastic results, with 42% receiving a Gold award this year (a massive increase from 20% last year).
For ideas on how to promote and have a successful scheme click “Go for Gold”.
IDuring May & June 2007 all of Charities Trust's clients will receive their certificate and a new Payroll Giving Quality Mark logo (CD Rom). For companies achieving Gold status, each company will receive a letter direct from Ed Milliband MP, Minister for the Third Sector, congratulating the company.
If you are a Charities Trust client you will not need to apply for your award, as our Payroll Giving adminsitration team aim to keep up to date records, which enable Charities Trust to send certificates direct without a request from the employer.
NEW for 2007. If your company has achieved the Payroll Giving Gold Quality Mark, or even if you are on your way to achieving a higher percentage to the previous year and have implemented a novel or successful way in promoting Payroll Giving to your work force, you are invited to enter the first ever Payroll Giving Awards ceremony. Details will be included with your certificate, or you can download the information Payroll Giving Quality Awards application form.
Whether you employ a few or thousands of employees’ every tax effective donation through Payroll Giving makes the world of different to charities. If you would like to run a successful Payroll Giving scheme and achieve Gold, visit Go for Gold or contact our Marketing team who will be happy to assist you in putting together ideas so you can achieve a Gold Payroll Giving award in the future.
