Jack Monroe #161 Jack Monroe is away, yo

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Shawads said:
What the actual? I don't think I've ever had to put my name on anything I've ever donated. Even peoples online money raising things allow you to donate anonymously!
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Boring update: if you want to gift aid when you donate to a charity (and you need to be a tax payer) you need to give your name/postcode/gift aid number.

If you just provide your name that will usually not be enough to identify you in the gift aid database.

However, this is only how I found it in the charity shop I volunteer in, not in the food bank Jack donates to under the cover of daylight.
 
colouredlines said:
Do we think that Jack might be spending this time triangulating? Imagine your buzzer goes off and you think it's a parcel but when you answer it you get, "Hi, I'm Jack Monroe. Writer, activist, single mum, author, TV presenter, accidental conqueror of my deepest fears..."
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Giggling so much at this. I keep saying this intro in my head. I feel like if I say it out loud to anyone in real life they will look at me funny.
 
colouredlines said:
Do we think that Jack might be spending this time triangulating? Imagine your buzzer goes off and you think it's a parcel but when you answer it you get, "Hi, I'm Jack Monroe. Writer, activist, single mum, author, TV presenter, accidental conqueror of my deepest fears..."
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Ha! I'd force feed her a Vegemite sandwich then lock her in the shed with a few softy soft floofy Huntsman spiders. Lmao.
 
Into_the_tunnel said:
Boring update: if you want to gift aid when you donate to a charity (and you need to be a tax payer) you need to give your name/postcode/gift aid number.

If you just provide your name that will usually not be enough to identify you in the gift aid database.

However, this is only how I found it in the charity shop I volunteer in, not in the food bank Jack donates to under the cover of daylight.
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I never do gift aid because it just feels too time consuming, is this something I should do if we ever get to go into chazzas again? I'm sort of glad they're closed atm, I'm saving a fair bit of money. I might make a YouTube cartoon about it.
 
Shawads said:
I never do gift aid because it just feels too time consuming, is this something I should do if we ever get to go into chazzas again? I'm sort of glad they're closed atm, I'm saving a fair bit of money. I might make a YouTube cartoon about it.
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We have a lot of stuff to a charity shop when we moved and gift aided it. About a year later I got a lovely letter saying how much they’d made and how much gift aid they’d been able to get back. Was a tidy sum! So well worth it.
 
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