How to help CUCA
There are many ways you can help CUCA. These include:
- Send a cheque or make a bankers order.
- Donate online.
- Regular donations via Standing Order.
- Complete a Gift Aid declaration.
- Tax-efficient giving from the US.
- Give company shares.
- Make a bequest.
- Tell your colleagues, friends and relatives.
These are explained below:
Cheques or Bankers Orders
Cheques should be made payable to 'Fisher House CUCA'.
Bankers orders or sterling drafts drawn on a UK bank should use this reference:
IBAN: GB48 BARC 2017 1940 2009 13
Swift Bic: BARC GB 22
Give Now Online
All major credit or debit cards can be used to make donations now to Fisher House. The Charities Aid Foundation provides a secure service for our online donations. Click here to donate now.
Regular Donations
Regular donations can be made by standing order via your bank, building society or CAF account. You can download the Standing Order form here.
Gift Aid
If you are a UK tax payer and complete a Gift Aid declaration your gift will be increased by 28p for every £1 given. A gift of £100 becomes £128, £5,000 becomes £6,410. Higher rate tax payers can also reclaim the difference between basic and higher rate tax on donations:
Please download the Gift Aid Declaration Form, complete it and return it to CUCA:
Fisher House,
Guildhall Street,
Cambridge, CB2 3NH
Alternatively, e-mail the office () including your name and postcode and the words: "I am a UK tax payer and I wish that any gift of money that I make, or have made since 6th April 2000, to CUCA be treated as a Gift Aid Donation. I understand that the amount of tax CUCA may reclaim on my donations for any financial year must not exceed the amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax that I pay in that financial year."
Tax efficient giving from the US
Donations can be made from the USA, avoiding tax, by contacting 'Cambridge in America' and specifying that you wish to support 'Fisher House CUCA'.
Cambridge in America
100 Avenue of the Americas, 4th Floor
New York 10013
Telephone: 212-984-0960
www.cantab.org
Donate Shares
Gifts of shares or securities or other property is a very tax-efficient way of benefiting the Chaplaincy. Relief will be given to the donor for the full value of the shares or securities in addition to any existing capital gains tax relief. Make donations to 'Fisher House CUCA' (Registered Charity Number: 214454).
Legacy
Remember the Chaplaincy in your will. To ensure any bequest is free of inheritance tax, it should be made to 'Fisher House CUCA'. The charity registration number is 214454. Click here for more information.