Regular giving
Give As You Earn!
Did you know that you may be able to double your donation to us through a ‘Give As You Earn’ employer scheme? As part of their corporate social responsibilities, many organisations are now running special payroll schemes where they match donations given by their employees to UK charities. Used by millions of employees, payroll giving is a completely tax-free, simple and flexible way for you to support your favourite charity on a regular basis.
Large companies such as BP, BT and many others enable their employees to donate to the UK charity of their choice from their gross salary (before tax is deducted). Many also offer matched funding for these donations which tops up employee contributions and significantly increases the value of the donation to the charity.
For example in 2009/2010 BT and its employees donated a combined total of more than £3.5 million to charities through payroll giving and matched funding.
In the current economic climate, Give As You Earn schemes are an ideal way of maximising the impact of your donations as well as involving businesses in helping good causes.
To help us continue funding medical research without the use of animals and to maximise your donation to us, why not contact your HR or Payroll department to see if they run a Give As You Earn scheme and if not, why not suggest that they do? You can also find out more by visiting the Give As You Earn website at www.cafonline.org.
Standing orders
To set up a standing order to give regularly to the Dr Hadwen Trust, print out and complete this form. Please send your completed form to us, NOT to your bank. Thank you.
Download a Gift Aid form here.
Here’s how your gift can help
£10 could pay for twenty test tubes for a non-animal research project to replace animal experiments. Test tubes don’t feel pain, after all.
£30 could pay for a presentation about replacement research for a scientific conference. Scientists frequently communicate the latest ideas in non-animal replacement research to each other at conferences and meetings, passing on the good news about the effective work you have helped to fund.
£100 could pay for a multi-well three-dimensional cell culture kit to create a human cell culture model to replace dogs, cats, rabbits and mice in medical research such as heart disease, cancer, liver disease and diabetes.
£300 could purchase human breast cell lines for breast cancer research. Dr Hadwen Trust-funded researchers have developed a human cell culture model of breast cancer to replace experiments on mice.
£1,000 is needed for myelin proteins, essential components for test tube research into multiple sclerosis that could replace experiments on genetically modified mice.