Giving

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• Gift Aid
  Many people at St Giles give money to the church under the Gift Aid Scheme - this enables the chruch to claim 28p from the Inland Revenue for every £1 donated to the church. This can be done if the donor has completed a Gift Aid Declaration saying that he/she wishes the church to claim the money from the Government and that he/she has paid more tax than that being reclaimed. It does not commit the donor to regular giving to the church and can be claimed on one-off payments. If you would like to give money to St Giles under this Scheme, please contact the Gift Aid Recorder at the Church. NB All donations are treated in the strictest confidence.
  
  At St Giles, Gift Aid envelopes are available at the back of the church, or you can print out the Gift Aid form here (pdf 68k).
  
  
• Legacies
  The most significant factor that has ensured that St Giles has survived as a parish church, when many of its neighbours, like the now largely forgotten St John's Charlotte Street, St John's Drury Lane, Christ Church Woburn Place have disappeared, is the generosity of our predecessors here.
  
  Current members of St Giles' congregations are generous in contributing from their incomes towards the expenses of running the church, making use of the Gift Aid Scheme which enables the PCC to reclaim from the Inland Revenue the income tax paid on the money given. We would like to encourage people who contribute to St Giles in their lifetime, or who feel that St Giles has been important for them in some way, to consider, when making, or revising their wills, the possibility of making a bequest to St Giles', of for example, perhaps a similar proportion of their residuary estate as they contributed to the collection from their income during their lifetime.
  
  It is certainly in the interest of our heirs to make a will, for so often there are disputes in families when someone dies without having made a will. It may even be in the interest of one's heirs to make a bequest to a charity (of which, of course the PCC is one) for the amount given in bequests to charities is subtracted from the total value of an estate, thus reducing the Capital Transfer Tax liability.