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Giving

The Government has a long term commitment to foster a culture of planned regular and tax effective giving.

Through the strategy A Generous Society and working in partnership with HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs - the Office of the Third Sector supports a series of programmes to drive up levels of giving including through:

• Work with the charitable sector to promote tax effective giving, ensuring that organisations are able to benefit from the reliefs available
• Work with young people to instil a culure of giving from an early age
• Work to develop the evidence base

The original A Generous Society strategy is available here:

• A Generous Society [PDF 828KB, 28 pages]

Further details on the Office of the Third Sector’s charitable giving programmes can be found in these sections:

Promoting tax effective giving

• Promoting Gift Aid
  Gift Aid offers a simple way to increase the value of a gift of money to a UK charity or Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC)
• The tax effective giving programme
  Supporting charities to take advantage of tax reliefs to maximise their income

Promoting giving in schools

• Giving Nation Challenge
  An initiative developing curriculum materials on charitable giving for secondary school citizenship classes. 
• Go-Givers
  A programme to develop and promote curriculum materials promoting ideas of empathy and charity among primary school children. 

Building the evidence

• Centre of Charitable Giving and Philanthropy
  A centre established to support high quality research on charitable giving and philanthropy