my fat wife decided to go for a wee swim, for a good cause.

[Jamie M]

Rover, all the very best to Hannah and all the team. Respect!

Donation made.

[Daniël Bos]

Well, nearly ready, been packing and sorting all our kit for the support boat.

Got a handheld GPS for tracking measuring and navigating (but mainly for the love of gadgetry...

Got a bag of food to last a week (me and my brother could eat a fair bit..)

Got a barrel of dry clothes for swimmer and rowers.

Got looooaaaads of other stuff

but most importantly.......

 

 

 

Got Viking helmet-hats for me and my brother:thumbup:

 

Attached is a pic from earlier from the press fotoshoot thingie, apologies for the quality (or lack thereof...)

I'll try and keep this updated as the day goes by tomorrow, we're off at 8.

[Daniël Bos]

can i have a name address please to send moneys onto i will either send a cheque as i recieve it or my from my bankcard sorry for the mither

 

PM sortified

[Daniël Bos]

Going well

[mendiplogs]

Going well

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HI ROVER nice one there mate keep going mate jon

[predator]

just even more confused now i just went to donate the £70 as promised but it totaled out at £86 odd so had to reduce the donation as i had,nt the funds for that amount in the bank whats that all about me having to pay tax on a donation ??????

[Daniël Bos]

just even more confused now i just went to donate the £70 as promised but it totaled out at £86 odd so had to reduce the donation as i had,nt the funds for that amount in the bank whats that all about me having to pay tax on a donation ??????

 

Hmm,

 

If you're a uk tax payer, your donation is eligible for "gift aid". Which is where the charity receives a little more money.

The government pays the charity the money they'd have received in tax when you earned it. Wether or not you actually paid income tax over the exact money you donated isn't relevant.

 

Is the only explanation I can think of?

 

Great effort Predator

[Justme]

Wether or not you actually paid income tax over the exact money you donated isn't relevant.

 

 

Actually it is important.

 

The person making the gift aid claim must have paid tax = to or larger than all his gift aid contributions in the same tax year as the gifts.

 

To make a gift aid claim & not have paid that tax is tax fraud.

[Daniël Bos]

Actually it is important.

 

The person making the gift aid claim must have paid tax = to or larger than all his gift aid contributions in the same tax year as the gifts.

 

To make a gift aid claim & not have paid that tax is tax fraud.

 

True, I was referring to the fact that even though he'd "earned" this money (presumably) without paying tax, as long as he's a uk tax payer he's eligible for gift aid.

(As it seems unlikely that he'd have claimed gift aid to a total of his tax bill if he doesn't know what gift aids is or how it works?)

[Hodge]

Here is a write up in my local paper about it.