Easy ways to make your donation today
> Donate online
Make a secure donation (or set up regularly monthly giving) and we can reclaim the tax. The online donation facility is provided by "Justgiving" and therefore when you click "donate online" you will be taken to their secure server and asked to fill in a brief form to enable the tax reclaim.
> Make a one-off donation by cheque
To make the most of your gift and enable us to boost your gift with the Gift Aid scheme, please click here and fill the online form and send it with your cheque to Medair UK.
> Standing Order to facilitate your gift
Regular gifts are vital to Medair and those we serve. They allow us to plan ahead, even when working in fast-moving emergency situations.
Standing Orders are also one of the most efficient ways to support Medair. To set up a regular Standing Order, please download, complete and return this form. Thank you!
Help Medair to increase your gift
> Gift Aid
Gift Aid is a straightforward, but valuable way of increasing the value of your gift(s) to Medair at no cost to you. If you are a UK tax-payer, the Gift Aid scheme allows Medair UK to reclaim 25p for every £1 you give. To add Gift Aid to your donation(s), please complete the online form or download, complete and return this PDF form. Thank you!
In addition, if you are a higher rate taxpayer, you can personally reclaim the difference between basic rate and the higher rate of income tax paid on the value of your donation.
> Legacies
Gifts to charity in a Will are exempt from Inheritance Tax. So leaving some or all of your assets or perhaps a spe-cific financial gift funded from the sale of your home to Medair on your death is particularly tax efficient.
> On receiving a legacy
Should you be in the position of receiving a legacy or inheritance where the deceased left a Will, but perhaps did not make any gifts to charity, it is possible to legally ‘redirect’ part or all of the bequests after death using an Instrument of Variation (IOV).
For example, if the deceased left a gift to their son, this would normally be subject to Inheritance Tax. But if the son decides that he wants to give some or all of his inheritance to charity, he can enter into an IOV jointly with any other beneficiaries affected by the change. This has the effect of treating the Will as if the gift to charity had been made by the deceased themselves and this gift now becomes Inheritance Tax exempt.
