Gift Aid

So you know what your carry forward is from those previous tax years.

And that just allows you to take control of your position and to work out where you're meant to be, whether or not you're expecting a charge and whether or not you can use things like SIPs, you know, or gift aid to adjust things and navigate things like the 100k tax trap and the 200k tapering tax trap.

And just to stop the kind of the bill shock around a charge.

And also, you know, even if you've received your brown envelope, don't assume it's correct because lots of brown envelopes are incorrect.

And you can put up to £60,000 a year into your pension and may even have carryover.

Extra gift aid, extra pension relief.

Just checking, your pension...

Are you doing it through your employer rather than at source, rather than just doing it straight into a pension plan?

Where did you end up as a total for money raised for charity?

So with Gift Aid, it was just a tad over 100,000.

Amazing.

Absolutely amazing.

There's a donate button on the website and it's very easy just to donate a small or a large amount of money, whatever you care to give us.

We also have gift aid forms in the office so that we can claim back the gift aid, which I'm sure, as everybody knows, is 25% more from the government and really worth getting if you're a taxpayer.

So all systems go at Winton House then?

As ever.

Now what they're doing is they're giving you the option of getting a payback of your Zakat to a percentage, like 10, 15, 20%, so you can participate in its distribution.

It's not a kickback like Gift Aid.

I don't know how they regulate it practically, but in terms of the moral regulation, it's your ticking a box saying, I want to distribute this portion of my Zakat so you can feel like you're taking part in this state-based vision.

And so you can see how Zakat is then coordinating individuals with a state governance, which is encouraging them to accept a particular sort of scholarly authority in its management.

Tiny Lives is a charity that means a huge amount to our family because of that experience.

Last year I ran 100 kilometers for Tiny Lives, raising over 3,400, including Gift Aid.

This year I've decided to go, go considerably further and attempt 100 miles in a single day." Wow.

"I'll be starting around 2:00 AM." I think you're gonna need all day as well as [laughs] this, so yeah.