Payroll giving still proves best

We were very surprised to read this recent article in Third Sector stating donations through the Give As You Earn scheme are on the rise.

Unfortunately, at Compton Hospice, we have found the opposite to be true.

Payroll giving is one of the easiest and most flexible ways of giving a regular donation and it is totally tax-free.

Anyone can give if their pay is taxed through PAYE and their employer offers a payroll giving scheme.

All donations are taken from gross wages (i.e. before income tax) – which means donations are worth 28% more than its cost to the employee.

Midnight Halloween walkers set for fundraising treat

 
Supporters of Compton Hospice are hoping to provide a fundraising treat for the charity with the hospice’s first midnight walk, during the darkest hours of Halloween.

Lady walkers are set to take over the ghostly night time streets following a nine-mile course along roads around the hospice during the bewitching hour between Saturday October 30 and Halloween on Sunday October 31. Member of the hospice's fundraising team are pictured getting into the spirit of the walk.

Groups of walkers hope to banish the ghoulish spirits from the city centre for the women only evening by dressing in distinctive Halloween fancy dress.

The fun trek will raise funds for the hospice’s £1m Raise the Roof appeal, to redevelop patient facilities at the Compton Road West site.

Rusty bangers turned to cash for Compton Hospice

Supporters of Wolverhampton’s Compton Hospice can turn their rusty old bangers in to cash for the charity as part of a car scrappage scheme.

The hospice has joined a national car recycling scheme, at giveacar.co.uk, which turns clapped out motors into donations for the charity.

Under the scheme supporters donate their old car to the hospice, regardless of whether it is roadworthy, just like donating clothes to a Compton Hospice charity shop.

The car is either sold at auction for salvage or scrapped at an authorised car recycling facility with 80 per cent of the money going to Compton Hospice, the remainder is kept by giveacar.co.uk to cover their costs, up to a maximum of £50.

The car is collected by pick-up truck and disposed of an environmentally responsible manner.

Sue Chance, head of fundraising at Compton Hospice, said: “This is literally getting gold out scrap to help the hospice.

“It’s crushingly easy and provides another way for people to help Compton Hospice while taking an unwanted and often worthless car off their hands and disposing of it without damaging the environment,” she said.

For details go to giveacar.co.uk

Motor dealership staff get in to gear for 10-mile car pull

Staff at a car dealership are revving up for their greatest ever motoring challenge by pulling a car for 10 miles across the Black Country, to raise money for Wolverhampton’s Compton Hospice.

A team of 20 staff from Brindley Honda in West Bromwich are getting in to gear to put their feet to the floor pulling the Honda Jazz car along a route which will see them cross the region on Saturday September 11.

Taking it in turns a team of six are set the tow the near one ton car from Tipton to Compton Hospice in support of the charity’s raise the roof appeal, to redevelop patient facilities at the hospice.

The dealership staff will be accompanied by a team of supporters collecting donations along the route, which will include a stop at Wolverhampton’s Queen Square in the afternoon.