Matched funding and corporate donations
Numerous employers operate schemes that match or even exceed the charitable donations made by their employees – sometimes by as much as 2:1. This means you can greatly increase the value of your giving to QE with no additional cost to you. A list of such companies is given below. However, this list may not be fully comprehensive: if you are not sure, it is always worth asking your HR department whether your organisation operates a matched giving scheme, and, if so, how it works.
We also know that some parents own or run businesses that are able to offer corporate donations.
Tax-efficient giving
The Donor Debit scheme that most of our parents use to donate makes it easy to sign up for Gift Aid, which gives QE an additional 25p for every £1 you donate – with further income tax relief available from taxpayers on the higher (40%) or additional (45%) rates. There are several other schemes that enable UK taxpayers to maximise charitable donations while minimising their tax liabilities. These include giving stocks & shares, and legacies.
Our Development Office is always happy to discuss matched giving, corporate donations, or other tax-efficient forms of giving. Please get in touch.
A–Z list of companies known to operate matched giving schemes
(If you can add to, or update/correct, this list, please contact QE’s Development Office.)
3i Group plc
A
Accenture plc
American Express Company
Arla Foods
ARM Holdings plc
AstraZeneca plc
B
Bank of America Corporation
Bank of England
Bank of Scotland plc
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
Barclays plc
Boots UK Limited
Boston Consulting Group
BP plc
Bristol-Myers Squibb
British Gas
British Sky Broadcasting Group plc
British American Tobacco plc
C
Camelot Group plc
Cemex UK Ltd
Citigroup Inc.
D
De La Rue plc
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
Deutsche Bank AG
Deutsche Post
DHL
Diageo
E
Eli Lilly and Company
Ernst & Young
Experian plc
Exxon Mobil Corp.
F
Fidelity Investments LLC
FirstGroup plc
G
Gap, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline plc
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Google
H
Home Retail Group
HSBC Bank plc
HSBC Holdings plc
I
IBM
J
J P Morgan & Co
J Sainsbury plc
Johnson & Johnson
J P Morgan Chase Bank
K
Kellogg’s
Kingfisher plc
KPMG LLP
L
Legal & General Group plc
Littlewoods
Lloyds Bank plc
M
Marks and Spencer plc
Mars, Inc.
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.
Mercer, LLC
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
Microsoft Corporation
Mitsubishi Group
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Moody’s Corporation
Morgan Stanley
N
National Grid plc
National Westminster Bank
NCR Corporation
P
Pearson plc
Pfizer, Inc.
Philip Morris International, Inc.
Philips Phoenix Group
PPG Industries
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Proctor & Gamble Co
R
Reuters
Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc
Royal Dutch Shell plc
Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited
RSA Insurance Group plc
RWE npower plc
S
Santander Group
Santander UK plc
Schroders plc
Siemens Healthcare
Sun Life Financial, Inc.
T
Telefónica UK Limited (O2)
Tesco plc
Texaco
Thames Water Utilities Ltd
The Economist Group
The Linde Group
U
UBM plc
UBS AG
Unilever
United Utilities Group plc
V
Verizon Communications, Inc.
Vodafone
Y
Yorkshire Water Ltd