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We were pleased to attend the opening of the YorKaos event at Sparks in York. The Kids’ art exhibition started in style with a grand opening, ribbon cutting, streamers, speeches and guest artist Lincoln Lightfoot.
There’s no charge to visit. Anyone can come along to view the work of hundreds of local artists aged 5 to 11, take part in the community portrait “Of time and place (2025)” and of course try the great food from the small local businesses at SPARK.
The exhibition runs till Saturday, 22nd February, 2025 and you can view the daily timetable by clicking on this link
Here are some photos from the first day:
Elmet Lions are pleased to have supported this event organised by Ada, Seth, HS and Mabel
We love seeing where the money goes when we donate back into the community. We went to see a display at Sherburn Community Gymnastics Club this afternoon….by invitation. Elmet Lions donated money to buy jackets for the Gymnastics when they are competing in Disneyland Paris next year. They were amazing ! Good luck xx
We are delighted to announce that we have 2 new members. Welcome Carole Long and Peter Olakunle Adeeko you join a well established team of volunteers who love raising money for the local community. Carole and Peter were sponsored by Lion Anne Snowdon and Vice President John Brettell.
Elmet Lions love working with local companies to help other organisations. Kingspan have insulated the shed that we donated to Milford Hedgehogs . Thus fattenupper shed will be known as the Happy Hedgehog Haven, a hut where the Hedgehogs go before being released back into the wild.
If you are a registered charity and you fundraise online you’ve probably registered with HMRC to receive GiftAid (GA), worth an additional 25% of a donation made by a UK individual who is a taxpayer.
You may well choose to have your online donations managed by an organisation such as JustGiving who claim the GA on your behalf from HMRC. There is a cost involved ( a monthly fee and net GA of 20% instead of 25%).
Where you receive online donations via contactless card readers you often don’t receive donors’ details necessary for a GA claim.. Similarly where you operate bucket collections at an event or have collection cans located for example in a pub, you miss out on GiftAid.
You do however have the opportunity to make a claim direct to HMRC. You can read how to do this at https://www.gov.uk/claim-gift-aid-online
Where individual donations are £30 or less there is a special scheme called Gift Aid small donations scheme (GASDS) for such claims.
Organisations which are not registered charities can still claim GiftAid. You would need to register your organisation with HMRC and provide information which established your credentials with them. Here’s a link which provides information on that aspect of GiftAid. – https://www.gov.uk/claim-gift-aid/small-donations-scheme
I trust this information will prove useful to registered and unregistered charities.
Apparently every year more than £500 million goes unclaimed, according to the Charity Finance Group.
Elmet Lions Club President Maggie Hartley was delighted to be asked to go and talk to the young people at the STAR Mat student conference, I was there to raise awareness of Elmet Lions and launch the Young Leaders in Service Award – helping to raise aspirations and encourage volunteering.
