Our Gift Aid Lite scheme offers far more than just a Gift Aid claiming service. As payment habits become increasingly cashless, it's vital that our churches recognise this and embrace the opportunities afforded by giving digitally.
Our Guide to donating and fundraising digitally in your church covers topics such as:
- Direct debits
- Donate Now buttons on your website
- Contactless and Chip and PIN donations
- Fundraising via social media and shopping
- Contactless and Chip and Pin payments
Support and training
We also share information and promote peer support via our social media pages on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as a Facebook group focusing on Giving, Fundraising and Finance.
We're also involved in the diocese's wider Digital Support Group on Facebook.
Members of the Gift Aid Lite scheme can access lots of training resources to help them receive donations and raise funds. These are both written guides as well as video tutorials which can be accessed on our Gift Aid Lite YouTube channel.
Online donations links
- easyfundraising portal
- Getting started with easyfundraising
- Setting up a new easyfundraising account
- Making a donation with easyfundraising
- My Giving Online and My Fund Accounting Online
- Donations from online shopping with easyfundraising (video)
- Donations from online searches with easysearch
- Data Developments
- Template reconciliation spreadsheet
National resources
- Parish Resources
- Parish Resources on Twitter
- Parish Buying
- Parish Buying on Facebook
- Parish Buying on Twitter
- Nation Giving Team videos on Vimeo
- Church of England - encouraging generosity
Gift Aid Lite User Guides
- GAL0 - List of guides
- GAL1 - How to log in and log out
- GAL2 - Creating and updating your User Profile
- GAL3 - Donor record guide
- GAL4 - Creating a backup file & exporting donors and donations
- GAL5 - Choosing and Adding Purposes
- GAL6 - Quick Add donor and gift
- GAL7 - Creating a GASDS donor record
- GAL8 - Entering one off, regular and anonymous GASDS donations
- GAL9 - Aggregate donations
- GAL10 - Reconciling a summary of your Gift Aid claim before submitting your authorisation form
- GAL11 - Quarterly claims previously submitted summary report
- GAL12 - Entering one off, regular and anonymous Gift Aid donations
- GAL13 - Creating a QR code for your Church
- GAL14 - Creating and managing regular donations
- GAL15 - Managing your envelope donors and their numbers
- GAL16 - Setting up your SmartFilters
- GAL17 - Importing donations directly from an electronic bank statement
- GAL18 - Importing donations from a spreadsheet
- GAL19 - Creating and printing thank you letters
- GAL20 - Creating a Gift Aid donor record
- GAL21 - Changing ending a Gift Aid declaration
- GAL22 - Changing a donor's address
- GAL23 - Using and promoting the 'Payter' Contactless giving device
- GAL24 - Enabling Contactless donations to be claimed via Gift Aid using the 'Payter' device
- GAL25 - Dealing with regular users of one-off Gift Aid envelopes
- GAL26 - Setting up a new easyfundraising account
- GAL27 - How to make an online donation via a Church’s easyfundraising account