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HOW YOU CAN HELP
Please give as generously as you can ...as soon as you can. We have worked out that if we had 200 standing orders of £5 per month we could continue running the trust and then any money made over and above that would be used for projects. To donate online please click on the buttons below for either Credit/Debit Card or Direct Debit:
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If you would like to set up a standing order by e-mail, please contact Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust for a form.
Alternatively if you would prefer to make a single donation by regular mail please click here for a printable **PDF file form.
We are desperately in need of pony and cob sized bridles, head collars and 4" and 4.5" bits, so if you could send us any of these it would make such a difference.
If you are located north of London in Essex or Herts, and you have some items to donate, please drop them off at the following address:
Forest Saddlery Ltd.
21c The Potteries
Woodgreen Road
Waltham Abbey
Essex
EN9 3SA
01992 767767
Forest Saddlery Ltd
All administrative work for The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust is carried out by volunteers so overheads are kept to a minimum. With your help we really can improve the lives of these animals and their owners.
Did you know……….?
How Gift Aid works
If you pay UK tax on your income or gains (e.g. through PAYE, by Self Assessment (SA) or at source on your bank/building society interest) and then make a Gift Aid donation, UK charities can claim back basic rate tax relating to that donation directly from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
As a result any gift you make, as a Gift Aid donation, is worth more to the charity than the amount you actually pay
Example
Leaving gifts to charity in your will
If you leave a gift to a UK charity in your will the value of the gift will be deducted from the value of your estate before inheritance tax is worked out.
Gifts made to a UK charity in the seven years prior to your death are also covered by the same exemption from inheritance tax.
If your estate is liable to inheritance tax this will reduce the overall amount of tax due from your estate.
If your business (sole trader, partnership or company) makes a gift to a UK charity of plant, machinery or equipment, used in the course of your normal trading activities, you can treat their disposal as being at nil value (rather than market value) in your capital allowances computation. As a result, your business will get full capital allowances in respect of the gifted equipment - equal to its cost.
If you're a business (sole trader, partnership or company) and you make a gift to a UK charity of goods, manufactured or sold as part of your normal trading activities, you can claim the cost of those goods in the business accounts. Nothing is included as a trading receipt so you will get full relief for the cost of those goods against your taxable profit.
You can treat the secondment of employees to a UK charity as a legitimate business expense. If your business continues to pay that person you can deduct the cost (wages and expenses) of employing them as if they continued to work for you.
The donation of goods by a business to a UK charity for sale, export or hire is a zero rated supply for VAT purposes.
Please help to support 'Calum's Road in the Gambia'. For full details please visit our Calum's Road page HERE.
By sponsoring one of our horses or donkeys for one year, you will be helping towards the running costs of our charity, and the care of a specific animal.
The sponsorship fee is £20 per year and you will receive a Sponsor Certificate, details of the horse or donkey you decide to sponsor, together with a newsletter of the animals progress and an updated picture three times a year
You may sponsor a horse or donkey either online or via post. Gift sponsorships are also available. For more information, please visit the 'Sponsor' link on the left hand menu bar.
Buy a Donkey for a Needy Family
** PROJECT TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED **
For only £75 you could make a very real difference to the life of a poor family, that is the cost of purchasing/rehabilitating a donkey, training his owner and providing him with the basic harness for their life together.
If you felt very generous, you could also supply a specially designed cart for £160 or a plough for £150.
You can buy a donkey for a needy family either online or via post. For more information, please visit the 'Buy a Donkey for a Needy Family' link on the left hand menu bar.
What Your Donation Will Buy (Wish List)
Your donation, no matter how small or large, can help to buy the following:
| £1 | Lengths of rope for making rope bridles. |
| £2 | A bucket. |
| £5 | A dose of wormer or a bag of food for a horse or donkey |
| £7 | A bit to bring much relief for a suffering animal |
| £10 | A swingle tree for a cart, which will help to reduce the dreadful harness wounds that we see |
| £16 | One cart load of hay for the centre. |
| £25 | Mosquito netting for a stable. We encourage people to build stables for shelter from the heat and flies. If the owners are caring enough to build their own stable, we undertake to pay for the fly screening for it. Before any of our animals go out on loan, the owner must undertake to provide adequate shelter. |
| £60 | Printing costs for educational posters or leaflets |
| £75 | A donkey for a needy family - We have a system whereby if we identify a needy family who would benefit from the use of a donkey, we can offer them the use of a donkey we have purchased or one which we have rehabilitated. They must agree to undertake a short training course in care and management, and are provided with a necessary harness. They must agree to care for it well and to allow us to make regular checks on it. If we should see or hear that the donkey is being abused, it will be immediately removed. |
| £100 | Wood for a turnout paddock. As timber is SO expensive we do not have sufficient turn out paddocks for the horses as there always seems to be something that the money needs to be spent on more urgently. |
| £160 | A new lightweight well balanced cart which was designed thanks to help from TAWS. This type of cart, which looks very similar to the one already used in The Gambia, makes life a great deal easier for the animals and increases productivity. |
| £400 | Would pay for the cost of a stable. We still need to build more isolation stables and 'girls quarters' as none of the horses or donkeys are castrated in The Gambia. We plan to build the 'girls quarters' on the land we have for the volunteers house. |
Gift Certificates for Family, Friends or Yourself!
Do you need to buy a gift for a friend or family member but cannot think what to get them? We can help you to find a really unique gift and help relieve poverty at the same time! We can provide you with a gift certificate for any of the following, or we can forward it directly to where it is required:
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If you would like a gift certificate, payment can be made by cheque or online. This fundraiser is open to Global participation. All cheques should be from banks in the United Kingdom, or overseas bank drafts should be in UK pounds only, cashable in a UK bank. Please send the donation to:
'Gift Certificate'
The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
Brewery Arms Cottage
Stane Street
Ockley
Surrey
RH5 5TH
Please make cheque/bank draft payable to "The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust" and include the name and postal details of the person you are making a donation on behalf of, your own name, and the event you are celebrating. If you are donating for a special event (birthday, anniversary etc.), please include details with the postal information.
All donations and gift certificate requests, for Christmas presents, should be received, at the GHDT office, by 15th November. Requests received after that date may not arrive in time for Christmas. Please allow ample postal time for all special event gift certificate requests.
If paying online please use the online donation buttons at the top of this page, and then email all the required postal information to Heather Armstrong.
If you have any questions please email Heather Armstrong or call 01306 627568.
Search the Web with EveryClick.com
Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust is now listed on everyclick.com, a search engine that gives 50% of its revenue to charity. Using everyclick.com as your search engine does not cost you or us any money, but every time you use it you raise money for the Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust. Please start raising money for us whenever you search the web. Just click on the logo to the right and you can then click on the links in the top right hand corner to either set it as your home page or add it to your favourites. Thanks! |
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The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust regrets that though we deeply appreciate the kind offers of voluntary assistance, it is not in a position to take on short term volunteers to work at our Centre in The Gambia, with the exception of our professional teams of vets etc. Our Centre is approximately eight hours away from the coast over very bad roads and it is a long and tiring journey for anyone coming for only two weeks. We do not, as yet, have the logistical resources in terms of transport, accommodation and insurance to be able to cope with non professional volunteers.
We would however welcome voluntary help in the UK with fundraising and administration.
GHDT, Brewery Arms Cottage, Stane Street,
Ockley, Surrey RH5 5TH
Email: Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
Carol singing
A lovely way to get into the holiday spirit and raise money for the GHDT at the same time.
Services
You could offer to do dog walking, baby-sitting, ironing, housework, house-sitting when people are on holiday, gardening, car washing, shopping and other errands.
Groom-a-Horse
Do you have a horse or donkey? Why not take them to a garden or school fete and charge a small amount, £1 for example, for people to groom it? It's a simple idea, but very popular with children and adults who may never have had the opportunity to groom a larger animal. It's a fun way to raise money for the GHDT!
Give a Little Friendship
Why not invite your friend for a get together, and ask them to donate to the GHDT rather than reciprocating. A special Friendship Voucher, that you can download and give to your friend, is available here:
**Friendship Voucher in PDF file format.
Recycling
Some local councils will pay you if you collect things for recycling. Phone your council to check, then organise regular collections from your workplace, school or neighbours. This is a great fundraiser and good for the environment too!
For more information on any of the above fundraising ideas, please contact Heather at the following address:
The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
Brewery Arms Cottage
Stane Street
Ockley
Surrey
RH5 5TH
Telephone: 01306 627568
E-mail: Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
Fundraise With 'eBay for Charity'
The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust is now fundraising with 'eBay for Charity'. eBay for Charity is an easy way to support the GHDT while doing what you do everyday on eBay. Buyers can shop, safe in the knowledge that their money will find its way to our charity. Meanwhile sellers can choose our charity, followed by the percentage of the sales price they wish to donate - and eBay for Charity do the rest.
Go on, have a go - and help make a difference with eBay for Charity by visiting our 'About My Charity' Page.
For an approximate value of your donation, in your own currency, please visit the currency conversion Website.
** PDF FORMS
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The single donation form and the Friendship Voucher are encoded in PDF format for your convenience. To view the file, you will need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, free of charge from Adobe's website, |
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