Guide to Giving - Original Post Nov 30th 2009

HMRC have released their latest "Guide to Giving" for businesses.

There's some good information in there, about the ways that you can work with charities and make it efficient. It also outlines the tax implications and rewards of various ways of giving.

It covers advice for businesses that want to:

give money to a charity
sponsor a charity
give shares or land to charity
give some trading stock or equipment to charity
loan employees to work for a charity
encourage employees to volunteer
for a charity
encourage our employees to donate
to charity
invest in improving the urban environment
invest in a disadvantaged community

It doesn't go into details about setting up charity of the year partnerships, or Cause Related Marketing, and t's a little England-centric, as these things tend to be.

I think it's a shame it doesn't give more detail about share-giving either- both for companies and individuals, but it's still a handy wee guide.

What's missing are details for Scottish Business in the Community, and Volunteer Scotland, so there's two handy links for you.