Hello, I hope some of you bright sparks out there can help me. We are a tiny charity, in terms of staff numbers, and have recently moved into the world of RE. As i know most about databases it is me that is setting up things and teaching the rest of the staff (poor souls). I am getting my head around...

Afternoon all, we're looking into ways to record Gift Aid and Matched Funding contributions against eligable gifts on The Raiser's Edge. The Gift Aid side of the process is fine but we're currently trying to decide how/ if we can record matched funding. does anyone out there currently record...

Blackbaud Netcommunity version 6.15 has just gone into a controlled release phase and is almost ready to hit the streets. This is a major step on for us at Blackbaud as it is the first version that is running on our new Infinity platform . I thought today I'd share a couple of the cool (or in some...

Hi Is anyone using PE and PEO so donors can sign up to Gift Aid online? Would really like to hear how this works. Many thanks

At the Blackbaud Relationship Management conference I discussed Challenge Event Fundraising and the best ways to get the most out of these events. I'd like to share some of the findings but first some background. The average UK gift is around £10 (Source CAF) with the average Challenge Event gifts...

For Gift Aid to be claimed the donation must come from an Individual, there is no way claim gift aid from a company donation.

Does anyone have any experience of the best way to record a donation and the gift aid declaration from an LLP (partnership) on Raiser's Edge so that it will be picked up by the gift aid report, but will also be recorded as a donation from an organisation. Thanks.

I spoke to Blackbaud about this a little while ago and they are advising people to set up a record for HMRC and put the 'gift' on that record which will at least allow your gift reporting to come at the right amount. As the TR has nothing to do with the donor they advised against putting it on...

I was wondering if there is anybody out there who uses the European version of RE7 (which is in reality the UK version) and what problems you have using or trying to avoid using the UK functionality. The following come to mind: Gift Aid Sort codes that are validated to 6 digits in length (even if the...

We've only just gone live with RE, and does anyone know if it is possible to run a Gift Aid claim report, but without actually running the claim. I'm looking to calcuate the amount of backdated Gift Aid we should be entitled to and want to report to finance the total figure, but I don't yet...