If you are someone who has experienced pregnancy loss, you'll know how hard it can be to get people to talk about miscarriage. So you can probably imagine that it’s hard for The Miscarriage Association to attract grants and donations for our services. This is why we are asking you to make a donation and help us to continue to provide our services to others who lose a baby in pregnancy.

The Miscarriage Association needs to raise a minimum of £200,000 per year just to maintain services at their current levels. Your support can make a real difference to our ability to provide a quality service.

Take a look at the figures and see what your money can do:

 

£5 pays for sending out a pack of 5 information leaflets on miscarriage facts and feelings

£17 pays for helpline support and a leaflet pack for one person

£20 means we can send leaflet packs to four people

£36 will staff our helpline for an hour (responding to 2 to 4 requests for help)

£50 pays for one hour’s outreach costs, telling 10 nurses, midwives or doctors about The M.A.

£100 will enable us to train a new support volunteer

£250 pays for a training session for GPs or hospital doctors

£500 means we can send leaflet packs to 100 people

£1,000 will cover the cost of researching, writing and producing a new information leaflet

 

you can make a donation by:

• making a donation over the phone by credit card
• becoming a Friend Of The MA with a regular donation by Banker's Order (see below)
• sending a cheque
  

...and then increase it at no cost to you through Gift Aid

Under new tax rules announced in the Budget, anyone who is a UK taxpayer can increase the value of each pound s/he donates to charity by 28 pence, at no extra cost to him/herself. Higher-rate taxpayers can claim further tax relief in their self-assessment tax return. Even more important, membership subscriptions will be treated as donations. This news can make a major difference to our income. We will then be able to claim the tax on your membership subscription when you next pay and on any donation/s you make now or in the future. Do remember that this applies only to UK tax-payers. If you don't pay tax, but your partner does, it will help us a great deal if any donation - and the Gift Aid form - are in his/her name.

Please click here to print out the Gift Aid form

becoming a Friend Of The Miscarriage Association

Becoming a Friend Of The MA with an annual or monthly donation directly from your bank account to the MA's can help build up crucial funds for the Association. If you're a UK tax payer and have signed a Gift Aid declaration, this will increase your gift even more - for example Gift Aiding £5 per month increases the annual donation to The Miscarriage Association from £60 to £76.80.

If you'd like to support the MA in this way, please contact the Head Office.

join the Payroll Giving Scheme

Payroll Giving offers the opportunity to make a regular donation to charity from your salary, as long as your employer is signed up to the scheme. Whatever amount you choose is deducted by your employer before tax, so you pay tax only on the rest of your salary. This means that if you pay 22% tax and pledge £10 per month, this will actually only cost you £7.80. Some employers also add a percentage to their employees' donation. This summer the Government is launching a campaign to encourage more employers to sign up for payroll giving and they're backing it by adding 10% to donation made. Please contact Ruth at Head Office for more information.

mark a special day

Whether you want to celebrate the birth of a much-wanted baby or to remember the brief life of a baby whom you've lost, please consider making a donation to The Miscarriage Association in their honour. You might want to set up a donations page to encourage family and friends to join you. You can use the same facility for seeking donations on any other occasion too.

perhaps you’d consider The M.A. in your will, as Barbara did?

but don't forget other ways you can raise money...