J.B. Were's Corporate Support Report of 2022 outlines the role of Corporate Social Responsibility and the value to business. In essence, there is a role for business in supporting employees to support the community in parallel with direct business investment in the community. By paying our admin fee, or a portion of it, (currently 10%) you are ensuring the maximum donation goes directly to employees chosen charity. If you can manage it, donation matching has also been reported to directly increase donor participation.

Payroll giving is a process, whereby employees may choose to donate to a chosen charity which is automatically deducted from their pay. The benefit to them is that the donation tax credit is applied immediately as a deduction from PAYE, meaning no need to hold receipts or make claims and the 33% tax credit comes back to them instantly (a $10 donation only costs them $6.70).

Payroll giving is the most tax effective way to donate to charities, however there are currently many barriers (mainly compliance and administrative) for employers to offer this for their employees. Donorbees removes all administrative barriers, with little to no impact on payroll teams and provides an opportunity for employees to create a giving habit.

Providing your payroll system has a payroll-giving feature (see the list below for those we are certain are compliant), then all that is needed is for Donorbees to be loaded into your payroll system as the Charity employees can donate to. Employees can then set up regular or one-off payments to Donorbees and start building up their giving wallet. Your payroll team send us a single payment being the total of all donations made by donors, along with a detailed report to help us reconcile and distribute to donors giving wallets. When they are ready, they log in and distribute donations to charities of their choice.

Just give us a buzz. We will connect with your payroll provider if needed to enable your payroll-giving functionality and help you with your employee communications to get this going. We will also talk to you about how you can really supercharge your support.