Case Studies

Home Retail Group

Home Retail Group (Argos and Homebase) were the first retail company to receive the Gold Payroll Giving Quality Mark for having more than 10% of staff giving to charity through Payroll Giving.

They have been awarded the Gold Mark every year following their first success in 2005. Home Retail Group’s Payroll Giving Scheme last year raised over £42,000, with around 6,000 colleagues giving to charity this way. Home Retail Group shows their ongoing support of the scheme by paying all admin costs.

“We are delighted by the ongoing success of our Payroll Giving Scheme; this could not have happened without the committed work of Hands On Helping. They have helped us maintain staff participation by visiting all of our stores and distribution centres nationwide every year. Hands On Helping’s visits are conducted in a professional, yet friendly manner, which is not invasive and is very understanding of our busy workplaces. I would recommend them to any company wishing to engage it’s employees in Payroll Giving.”

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Capita

Capita already had a Payroll Giving Scheme when we started working with them 3 years ago, although less than 300 people had joined the scheme. We started promotions into all of their sites, including some high security ones, which needed special planning and co-ordination.

As Capita is the UK’s leading outsourcing company, there are several higher rate taxpayers, many of whom have been very thankful when we have drawn their attention to the fact that Payroll Giving is the only way in which they can give to charity and receive the full tax benefit- meaning their donation costs them 40-50% less!

Juliet Feeny, Corporate Responsibility Manager:

“As a company who are ever expanding, our Payroll Giving scheme has played a key part in supporting the charitable efforts of our employees. Hands On Helping have demonstrated great flexibility in visiting our many diverse sites to promote the scheme.”

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Marshalls Plc

Marshalls plc is the UK’s no.1 hard landscape transformation company and is the UK’s market leader in paving, decorative products for gardens, driveways and commercial hard landscaping. The Marshalls Group has over 2,700 employees operating at manufacturing sites, quarries, service centres and offices throughout the UK.

They have always been a forward looking company and in 1994 they introduced a Payroll Giving Scheme, which is administered by The Charities Trust, as a way for staff to support their favourite charity. The scheme really took off in 1995 when Marshalls engaged the services of Hands On Helping, a fundraising organization that promotes payroll giving in the work place.

Marshalls’ staff have now raised over £200,000 for charity since the scheme started.

Neil Davidson, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager said:

“We are delighted with the way our scheme has grown over the past ten years, last year we received the Gold Payroll Giving Quality Mark, the highest accolade a company can obtain for having over 10% of its work force participating in the scheme, we would recommend the scheme to other companies as it is very easy to administer and promote.”

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T-Mobile UK

In 2006 T-Mobile UK launched a new community investment programme with input from employees on how they wanted to support causes that are important to them.

As a result, the T-Mobile ‘Give a little…change a lot’ scheme continues to include Give As You Earn (GAYE) as one option for employees. It’s an easy way for staff to donate to charities directly from their pay each month.

Allison Murray, Corporate Responsibility Manager T-Mobile UK said:

“Since 2000 we’ve worked with Hands On, who have actively promoted Give as You Earn to our employees across the UK. We are very pleased with the way our scheme has grown over the years. They have been very effective in engaging our staff in payroll giving and made the scheme easy for us to implement and run.”

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Morrisons Plc

Sarah Grant, Remuneration and Benefits Manager

“Morrisons Plc is very happy to support the Payroll Giving Scheme; it enables our employees to support their favourite charity, and raises over £200,000 a year for many different charities large and small”

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Debenhams Plc

Nikki Zamblera, HR Director

"Debenhams have been working with Hands On Helping since 1999; supporting the Give As You Earn Scheme. We now have around 6% of Debenhams employees donating a total of over £96,000 each year to charities of their choice. We are happy to support this worthwhile ‘easy to administer’ scheme."

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