Everything you need to know about Gift Aid; a government scheme that allows UK charities to retrieve the basic rate tax people pay in the UK as taxpayers.
It all began in 1912 when Charles Rothschild, who pioneered the whole concept of nature reserves in this country, set up the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves - which evolved into today's Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts - the parent organisation of our 47 Wildlife Trusts.