Haygarth Wins Award for its Charity Giving

For the first time Haygarth has won the National Payroll Giving Award for the best SME campaign. A government award designed to showcase the best examples of UK employers commitment to Payroll Giving, last year over £100million was donated to charities through Payroll Giving. This award is on top of the Gold Payroll Giving Quality Mark that Haygarth has been awarded for the last three years. Over 40% of Haygarth employees make regular donations to their favourite charities directly from their pay via a Workplace Giving scheme and the company has one of the highest participation rates of all UK organisations. This is a remarkable achievement as the Government’s bench mark for excellence is currently set much lower at a participation rate of 10%.

Haygarth has been part of a Workplace Giving scheme for the past eight years and since 2003 has raised nearly £24,000 which has benefitted over 49 charities.

Sophie Daranyi, CEO, Haygarth, comments: ‘It is really great to have received this recognition for everyone at Haygarth who has supported the Give As You Earn scheme. Whilst this is only a very small part of what we do to raise funds for charity, it is important to us that the G.A.Y.E (Give as You Earn) scheme works well and is always available to anyone who would like to support a charity through their pay.’ Haygarth recognises that making it easy for employees to give to their chosen cause is key to a successful scheme. All Workplace Giving donations are taken from the employee’s gross pay and are all therefore tax efficient. It is also the only way for a higher rate tax payer to automatically give an extra 40% to their chosen charity.