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Small Charitable Donations Act 2012

32.Subsection (2) of section 4 determines that the small donations received by each of the connected charities or CASCs are essentially pooled. The specified amount of £5,000 is divided by the number of connected charities or CASCs that make a claim under the scheme in respect of small donations received in the tax year. So if the connected charities or CASCs decide that only one of them is to make a claim, that one is entitled to make a claim in respect of up to £5,000 of small donations received by any of the connected charities or CASCs. The one charity or CASC that makes a claim does not need to have received £5,000 of small donations in its own right, the small donations have been pooled. It follows that if two connected charities decide to make a claim under the scheme in the same tax year, the specified amount of £5,000 is divided into two, and each of the charities is entitled to make a claim in respect of up to £2,500 small donations, again from the pool of small donations received by connected charities.

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