Payroll Giving enables employees to give to any UK charity straight from their gross salary (before tax is deducted), giving immediate tax relief on those donations. This means that £10 donated each month costs only £7.80 for employees paying standard rate tax (£6 for higher rate taxpayers) and will be worth as much as £20 to the charity (courtesy of the Government matching scheme for the first six months of your donations).

Any employee or pensioner paid under PAYE can donate by this method. Giving direct from your payroll is very simple. You can give as much as you like and donations are tax free.

Give As You Earn, the UK's largest and most successful payroll giving scheme, is administered by CAF (Charities Aid Foundation), itself a registered charity, for the use of all resident UK tax payers. www.cafonline.org

Until December 2006, the Payroll Giving Grants programme, a Home Office- funded initiative, will reward organisations with less that 500 employees that set up Payroll Giving with a grant of between £300 and £500. In addition the first £10 of each employee's monthly donations will be matched, pound-for-pound, for a period of six months. That's up to £60 extra per employee going to their chosen charity.