how to support us
Support us through the gift of your money, time or skills
Buy tickets to our events and come have fun with other St Joseph’s parents - and bring your family and good friends along. Tickets to events are a large source of our income and help pay back for the time and effort that our parents voluntarily - and free of charge - spend to organise them. If you cannot attend the event, please consider buying a ticket as a form of gratitude for our parent volunteers if you can afford it.
Get involved in organising and running school fundraising events. We are always in need of more volunteers to help plan, set up, and run our events - which make up the vast majority of our fundraising effort.
Register for Gift Aid
Complete our electronic Gift Aid Declaration if you are a UK taxpayer and would like to authorise the SJSA to claim Gift Aid on your eligible donations. Your donations will be boosted by 25p for every eligible £1 you donate whether that is a one-off or recurring donation; or an eligible purchase at an event.
Donate through your employer:
If your employer has a payroll giving scheme you can donate to SJSA tax free - your donation will come off your salary before 20% / 40% tax is deducted so this is highly efficient. If your employer has a matched donation scheme - even better - donate to us by whatever means they permit and provide evidence to your employer so they can match your donation often up to 100%. If you are unable to find our charity through your employer’s scheme, reach out to us at admin@sjsa.family so we can arrange to register our bank details with the scheme operator to accept electronic payments (some schemes may reach out to us directly).
Set up a one-off or recurring donation:
If you have a PayPal account you can make a one-off donation to us using PayPal Giving (no fees for us). If you do not have a PayPal account you can make a one-off or recurring donation using regular PayPal (has fees) and elect Gift Aid in the process. Easily set up a direct debit for £5 / £10 / £20 / £50 / £75 a month via our direct debit provider GoCardless - cancel anytime through your online bank.
Set up a standing order or make a one-off donation using your online banking website or app. Our bank details are as follows (we have finally managed to get Barclays to update our charity name):
Bank: Barclays
Account Name: St Josephs School Association SJSA
Sort Code: 20-69-15
Account Number: 93668363
Donate passively
Give at checkout with Paypal:
1. Set SJSA as your favourite charity on PayPal by clicking on the heart icon. Click this link and search for ’SJSA’. Then click and go to the charity profile and click the heart icon.
2. Choose to donate £1 at checkout whenever you make a purchase.
Selling on eBay? You can donate a portion of your income to charity! Next time select
‘SJSA’ in the charity drop-down menu - we are on the list.
Avid online shopper? easyfundraising will donate a percentage of your bill with major retailers such as Argos, John Lewis, Boots, Tesco and many others to a charity of your choice (we are on the list, too) at no cost to you. Note that you will need to install a simple plug-in that will generate a link to access the retailer’s website from and shop through the retailer website, not the retailer’s app.
Organise your own fundraising event:
such as a charity walk/run/bike ride to fundraise for St. Joseph’s and ask your colleagues/friends to sponsor you through an online platform. We can create dedicated payment links for your event using Paypal or GoCardless that go straight to our bank account.
