As well as making a donation online, we are happy to receive donations in a way that suits you best. Here you will find information about other popular ways of giving. We are always happy to speak to you about these and other ways to give.

Regular Donations
Making a small regular donation is a popular method. It is valuable to us, allowing us to make plans based on a steady, reliable income. We can accept regular donations on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis by Standing Order from donors with a suitable UK bank account.

You can download a Standing Order form that you can print and post to us. The form includes a Gift Aid declaration that makes your donations tax efficient. To download a form in Adobe PDF format, click the button on the right hand side.

Postal Donations
If you'd like to make a donation, but you prefer not to make an online payment by credit card, we would be delighted to receive a cheque. Simply make the cheque payable to 'The Karen Hilltribes Trust' and post it to us. You'll find our contact details on the Contact Us page. We can accept cheques in any currency (but if you pay in sterling, it saves us money).

We can also accept CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) vouchers by post.

If you want to write a cheque from a Thai bank account, please mail it out to the Thai Foundation for Karen hill tribes.

U.S. Tax-Deductable Gifts
If you live in the US, you can make your donation to the Karen Hilltribes Trust tax-deductable. This needs to be sent to the American Fund for Charities, who will process your donation and forward it to us. Due to the admin cost linked to this process, we ask that a minimum donation of $250 is made in this way.

Please note: if you donate online through our website, we cannot make it tax-deductable.
Please email us and we will send you the appropriate form to fill in.

For more information about the American Fund for Charities visit: http://www.chapel-york.com/

Gift Aid Explained
If you are a UK tax payer, the Inland Revenue will add 28p to every £1 you donate. This is extremely valuable to us because we can use it to cover our general running costs.

Under current UK legislation, there is no minimum amount you have to donate in order to qualify for the Gift Aid scheme. All you need to do is give us your consent.

If you are donating online, simply tick the Gift Aid scheme box.

If you are sending a cheque please accompany it with the following statement (signed and dated):

"I confirm that I would like the Karen Hilltribes Trust to treat my donation of £____ (amount) made on __/__/__ (date) as a Gift Aid donation. I currently pay income tax in the UK".

If you pay us from your CAF account, we can't reclaim tax because the CAF has already reclaimed it for you.

You may also be interested in making regular tax efficient donations direct from your pay packet via the Give As You Earn scheme.

Where the money goes
We endeavour to spend every penny donated on projects to help the Karen people in Thailand.
However, as any charity, we do need to spend a certain amount of money on running costs and to help us raise more money. Our Trustees ensure these are kept to a minimum.