Make a gift

A gift to this Charity goes through five trustees and one Clerk, into the hands of a neighbour.

We pay one part-time Clerk and we print a four-page A5 letter four times a year. Every other pound that reaches us passes through to a household in St Martin's or St Edmund's, or to Trinity Hospital, Salisbury. The figure last year was ninety-six pence in the pound.

A handwritten cheque made out to John Fricker's Charity of 1696, resting on a fountain pen and an envelope addressed to the Trustees' Clerk. — A donation, by post · the older method, still the most common

Step one · how much

Choose an amount.

£5 buys a winter dispatch stamp. £30 sustains one Sunday Doors visit for the whole year. £75 makes a single First Frost grant in full.

Or a custom amount, in pounds sterling

Step two · how often

Step three · which programme

Direct my gift toward (optional)

Step four · you

First name

Last name

House number / name

UK postcode

I would like John Fricker's Charity of 1696 to claim Gift Aid on this and all my donations until I tell you otherwise. I am a UK taxpayer and understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax in the current tax year than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations, it is my responsibility to pay any difference.

Step five · card details

Card number

Expiry (MM/YY)

CVC

Your gift · £30 as a single gift

By giving you agree to our terms and privacy notice. We never sell, swap, or share donor information.

What your gift does

A small, very specific account of where £30, £75 and £200 go.

£30 sustains one Sunday Doors befriending visit for one year: the volunteer's training top-up, the printed local paper they take with them, and the small contribution we make toward their petrol or bus fare from the edge of the city.

£75 is one full First Frost grant: typically a top-up to a household's prepayment gas or electricity meter at the moment they would otherwise self-disconnect.

£200 covers a single Trustees' meeting's worth of Quiet Quarter grants: usually three or four small one-off payments to households whose need does not fit any of our other doorways.

£1,000 is one quarter's stipend to Trinity Hospital, Salisbury — our oldest standing commitment, paid since 1701.

We will tell you, in our quarterly dispatch, exactly what changed because of your gift. We will not send you laminated update postcards. We will not phone you. We will not ask you to upgrade.