Find out how you can donate your shares using ShareGift, helping us to achieve our vision of fewer people dying by suicide.
How does ShareGift work?
Have shares which are uneconomic to sell? Help support us by donating your small shareholdings to ShareGift, the share donation charity. ShareGift specialise in accepting small shareholdings that would cost more to sell than they are worth, generating substantial funding for charities. ShareGift also accept larger donations of shares. By mentioning Samaritans when donating your shares to ShareGift, your shares can help us reach more people who are struggling to cope.
Samaritans have already received £190,000 from ShareGift to date.
Who are ShareGift?
ShareGift is an independent UK registered charity (No. 1052686) which specialises in releasing the money locked up in small shareholdings, but accept donations of any size. ShareGift works by collecting together small lots of shares until there are enough to sell and then donating the resulting proceeds to a wide range of charities.
If you are a UK taxpayer, you can claim income tax relief on the value of most stocks and securities when you donate them to a charity. In addition, donating shares charitably gives rise to neither a gain nor a loss for Capital Gains Tax (CGT) purposes.
To date ShareGift has donated nearly £50million to more than 3,600 charities. ShareGift make their grants based upon a variety of factors including the suggestions of their donors. You can help support Samaritans work by donating any size of shareholdings you may have to ShareGift, and mentioning Samaritans.