How you can help

Make a donation online
For an easy, secure and immediate way to donate money, please visit the Brain Research Trust's donation page, just click on the button below!

Make a donation by cheque
Another safe and easy way to give is by printing our donation form (PDF 82 KB) and sending it with your cheque to the Brain Research Trust.

Direct Debit
Download a bankers order form and set up a direct debit. It's a simple way of giving.

Alternatively, you can set up a standing order at our justgiving page. Any amount you can give will help!

Gift Aid
If you are a UK taxpayer and pay UK income and/or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax the BRT will claim on your donation in the tax year, the BRT can reclaim the tax on your donation under the Gift Aid Scheme (currently 28p for every £1).

Buy a Brain Cell!
Goodgifts.org is an innovative online gift catalogue with a difference - all the items for sale are real gifts delivered by charities to help those they support. One of these is a brain cell! Not only will this help The Brain Research Trust but in shopping at the Good Gifts site you will helping many others in need.

Sharegiving
Since April 2000, there have been new tax incentives to make giving shares to charities even more attractive. Donors giving shares to the BRT are entitled to claim full tax relief equal to the market value of the shares and any associated costs such as brokers' fees. For example, if a higher rate taxpayer gives £1,000 worth of shares to charity, they will pay £400 less in income tax that year.

Additionally, no capital gains tax (CGT) will apply to any increase in the value of the shares donated to charity.  (However, if the shares have fallen in value, the donor will not be able to use this loss to offset any other CGT liability).

There are many reasons why giving shares might appeal to you. You might hold windfall shares as a result of a privatisation or demutualisation that are effectively gathering dust, making little difference to you, but they could make a big difference to The Brain Research Trust. Or, you may own small parcels of shares, perhaps as a result of an inheritance that you regard as a bit of a nuisance as they generate more paperwork than income. These could be turned into something of real value to others by donating these shares to charity.

It's quite straightforward and there is plenty of advice available from organisations such as Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), ShareGift or Community Foundation Network.

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