Ways to give

Donate

You can use these links to make secure, online donations to Sight Support Derbyshire. Choose whether to set up regular, online payments or make a one-off donation.

Set up regular giving

Make a one off donation

If you are a tax payer, please remember to claim Gift Aid, as the Government will boost your donation and give us 25p for every £1 you donate, helping your money go further.

We can also accept one-off donations by card over the phone at our Derby office. Please call us on 01332 292262. You can also make a one-off donation by text. Please text SSD10 and the amount you would like to donate for 70070. For example, to donate £10 you would text SSD1010.

Sight Support Derbyshire handles information given by our donors very carefully. Click here to view our Data Protection Information.

Thank you very much for donating to Sight Support Derbyshire. Without your help, we couldn’t do what we do for visually impaired adults and children.

Payroll Giving

Payroll Giving, also known as Give As You Earn, is a HM Revenue & Customs scheme that enables employees to donate tax free through their pay to any charity in the UK. Over 10,000 employers in the UK operate the scheme.

It is one of the best ways to support us, because regular donations help to provide us with reliable income. This makes it easier for us to plan ahead with our services.

On each payday, an amount of your choice is deducted by your payroll department and sent to Sight Support Derbyshire. Your donations are taken before tax, meaning that for every £1 you give it will only cost you 80p (60p if you are a higher rate tax payer) – the taxman will pay the rest.

Click here to sign up online. Have your payroll or employer number, and your National Insurance number to hand. You will find them on your payslip. Alternatively, you can print off a copy and return it to us by post.

For employers, find out more at www.payrollgiving.co.uk

Giving in Memory

When a loved one dies, it’s comforting to remember all the happy times and celebrate their life.

One way to do this is to make a gift to charity in their memory, especially one which was close to their heart, or helped them. If you choose Sight Support Derbyshire, you will be bringing hope and practical support to people who have little or no sight.

There are several ways to do this. You may wish to make a personal donation, which you can do online through our ‘donate’ page or by contacting us.

Many people now choose to request donations in lieu of flowers at the funeral. Your Funeral Director will advise you on how to do this.

An online Tribute Fund can enable friends, family and colleagues near and far to make a donation. The simplest way to set one up is through Just Giving, by clicking here.

However you make your gift, please download and complete the Donations In Memory form, so we know who you are remembering, and can thank those who have made a contribution (we will not use their personal details for any other purpose).

You can choose to have a page in memory of your loved one in our Book of Remembrance, which is kept at our head office, and can also be viewed online. Please download and complete the Book of Remembrance form if you would like to include them.

Thank you for considering Sight Support Derbyshire, your kindness is greatly appreciated.

Testimonial:

“Sight Support Derbyshire has been a real lifesaver – for me and my husband. You have helped him to focus on what he can do and helped him to access equipment and support.”

Leaving a legacy

Your Will is your gift for the future. It is a way to say thank you to family, friends and others who have supported you during your life. It is easy to put off making a Will, but now is always the right time to make sure those who matter most to you are taken care of.

Who you decide to remember in your Will is entirely your choice. It is your opportunity to ensure your personal wishes are carried out. If you are considering leaving a gift to charity, it won’t cost you anything now, but will benefit future generations.

Legacy gifts make a real difference to the work that we can do at Sight Support Derbyshire, and account, on average, for over 7 per cent of our income each year. This is the equivalent cost of running our hospital advice service and our children and young people’s activities. We are extremely grateful for any legacies we receive.

Download our useful leaflet for information about how to make a Will, what to bear in mind when leaving a gift to a charity, and how leaving a legacy to Sight Support Derbyshire could help local blind and partially sighted adults and children.

Testimonial:

“Dad decided to leave a gift in his Will to Sight Support Derbyshire, as his way of saying ‘thank you’ for all the help he had received. It’s a comfort to me to know that through this gift, Dad is helping other people who are facing sight loss like he did.”

Collection boxes

Taking care of the pennies certainly adds up to pounds. Every year, over £5000 is raised towards our services through collection boxes in shops, pubs and other small businesses.

If you would like a collection box for your place of work please get in touch. We will supply the boxes, exchange them when they’re full and let you know how much your customers have raised.

We can also let you have a collection box to use in your home.

Online shopping

Raise money for Sight Support Derbyshire when you shop online – at no extra cost to yourself!

Sign up at easyfundraising to shop with more than 2,700 leading retailers, who will make a donation to us every time you buy. Download the handy toolbar and you’ll know instantly if you’re on a website where the seller donates.

Amazon, John Lewis, eBay and Tesco are among the retailers in the scheme, and you can even use the site when you’re buying insurance, booking hotels, flights, or doing your online food shop.

Click here to sign up.

Recycling

Turn your unwanted or broken items into a donation for Sight Support Derbyshire through our recycling scheme. Not only will you be helping the environment, you’ll be boosting our services for local blind and partially sighted adults and children.

We accept:

• Selected inkjet printer cartridges. Please contact us first to see if we can recycle them.
• Unwanted / broken jewellery, watches and foreign currency.
• Mobile phones, cameras, video cameras, gaming consoles, Ipods and MP3 players, laptops, Sat Navs and Tablets. These can be working or non-working items.

Contact us for more information.

Play our lottery

Join the Sight Support Derbyshire lottery and you could win up to £25,000!

It costs £1 a week to play. For every £1 spent, we get 50p towards our services. And if one of our players hits the £25,000 jackpot, we get £2,500! Everyone’s a winner!

Sign up, and you will be given your own 6-digit number. Every Saturday a random number is drawn. Match all 6 digits and you win the £25,000 jackpot. Match 3, and you get 5 free entries in the next draw. You’ll win £25 if you match 4 digits, and £1,000 if you match 5.

Sight Support Derbyshire’s lottery is run by Unity Lottery. Read the full rules and weekly draw result at www.unitylottery.co.uk

To join, contact us today!

Enter our Winter Raffle

Enter the Sight Support Derbyshire Winter Raffle and you could win:
£250 cash donated by Western Cars
A Denby Halo 12 piece tableware set
A Family Ticket to Chatsworth House and Gardens
A Family Pass and drinks at The Lost City Adventure Golf, Nottingham
A Family Ticket for Heights of Abraham
Weekday Lunch for 2 at the Dovecote Restaurant, Morley Hayes
£10 voucher for Morrison’s, Ilkeston
£10 Marks and Spencer voucher
One month’s membership at JD Gyms, Derby
£15 voucher for The Entertainer toy shop

Tickets are £1 each or £5 for a book of five.
Please return any monies, counterfoils and unsold tickets to our Derby office by Wednesday 30th January 2018.
The raffle will take place Thursday 31st January 2019. Raffle conforms to the Gambling Act 2005 with Derby City Council.

To buy tickets or order books of tickets to sell for us, contact us today!

Christmas Cards

Our Christmas cards are now on sale from our office in Derby, Derby Cathedral Shop in Derby, and the Cromford Mill Shop. They come in packs of ten with proceeds going towards our services to help local blind and partially sighted adults and children keep their independence.

To order packs of cards, contact us today!

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