Donate to Plymouth Guild through Clever Squirrel

Posted on 3rd Jun

If you want to give more money to Plymouth Guild, you'll love Cleversquirrel. Cleversquirrel unearths money you may not know you had. There's literally tens of millions of pounds of it available each year.

Hidden in many investment, pension and insurance policies are charges that can be claimed by an adviser. If you don't have an adviser for your policy, you're paying for something and getting nothing. Your money stays with the financial institution and cannot be cancelled or refunded. Cleversquirrel reclaims these charges and donates them to your chosen charity, making the most of money you've already paid. All it takes is one signature from you. Charities Trust, a national donation management agency approved by HM Revenue & Customs handles the donations.

Cleversquirrel is free to use for everyone. All you need is a valid email address. You'll provide some basic details and choose your favourite charity – Plymouth Guild. And here's a major point. You don't need a policy to raise money for your favourite charity.
That's because the Guild receives a donation when people you introduce have charges reclaimed on their policies. Half the money reclaimed goes to us. And half goes to yours. It's a 'thank you' for the introductions. You spread the word and your favourite charity benefits.

Quite simply, if you introduce lots of people with many policies, you could raise a pile of cash. It enables people without policies to raise money for the cause they care most about. Employers who promote Cleversquirrel to their staff can help boost the coffers of their 'charity of the year'. And charities themselves can create a brand new income stream from their existing donors and supporters by introducing them to Cleversquirrel.
You have your own page on Cleversquirrel. You can do as much or as little as you like on it. You can link to your favourite charity's page. You can link to your friends' pages to see who they're supporting. Most importantly, you can list your policy numbers. As that's the source of the donations.

The Guild has its own page too. It can link with all the 'Cleversquirrels' who have chosen it as their favourite. It can post upcoming events and new fundraising initiatives. These comments are automatically sent to 'Cleversquirrels' supporting it, showing the good things that are happening from these new donations.
It takes a great deal of time and effort to make Cleversquirrel work. So it might surprise you to learn that 80% of the reclaimed policy charges are donated to charity. Cleversquirrel is committed to giving the most money to charity and if there's a surplus after costs, expansion and development works, it's donated to charity.

It's often the simplest ideas that are the best. And Cleversquirrel is one of these. With very little of your time, you really can make a difference. But only if you do something positive. So please go to www.cleversquirrel.com/plymouthguild. Read the detail. Watch the movie. Join. List your policies, if you have any. Then spread the word. For until you do, money that's available for donation will remain with providers and won't be donated to good causes – like the Guild!