Through its clinical services and the
osteopathic treatment being provided by its ever-growing
number of graduates, the BSO continues to help keep
people mobile and to help relieve the symptoms of a
range of musculo-skeletal conditions.
At the BSO we think that osteopathy should be accessible
to everyone: our costs are low and we can offer a swift
service to patients who might face long waits for alternative
treatment via the NHS.
We run a range of award-winning outreach community
osteopathy clinics which are free to patients and we
run excellent on-site clinics at our clinical centre,
which is currently the largest of its kind in Europe.
The BSO is a leader in osteopathic research, the design
and delivery of osteopathic education, and in the expansion
of evidence-based practice within osteopathy. You may
wish to fund research or bursaries.
Please help us in this vital work by making
a donation to the British School of Osteopathy, Registered
Charity No. 312873
Examples of where your money could go:
From April 2008 a £50 monthly gift-aided donation
to the BSO, would be worth £64.10. This gift could
cover the costs of two hours of our community clinic
for older people at Lucy Brown House.
A gift of £100 could purchase a new chair for
the clinic.
A gift of £1,000 could buy us a new plinth.
Why not name a treatment room at our new clinic to
commemorate a loved one? Thanks to Gift Aid, a £25,000
gift need only cost higher rate tax payers £19,500
and could be made over four annual donations of £4,875.
Ways you can help:
Please let us know if you wish your donation to go
to a specific area of our work. For further information
please contact Anna Somerset, Head of Fundraising a.somerset@bso.ac.uk
or 020 7089 5336
Standing order
To set up a standing order please download, complete
this form and send it back to us. If you also complete
the Gift Aid declaration you will increase the value
of your contribution by 25%. Regular monthly or quarterly
donations are particularly beneficial to the BSO as
they allow us to plan ahead knowing that funding is
in place. By setting up a standing order with your bank
you can make a regular gift to the BSO for however long
as you like. Setting up a standing order has never been
easier and could make the world of difference to our
work.
Making an individual gift
If you would like to make an online donation you can
do so securely via: www.bmycharity.com/bso.
This donation can be gift-aided.
You may wish to talk to us on 0207 407 0222 before
making a donation. Otherwise, please make your cheque
out to: The British School of Osteopathy and send it
to Fundraising Department, BSO, 275 Borough High Street,
London, SE1 1JE. Please
fill in a Gift Aid declaration form if applicable.
All you have to do is fill in a Gift Aid declaration
form to say you are eligible for Gift Aid if you are
a UK tax payer to allow the BSO to reclaim the tax on
your donation. Make your money go further and provide
more osteopathic treatments – helping even more
people.
ALL donations from UK tax-payers, regardless of size,
qualify for Gift Aid!
Gifts of Shares
Do you own small numbers of shares that you consider
to be of little value to yourself? You could donate
them to the share donation charity ShareGift and benefit
the British School of Osteopathy at the same time.
ShareGift is an independent charity, operated by the
Orr Mackintosh Foundation (registered charity number
1052686) which specialises in accepting donations of
small holdings of shares. They collect these shares
until they have enough to sell and donate the funds
generated through this work to other UK charities,
including Kidney Research UK.
Quite often, small quantities of shares can cost more
to sell than they are worth, but by collecting these
uneconomic small parcels of shares into saleable amounts,
ShareGift is able to use these wasted assets for charitable
benefit.
There is no charge to you or the British School of
Osteopathy for using ShareGift.
Please visit www.sharegift.org for
more information on how to donate your shares.
Naming opportunities
From time to time opportunities arise of naming rooms
and facilities at the BSO after your company, your trust,
yourself or in memory of someone special. The
new clinic offers some excellent opportunities of this
kind.
Donors can be acknowledged with a name plaque. For
example Alan and Sheila Diamond recently sponsored the
BSO’s main lecture theatre, naming it the Adela
Diamond Lecture Theatre. The BSO is delighted to have
this chance to publicly recognise our sponsors.
If you wish to take up a naming opportunity please
contact: Anna Somerset, Head of Fundraising (see above).
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