On 22nd October 2015, HMRC announced that a new Gift Aid declaration is now in force and that all envelopes bearing the old Gift Aid declaration would be invalid after April 6th 2016.
However, after receiving a series of complaints from charities and churches across the UK, they have now decided to relax the deadline.
Churches and charities that still have large amounts of Gift Aid envelopes bearing the old wording will now have time to use up all of their stock before purchasing new envelopes with the revised wording.
In a message to Lockie, Andrew Kayley, a member of the HMRC Technical team for Charities, Savings and International stated as follows: