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Did you know that the National Space Centre is an educational charity and as a charity, we can treat your admission fee as a charitable donation.

What is Gift Aid?

Instead of paying for admission, you can choose to make a donation (equal to the admission price).
By completing a Gift Aid declaration form we can claim back the tax you have already paid, currently 25p in every £1.00 from the Inland Revenue via the Gift aid scheme. The Government will pay to the Charity an additional 3p on every £1 you give between 6 April 2008 and 5 April 2011. This transitional relief for the charity does not effect your tax position.

Who is Eligible?

The terms and conditions of the Gift Aid scheme state that to be eligible to Gift aid you must meet the following criteria.

• An individual must be a UK tax payer, who must pay an amount of income tax and/or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax that the charity reclaims on your donations in the appropriate tax year (this is currently 25p for every £1.00).
• Donations made by individual donors must be from their own money, an individual cannot make a donation under Gift aid using someone else’s money.
• Donors can only donate the admission price for themselves and their immediate family members only.

In return for the donation, you will be offered 12 months admission* to the National Space Centre.

The annual pass is also available to visitors who are unable to or choose not to Gift aid.

Other information

• The information provided is confidential and will only be passed onto the Inland Revenue.
• You may cancel this donation by contacting us within 30 days; this will then be treated as a normal admission fee.
• If you have previously donated at another attraction, you can still donate your admission fee here. You can donate as many times as you like as long as you have paid Income Tax equal to, or more than, the tax being reclaimed by the Charity.

*12 months admission terms and conditions

A visitor will be upgraded to an Annual Pass at no extra cost. An Annual Pass allows 12 months free admission to the pass holder. It does not include subsequent Space Theatre shows, extra programmes and entry to premium events (these are limited to up to 5 days in a 12 month period). The details of premium events are available on our website or by contacting us direct on 0870 607 7223. It does not allow fast track entry or guarantee entry to the Space Centre on busy days. A day pass must be issued on every subsequent visit. Full terms and conditions are given out with every pass and are available on request.

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