Charities and the GivingForce Foundation

The GivingForce Foundation processes Matching payments to beneficiaries for bp employees worldwide as well as for employees of HSBC Canada.

The GivingForce Foundation also processes payroll giving donations - sometimes referred to as Give As You Earn (GAYE) - for bp employees in the UK, Australia, US and Canada.  The GivingForce Foundation is an HMRC-approved and registered Payroll Giving Agency (PGA) in the United Kingdom.

Wherever possible, the GivingForce Foundation will make payments to beneficiary organisations and send remittance details electronically. If you are a beneficiary organisation you may therefore be contacted by the GivingForce team requesting bank details.

For the UK and US, if we don’t have a beneficiary organisation’s bank details, we will make payment by cheque. Cheque payments are slower, have a higher risk of fraud/loss, and are more expensive to administer. They are also not environmentally friendly. We would much prefer to make all payments electronically.

For other countries, if we don’t have a beneficiary organisation’s bank details, we will be unable to remit the funds at all. We always endeavour to obtain bank details, but if we are unable to, the funds will be distributed to another charity at the discretion of the GivingForce Foundation.

All Payroll Giving donations and Matching requests are self-managed by employees using the GivingForce Portal – see www.givingforce.com for more details.

Please note that any bp GAYE payments in Canada and the USA were administered by CyberGrants prior to 31st March 2021 and you will need to contact CyberGrants directly if you have a query about an older donation.