[GNC] Bookkeeping for a club's charity account - use business features?

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 8/23/2019 10:59 AM, Wm via gnucash-user wrote:
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>> For example, the price of the meals at meetings is rounded up to the 
>> nearest pound, and the remainder is earmarked for “Charity Choice”. 
>> Not all members attend every meeting, and some members skip the meal 
>> and make a token payment to Charity Choice. There are several such 
>> income headings to deal with.
>
> Sounds like crap to me.
>
> Think about this: I went to dinner with my mates, said it cost more 
> than it did and said the difference was for charity.  Would you 
> believe me?
>
>> The difficulty is that it must be possible to document each 
>> individual member’s contributions over the year in order to make a 
>> Gift Aid claim to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which 
>> tops up the members’ contributions by 25%.
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> OK, it sounds to me like you're being asked to cheat HMRC.  Are you 
> prepared to do that? 

You know all that much, both about the charitable components (tax 
deductible, need to be reported separately) of organizations that while 
non-profit (tax exempt) are not "deductible" << for example, a 
"fraternal" society -- what this is >> and specifically what is required 
in the UK?

What was asked for here seemed perfectly above board to me. Besides 
being treasurer of 501(c)3's I also belong to organizations that are not 
deductible BUT do sometimes make charitable donations. In some cases, 
that is a lot of what these organizations do beyond their social 
functions << Lions, Shriners, etc. >>  I do not know how they report 
even here in the US let alone in the UK.

Michael D Novack