UK mosque treasurers can collect Gift Aid declarations and GASDS evidence at Jumu'ah without rebuilding the HMRC claim in a spreadsheet.

Friday leaves you with a bag of cash, a contactless total that does not name anyone, a handful of standing orders that arrived during the week, Zakat envelopes that must not be mixed with general Sadaqah, a paper Gift Aid file that is never quite complete, and a claim that is already late. The 25p in the pound is not the hard part. The hard part is matching a declaration to a gift, a gift to a fund, and a fund to a line HMRC will accept.

Searchers looking up Gift Aid mosque UK, GASDS mosque, or Gift Aid Islamic charity UK are usually doing the same three jobs with one phrase. This page splits those jobs, points at the live GOV.UK rules, and tells you honestly what MosquePay exports and what it does not submit.

Use it as a single-scroll field guide. Read the job split first, then the GOV.UK requirements, then the Friday failure modes, then the comparison of approaches. The product section comes late on purpose. If a demo cannot answer the puncture questions, you do not need a longer demo. If the job is the tap, the QR poster, and the Friday record rather than the reclaim tests, read the contactless donations mosque UK field guide.

This page is for the treasurer or finance lead in England or Wales, not for a donor looking up how Gift Aid works.

Read this if you sign off the books, hold the HMRC login, or are applying for HMRC charity recognition for a mosque that is, or will be, a registered charity. If you give on a Friday, this is not your explainer. If you want the product questions first, the MosquePay FAQ is shorter.

GOV.UK's guidance on managing faith charities as trustees applies to England and Wales and names mosques among places of worship that are normally charities. Gift Aid itself is an HMRC process. You still need recognition from HMRC before you can claim.

The HMRC recognition page asks for bank account details and financial accounts, officials including dates of birth and National Insurance numbers, a regulator number if you have one, charitable objectives, and the governing document. That pack is how a mosque that is already a Charity Commission charity, or is applying, becomes able to claim tax. Until HMRC recognises you, a Friday declaration file is evidence you cannot yet turn into a repayment.

This page does not cover donors asking whether they personally should tick Gift Aid. It does not cover Scotland or Northern Ireland regulator differences beyond the obvious point that HMRC recognition is still the tax gate. If you are a network treasurer looking after several mosques, treat each HMRC charity reference as its own claim, and do not merge declarations across legal entities because the software can print one export.

Ordinary Gift Aid, GASDS on small anonymous cash and contactless, and ring-fencing Zakat, Sadaqah, and Lillah are three jobs sold as one phrase.

Ordinary Gift Aid is a 25p top-up on a gift from a UK taxpayer who has given you a valid declaration. GOV.UK states that you can claim back 25p every time an individual donates £1, that the donor must have paid at least as much Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax as you want to claim, and that they must make a declaration giving you permission.

GASDS is a different route for small gifts where you do not have a declaration. The small donations scheme page says you may be able to claim 25% on cash donations of £30 or less, and on contactless card donations of £30 or less collected on or after 6 April 2019, without a Gift Aid declaration.

Ring-fencing Zakat, Sadaqah, and Lillah is not a tax scheme. It is the mosque's duty to keep restricted money tagged so the congregation can see that a Zakat envelope did not quietly fund the building. MosquePay's features page says Zakat, Sadaqah, Lillah, and appeal funds are kept separate. That is bookkeeping. It is not a ruling on whether Gift Aid can sit on a Zakat line.

A worked Friday, without inventing recoveries, looks like this. Cash in the tin is mostly anonymous, so those pounds are a GASDS candidate only if each gift is at or under the live GOV.UK small-donation limit and nobody signed a declaration. Contactless taps that collected a full name, home address, and postcode are ordinary Gift Aid candidates. Taps that collected only an amount are GASDS candidates if they meet the same small-donation tests. Standing orders from members who already have a valid declaration on file are ordinary Gift Aid, not GASDS. Zakat envelopes stay in the Zakat fund whether or not a declaration exists. Software can tag the fund and, where the mosque's written policy allows, capture a declaration. It cannot decide the policy for you.

What HMRC actually requires is on GOV.UK, and recognition for tax is not a Charity Commission number.

Start with claiming Gift Aid and claim Gift Aid online. Those pages say your charity must be recognised as a charity for tax purposes, and that you add Charities Online to your HMRC online account. You will be asked to attach a schedule spreadsheet. GOV.UK says you can claim for up to 1,000 donations on each spreadsheet, and that you can also claim through eligible software. Eligible software, on that page, is a way to claim. MosquePay's public pages do not say it is that software. They say HMRC-ready export. You still open Charities Online.

If you do not yet have an HMRC online account, claim Gift Aid online says you register and enrol by selecting Charities as a new user. You will need the charity's postcode, the HMRC reference (up to five numbers, starting with one or two letters), and the customer account number or the last four digits of the bank account. Enrolment sends an activation code by post. GOV.UK says it can take a week and is valid for 28 days. The person who holds that login is the person who submits. Ask who that is before you buy any product that promises to "do Gift Aid".

A Charity Commission number is not the same thing. Get recognition from HMRC is a separate application. The faith-charity trustee page notes that Gift Aid and other tax advantages sit with HMRC, and that you will need to meet Gift Aid conditions, including a declaration from the donor.

Gift Aid declarations must state that the donor has paid enough tax and agrees to Gift Aid being claimed. The declaration must include a description of the gift and state the name of your charity, the donor's full name, and the donor's full home address including their postal code. You must keep a record of declarations for six years after the most recent donation you claimed Gift Aid on.

BBSI has published a short public note that many masjid committees do not know GASDS exists for Friday collections without a declaration. That note points at the same GOV.UK small-donations page. The Association of Taxation Technicians also publishes a how-to-claim guide for charities. Neither replaces HMRC. If a volunteer summary and GOV.UK disagree, file from GOV.UK.

What goes wrong on a Friday is rarely the tax rate. It is the match between declaration, gift, fund, and claim.

The contactless total is a number without a name. The cash bag is names without amounts you can prove. The standing order arrived on Tuesday with no fund tag. The Zakat envelope is in the same tin as general Sadaqah. Someone filled a Gift Aid form in 2019 and you cannot find the postcode. Someone else ticked Gift Aid on a tap and you later put the same pounds through GASDS because the spreadsheet had a blank.

Lincoln Central Mosque and Aylesbury Islamic Centre both publish public Gift Aid forms, which is how many mosques still do this: a PDF or a web form, then a treasurer who types the claim later. Paper is not dishonest. It fails when the form, the banked amount, and the HMRC line are three different stories.

The other Friday failure is claiming GASDS on a gift that already has a declaration. GOV.UK's faith-charity guidance says if you hold a Gift Aid declaration for the donor, you must claim Gift Aid and not use GASDS. The top-up payment guidance says you cannot claim for donations that come with a valid Gift Aid declaration, for membership fees, or for a £30 portion of a larger gift.

Other Friday failures are quieter. A declaration with a first name only will not survive an HMRC check that asks for a full name. A declaration with a town and no postcode is missing the postal code GOV.UK lists as required. A building-fund standing order posted into the general column will make the claim look right and the restricted pot look wrong. A GASDS sheet that uses the week's card total, including declared taps, will over-claim. None of those problems is a 25p arithmetic error. They are a match error.

How treasurers actually assemble a claim: paper, GOV.UK plus a spreadsheet, devices, and mosque software.

This is a jobs table, not a scored bake-off. The only MosquePay row uses claims printed on mosque-pay.com. Other names are public players you will hear in the same search. No feature is invented for them, and this page does not link out to their sites.

Zakat, Gift Aid, and honesty with the congregation are a policy you write down, not a default in software.

This page does not write new fiqh. It does not tell you that Gift Aid on Zakat is allowed, and it does not tell you that it is forbidden. It does not show Gift Aid topping up a Zakat line as a default example, and it does not reproduce the homepage giving mock that treats a Zakat amount as Gift Aid eligible. That mock is not a policy.

One public MosquePay page, /charity, says Gift Aid is not claimed on Zakat paid as an obligation. That is a sentence on a demo mosque donation page, not a ruling this guide adopts, and not a reason to leave the congregation guessing. The live marketing site is not consistent on this point. Your written policy is what the giver and the auditor can trust.

Write the mosque's Gift Aid-on-Zakat policy down where the treasurer, the imam, and the accountant can all find it. Show that policy on the donate flow so a giver can see how the mosque will treat their gift before they give. Confirm the religious treatment with your imam and the tax treatment with your accountant before any Zakat line appears in a Gift Aid export. The mosque-side collection path, including envelopes, transfers, QR, and the restricted pack, is in the collect Zakat online UK mosque field guide.

Software behaviour, and only software behaviour, is this. MosquePay's public features page says Zakat, Sadaqah, Lillah, and appeal funds are kept separate, and that Gift Aid declarations can be captured at the point of giving. Keep the funds tagged. Capture a declaration where the mosque's written policy allows it. Do not let a tick-box invent a ruling.

GASDS written for a mosque, because Chapter 8 already names mosques as community buildings.

HMRC's Chapter 8 guidance on GASDS from 6 April 2017 lists mosques among examples of buildings that can be community buildings. If your mosque meets the community-building tests, read that chapter for the collection and record rules that go with it.

Chapter 8 says a community building is a building, or part of one, that the charity uses to run charitable activities, and that those activities must reach a group of at least ten beneficiaries at the same time without charging for access to that part of the building. The small-donations scheme page says you need to have hosted at least six charity events there, each attended by at least ten people. Jumu'ah in a mosque is the obvious candidate. Confirm both pages rather than assuming every prayer space qualifies in every tax year.

On 1 September 2026, the small-donations page said you may claim 25% on cash donations of £30 or less and on contactless card donations of £30 or less collected on or after 6 April 2019, that from 6 April 2016 you can claim up to £2,000 in a tax year, and that your GASDS claim cannot be more than 10 times your Gift Aid claim. That last point is the matching rule. The example on GOV.UK is that you can claim on £1,000 of GASDS donations if you have received £100 of Gift Aid donations in the same tax year.

The same page says your charity must have claimed Gift Aid in the same tax year as you want to claim GASDS, and must not have received a penalty in the last two tax years. The top-up payment guidance works the top-up the same way as Gift Aid: if the basic rate is 20%, a £30 gift can produce a £7.50 top-up, and the maximum small-donations top-up from 6 April 2016 is the lower of £8,000 of donations or ten times your Gift Aid donations.

Do not claim GASDS on a gift that already has a declaration. Do not take a £30 slice out of a larger gift. Do not treat a membership fee as a small donation. Those exclusions are on GOV.UK, not on this page's invention.

Keep the records HMRC asks for: the total cash collected, the date of the collection, the date it was paid into a bank account, and receipts from the card machine for contactless. Community-building claims also need the address including postcode, the type of event, how many events you held, an estimate of how many people attended, and when you collected. The top-up guidance says two people should ideally check and count the cash, and that you should keep small-donation records for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to. If two GOV.UK pages give different retention periods, keep the longer set.

Questions that puncture a software demo before you sign anything.

Ask these out loud. The answers sort an export tool from a Charities Online submit product, and a tagged fund from a single giving total.

1. Does the product submit the claim through Charities Online, or does it give you an export that you still attach yourself? MosquePay's honest answer is export. Public FAQ and features copy says HMRC-ready exports with evidence. It does not say MosquePay is on HMRC's Charities Online commercial software suppliers list.
2. Can it show the donor's full name, home address, and postcode on the declaration, or only a tick box?
3. Can a Friday gift be split across Zakat, Sadaqah, Lillah, and a general or building fund so the claim line matches the restriction? Does the product Gift Aid a Zakat line by default, or does it follow a written mosque policy that you can also show on the donate flow?
4. Does GASDS exclude gifts that already have a declaration, or can the same pounds appear in both columns?
5. Who holds the HMRC Charities Online account after you buy the software: the mosque, the treasurer as an individual, or the vendor?
6. Where does settlement go? MosquePay's pricing page says gifts settle directly to your mosque's own bank account.
7. Is there a markup on card processing? The same pricing page says you pay only the payment provider's standard card rates and that MosquePay adds no markup. The named payment partner on that page is Mooov.

What MosquePay will show you in a 30-minute walkthrough is only what the public pages already claim.

Book a demo is a 30-minute call. Bring last Friday's cash sheet, the contactless total, and one standing-order line that still has no fund tag. The walkthrough should stay inside claims printed on mosque-pay.com.

You should see Gift Aid declarations captured at the point of giving, whether the gift is online or recorded by your team, and attached to eligible gifts. You should see GASDS cash collections logged per service. You should see HMRC-ready exports with the evidence behind every line. You should see Zakat, Sadaqah, Lillah, and appeal funds kept separate. You should hear that settlement goes to the mosque's own bank account, that MosquePay adds no card-processing markup, and that Mooov is the payment partner named on pricing.

You should not be told that MosquePay submits the claim to HMRC. You should not be told that MosquePay is on HMRC's Charities Online commercial software suppliers list. Those sentences are not on the public site. iCHARMS does claim listed submission on its own Gift Aid pages. That is a competitor fact, not a MosquePay feature.

MosquePay is operated by Neural Network Group Limited, company number 16606065. The contact email currently printed on the public contact page is ag@experrt.com. If you want to start onboarding rather than watch a demo first, get started.

What this page skipped, on purpose.

This page does not invent how much your mosque would recover if last Friday had been claimed correctly. It does not award MosquePay a first-place badge against iCHARMS, GiftAider, PledgeNow, or a contactless box. It does not reprint HMRC supplier lists. It does not change the currency printed on the live pricing page. It does not treat /news as a home for this guide. /news is the product changelog. It does not use /charity or /donate, which are demo mosque pages. It does not reproduce any marketing mock that Gift Aids a Zakat line.

Gift Aid is a declaration, a gift, a fund, and a claim that still have to match.

If you remember one line, remember that. Collect the declaration when the gift is given. Log anonymous cash and contactless for GASDS only when no declaration exists. Keep Zakat, Sadaqah, and Lillah tagged. Export the evidence. Submit the claim from the mosque's own HMRC account. Then check that the four parts still tell the same story.

Questions treasurers ask after they have counted Friday's collection.

Can a mosque claim Gift Aid?

Yes, if the mosque is recognised by HMRC as a charity for tax purposes and the gift meets Gift Aid rules, including a valid declaration from a UK taxpayer. A Charity Commission number on its own is not HMRC recognition. Check the live GOV.UK pages on claiming Gift Aid and on getting recognition from HMRC before you file.

Do we need a Charity Commission number?

You may need to register with the Charity Commission if your organisation is based in England or Wales and meets the Commission's own tests. That is a separate step from HMRC charity recognition. GOV.UK's faith-charity trustee guidance says Gift Aid is run by HMRC. You claim Gift Aid only after HMRC recognises the mosque for tax purposes.

Can we claim on Friday cash without a form?

Ordinary Gift Aid needs a Gift Aid declaration. If there is no declaration, you may still be able to claim a GASDS top-up on small cash gifts of £30 or less, provided the mosque meets the live GASDS eligibility and matching rules on GOV.UK. Do not put a gift through GASDS when you already hold a valid declaration for it.

Does GASDS cover contactless?

Yes, on the live GOV.UK pages. The small-donations scheme page says you may be able to claim 25% on contactless card donations of £30 or less collected on or after 6 April 2019. The detailed top-up guidance also describes contactless from 6 April 2017. Keep the card-terminal evidence HMRC asks for, and re-read those pages before you claim.

What records does HMRC expect?

For ordinary Gift Aid, GOV.UK says the declaration must include the charity name, the donor's full name, the donor's full home address including postcode, and a description of the gift, and you must keep declarations for six years after the most recent donation you claimed on. For GASDS, GOV.UK asks for the total collected, the collection date, the date the money was paid into a bank account, and contactless receipts where you used a terminal. Community-building claims need extra place and event records. Follow the longer of the published retention periods if two GOV.UK pages disagree.

Can Gift Aid be claimed on Zakat?

This page does not give a fiqh ruling and does not set a MosquePay default. Do not copy the homepage mock that Gift Aids a Zakat line. Write the mosque's Gift Aid-on-Zakat policy down, show it on the donate flow, keep Zakat tagged separately from Sadaqah and Lillah, and confirm the religious and tax treatment with your imam and accountant before any Zakat line appears in a claim.

Does MosquePay submit the claim?

No. MosquePay's public pages say it produces HMRC-ready exports with the evidence behind every line. You, or the person who holds the mosque's HMRC Charities Online account, still attach the schedule and submit the claim. MosquePay does not claim to appear on HMRC's Charities Online commercial software suppliers list.

Do we have to stop cash?

No. Friday cash remains a normal mosque collection. The work is to count it, bank it, decide whether each gift is ordinary Gift Aid, GASDS, or neither, and keep restricted funds tagged. Contactless and standing orders sit beside cash. They do not replace the need for a declaration, a GASDS log, or a written Zakat policy.