Gemma 🔸

• Gemma 🔸 23 Jan 2026 16:48 UTC

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  on: Gemma Pater­son’s Quick takes

  Reminder: claim tax relief on charitable donations (UK PAYE taxpayers)

  If you:

  1. Pay the higher rate of tax in the UK (earn over £50,271 or £43,663 in Scotland)

  2. Don’t fill in a Self Assessment tax return (you pay tax automatically via PAYE)

  3. Made donations that you claimed Gift Aid on in this or any of the previous 4 tax years

  You can use this HMRC link to tell HMRC how much you’ve donated excluding Gift Aid and claim back the difference. More details in this evergreen post.

  Practical tip

  I set my Giving What We Can pledge tracking to run from 6 April to 5 April, which matches the UK tax year. That makes it easy to report the correct annual figure to HMRC.

  Important notes /​ assumptions

  • This does not apply if you donate through Give As You Earn (the relief is already applied).

  • If you’re claiming relief on £10,000 or more of donations, you must also tell HMRC:

    • the date(s) of the donation(s)

    • which charity you donated to

Write your “Why I Donate” post | Lon­don Cowork­ing

• Gemma 🔸 22 Oct 2025 16:20 UTC

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  on: The First Global Ac­count­ing Stan­dard for Non­prof­its Just Launched — And It Might Ac­tu­ally Matter

  Thanks for sharing—this was super helpful! It’s exciting that this is progressing!
  
  Here’s a link to the full implementation guidance (for those that don’t want to share your email address).
  
  I’d be curious what EA grantmakers and charity evaluators think of the harmonised grant reporting format? How does it compare to the existing reporting you request?

• Gemma 🔸 5 Oct 2025 8:47 UTC

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  on: EA Quar­terly Re­view Cowork­ing Q4 FY25

  Hi folks, apologies I forgot to cancel this. I’ve moved to Glasgow and can’t host in London. I won’t be available to let people into LEAH.

  As a consolation, I’m happy to host a virtual co-working session this afternoon at 2pm on the EA Gather town

• Gemma 🔸 8 Sep 2025 20:08 UTC

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  on: EA as An­tichrist: Un­der­stand­ing Peter Thiel

  Really interesting and unexpected read! Thanks for writing!

  This made me giggle:

  I sent a draft of this post to Thiel, who (reasonably) did not respond; probably some errors remain.

• Gemma 🔸 4 Jul 2025 13:33 UTC

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  on: EA Quar­terly Re­view Cowork­ing Q3 FY25

  Due to the good weather, and following the principle that work expands to fill the time we give it, I’m shortening this event to run from 10:30am to 1pm.

  My plan is that we’ll do four 25-minute Pomodoros during this time.
  
  Looking forward to it folks!

• Gemma 🔸 22 May 2025 17:50 UTC

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  in reply to: Toby Tremlett🔹’s comment on: In­tro­duc­ing EA in a non-EA non­profit

  Hi both,

  Yes I have attempted this at my former workplace and in the effective giving context—varying levels of success but I do have thoughts.

  @Jeltsje Boersma I’d be happy to have a quick call about it—feel free to DM me on here

• Gemma 🔸 2 Apr 2025 9:45 UTC

  54 points

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  on: Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism Is No Longer “Effec­tive Altru­ism”-Related

  “It’s like keeping all the benefits of a community while refusing to contribute to its future development or taking responsibility for its challenges. Win-win!”
  
  🔥🔥🔥

• Gemma 🔸 7 Mar 2025 12:29 UTC

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  on: Gemma Pater­son’s Quick takes

  For the tax nerds, cool event next week from the OECD:
  Tax Inspectors Without Borders: A decade of niche assistance to developing countries
  12 March 2024 | 13:45 − 14:45 CET

  https://​​www.tiwb.org/​​resources/​​events/​​oecd-tax-and-development-days-2025-tiwb-a-decade-of-niche-assistance-to-developing-countries.htm

How to spend $200 mil­lion (on 100 billion an­i­mals)

• Gemma 🔸 13 Feb 2025 8:45 UTC

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  on: EA North is hap­pen­ing in Sheffield on Satur­day 26 April

  Great work making this happen!

• Gemma 🔸 5 Jan 2025 10:17 UTC

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  on: EA Quar­terly Re­view Cowork­ing Q1 FY25

  Running late but will be there for first pom at 11

EA Quar­terly Re­view Cowork­ing Q4 FY25

EA Quar­terly Re­view Cowork­ing Q3 FY25

EA Quar­terly Re­view Cowork­ing Q2 FY25

EA Quar­terly Re­view Cowork­ing Q1 FY25

Effec­tive Givers Pub So­cial—Giv­ing What We Can London

• Gemma 🔸 16 Dec 2024 16:21 UTC

  11 points

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  on: My ex­pe­rience with the Com­mu­nity Health team at CEA

  Thank you for sharing this! It is really brave to share but I think it is valuable to have concrete examples of the value they provide

• Gemma 🔸 15 Dec 2024 13:56 UTC

  19 points

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  in reply to: titotal’s comment on: tito­tal’s Quick takes

  I read this more like the guy was lonely and wanted community so was looking for some kind of secular religion to provide grounding to his life.

  I personally think people overrate people’s stated reasons for extreme behaviour and underrate the material circumstances of their life. In particular, loneliness https://​​time.com/​​6223229/​​loneliness-vulnerable-extremist-views/​​

  (would genuinely be interested to hear counter arguments to this! I’m not a researcher so honestly no idea how to go about testing that hypothesis)

• Gemma 🔸 9 Dec 2024 12:35 UTC

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  on: Longter­mism bet­ter from a de­vel­op­ment skep­ti­cal stance?

  I’ve had similar thoughts. My hunch is that the demographic this messaging would land particularly well with would be wealthy older women.