I’m disturbed by a couple of things in this thread:
@OllieBase is giving very confident tax advice, which I’m not sure is correct
It seems to be contradicted by a later email exchange between the EAG team and Lovkush
In that email exchange, it turns out that we could choose the free ticket and then separately make a tax-deductible donation to CEA through GWWC
Why isn’t this more publicised? Every UK tax payer would benefit from this (or CEA themselves would benefit by being able to claim 25% extra)
Is there much administrative overhead to claim Gift Aid?
If 500(?) people are paying £400 (for a total of £200,000), you can claim £50,000 from the government which seems like it should be worthwhile
And it’s not too late to collect people’s Gift Aid declarations (section 3.6.3 here)