Help support our work

The Tolkien Society is a voluntary organisation registered as a Charity in England. The general costs of running the Society, including publishing Amon Hen and Mallorn, are met from membership subscriptions. However funding of other activities depends on donations. In the past such activities have included assisting with the conservation of books by Tolkien in the British Library and providing copies of The Hobbit for schools in Africa.

Current projects for which the Society is actively raising funds include:

If you would like to make a donation to the work of the Society you can do so online using your Visa Credit or Debit Card, your JCB, Solo, or Mastercard, or your Charities Aid Foundation card or a UK issued Maestro card. You can also send donations by post using any of these cards or by sending cheques, postal orders, money orders or Charities Aid Fund vouchers payable to "The Tolkien Society".

The address for postal donations is:

The Tolkien Society, 655 Rochdale Road, Walsden, Todmorden, Lancashire, OL14 6SX

Don't forget that if you send us a donation by post and are a UK tax payer you can make your donation more valuable to us by including a Gift Aid declaration. Just include the wording given below together with your name and address. Remember to sign and date the declaration.

To make a donation with your CharityCard follow this link.

Donations can also be made to the Society via the GiveNow web site. The GiveNow site allows you to make anonymous donations to the Society if you wish. GiveNow may deduct a small administration charge from your donation to cover their costs, details are on their website.

If you pay taxes in the U.S.A. and would like your donation to be eligible for U.S. tax breaks you should make your donation via Charities Aid Foundation America. Note that this does not allow on-line donations but prepares a form for you to print out, sign and send with your donation to CAF America. CAF America deduct a small administration charge from your donation to cover their costs, details are on their website.

To make a donation by credit or debit card please complete and submit the form below. Note that our bank charges us 60p for transaction for debit cards and 4.8% of the amount for all other card transactions.

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We can only accept the listed cards. In particular please note that we cannot accept MAESTRO cards issued outside the United Kingdom.
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More information about these projects can be found using the following links: The Tolkien Centre; The Society's archives; The Peter Roe Fund; Providing books to libraries.

Please note that although we will use our best efforts to ensure that your donation is used to support your preferred project, the Trustees of the Society reserve the right to use donations made via this page in the way that they consider best meets the aims of the Society.

Gift aid - allow us to reclaim tax!

The Gift Aid is a UK Government scheme which supports charities by allowing them to claim back tax paid by donors. If you are a UK tax payer your completion and return of this declaration will enable us to recover tax (currently 28p for every £1 you pay) on your donations to the Society. The only restriction is that you must have paid as much tax as we reclaim (this can be any income tax or capital gains tax including tax deducted at source by banks or building societies and tax credits on share dividends and regardless of rate at which tax was deducted).

Gift Aid Declaration:

This declaration confirms my wish to make donations and membership payments to The Tolkien Society under the Gift Aid Scheme and applies to all donations and membership payments made by me from 6 April 2000. I understand that I must pay an amount of Income or Capital Gains Tax in the relevant tax year equal to any tax reclaimed by The Tolkien Society in that period.

I confirm that I am a UK tax payer, resident in the UK for tax purposes and that I will advise The Tolkien Society if this situation changes.