The cheque/check is in the mail...

but you don't need one if you deposit electronically!

We receive requests occasionally from supporters who would like to arrange an automatic deposit from their pay to help us and we have finally set up an account for this purpose. If you are setup for online banking or your employer has a payroll program for an automatic deduction to charities, you can donate to us by putting money straight into the account we've set up. This makes a donation much easier since you don't have to worry about mail being lost or changing conversion rates to Australian dollars.

If you want to make a donation to us that is also deductable from your taxes, then you need to donate into our public fund account (not our regular account!) - the Save Our Frogs Fund.

However, if you are a business wishing to take up a sponsorship, then you should still continue to use the sponsorship account detailed below. Sponsorships are tax deductable to you as an advertising expense and we have to pay GST on that money.

If you want to make a donation via a credit card, we are unable to do that directly but we have an arrangement with a larger frog group to receive credit card donations for us. They have an online shop and a secure website so you can be comfortable making a donation for us. The link to their subhome page is www.frogs.org.au/groups - from there, just go to the page for the Frog Decline Reversal Project, Inc. Please note however, that credit card donations made via frogs.org.au will NOT be tax deductable!

If you would like to use any of these donation options, please email us after the first time you have arranged for a deposit to provide the following information: (the email is curator *at* fdrproject *dot* org *dot* au - substitute the words for the correct characters - we have to do this so the address is not machine readable)

  1. your name and postal address
  2. the amount you have sent and what currency
  3. whether this is a one time donation or part of a regular payroll deduction
  4. whether you want your donation to remain anonymous

The details for the sponsorship account are as follows (this is NOT the tax deductable account):
(Please note that members wishing to pay their new or renewal memberships online must use THIS account - NOT our public fund account!)

Bendigo Bank
BSB no. 633-000
account no. 120692181

 

The bank account to use for donations which are tax deductable is:

Bendigo Bank
BSB - 633-000
account - 127294031

If you would like to make an online donation to the Save Our Frogs Fund, we MUST have your name and street address for your tax deductable receipt. If you are making a donation of property or a large financial amount, the following details from the Register of Environmental Organisations website may be useful to you:

  • A donor who has donated a gift of $5,000 or more to an environment or heritage organisation has the opportunity to claim the donation against their tax returns over a five year period.
  • A capital gains tax exemption applies for gifts of property left in a will to an eligible organisation.
  • There are income taxation concessions for landowners entering conservation covenants with eligible organisations, this includes States, Territories, some local governments and some non-government organisations.

Just a few of the key items we are looking to acquire to facilitate frog conservation include:

  • a Smart car or hybrid as we currently have no transportation
  • a lease arrangement to use acreage land in a rainforested area within two hours drive of Cairns to establish natural frog breeding ponds; this would need to include a curator's residence so mains power/remote solar and telephone service would be required
  • funding to allow remote surveying in bush areas to determine the extent of amphibian disease problems outside developed areas
  • income to employ several paid staff, as reliable volunteers in this region are in extremely short supply
  • production of educational materials for veterinarians, keepers, rangers and school age children
  • funding to provide uni students with small ecological and pathological projects to further our knowledge about the lesser known factors which may be involved in frog decline (for example, we might wish to fund a project which would tell us if the nutrient levels in insects or the diversity of insects have changed. The resistence of frogs to diseases is dependant on a good food supply, but if the bugs have suddenly become nutritionally deficient or are disappearing, this might explain why frogs are in such poor condition even when the habitat is available.)

 

Any and all help is appreciated and no donation is too small. Even a deduction of $5 per payroll adds up over the year. If you have any questions, just let us know, and thanks for your concern about our dwindling frog populations.

 

Last edited: June 17th, 2007