# Time for online legacies

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/10/21/time-online-legacies/
- Published: 1999-10-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The first UK charity to accept secure online credit card donations was The Globe
Theatre, which started receiving donations of up to £500 over four years ago in 
September 1995. Four years is that magic period that probate analysts Smee and Ford
suggest is the minimum time in which a legacy campaign might be expected to start
to yield results.
If UK charities had started to use their Web sites to encourage
legacies back in 1995 then they should now in theory start to enjoy some serious
return on their Web site investment.

UK Fundraising looks forward to reporting on the first UK charity to receive legacy
income resulting from an online promotion of legacy giving.

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