# Two spinsters leave £27 million to charity

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/06/09/two-spinsters-leave-27m-charity/
- Published: 2000-06-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Two elderly spinsters who lived quietly in London, helping to clean at their local
Catholic church, have left £27m in their wills to charity
Two elderly spinsters 
who lived quietly in London, helping to clean at their local Catholic church, have
left £27m in their wills to charity.

Friends had no idea of Mary ‘Kathleen’ Coyle and Florence Reakes’ wealth, which 
was pledged to the Albert Hunt Trust. The interest on the trust’s capital, which
now stands at £35m, is distributed to 350 small charities working with the homeless
and the young.

Read Spinsters who cleaned church leave £26m to charity at Ananova.

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