New Zealand charities to launch Make A Will Week
Howard Lake | 14 August 2002 | News
The New Zealand initiative was inspired by the UK’s Make a Will Week.
New Zealand charities are collaborating with the New Zealand Law Society in a Make A Will Week, which will start on 19 August 2002.
The initiative encourages people to write a will and consider including a charitable bequest. It was inspired by the UK Make A Will Week with a charity theme that ran in the UK in 1999.
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Sebastian Wilberforce proposed the initiative in New Zealand two years ago. He was formerly a charities representative on the UK committee that liaised with the Law Society in 1998/99.
Wilberforce, now director of Wellington-based Fundraising Consultancy Services, said: “We hope for great things from it, and my wish is that it should evolve into a campaign akin to the Legacy Promotion Campaign in Britain to run here in a year or two.”
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.