# Will Aid encourages all charities to promote leaving a legacy

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/07/17/will-aid-encourages-all-charities-promote-leaving-legacy/
- Published: 2009-07-17T09:43:59+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Will Aid, the partnership of nine charities that recruits solicitors all over the
UK to give their time for free to draw up basic Wills, is encouraging all UK charities
to promote the campaign which runs again in November 2009.

 

The 2008 Will Aid campaign was “the most successful ever” with over £950,000 being
raised from donations. The NSPCC has also received £54,000 from a legacy left by
a Will Aid Will-maker, bringing the total to £1 million. In addition, over £5.4 
million has been pledged to the Will Aid charities and many Will-makers will have
left legacies to their other favourite charities and causes.

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The Will Aid partnership is therefore urging as many charities as possible to promote
the scheme to their supporters as a way of generating legacy income.

 

Shirley Marsland, Will Aid campaign Manager, said: “Whilst Will Aid donations are
shared by the Will Aid charities, people are free to make a legacy to any charity
they choose. So any charity can benefit from the scheme.

 

“If you are a legacy manager wondering how to turn your supporters’ good intentions
to leave a legacy into a reality, then Will Aid is a really effective prompt to 
encourage people to actually get on a make that Will or add an all important codicil
to an existing one.

 

“The Will Aid partnership charities are pleased to be able to spread the benefits
of the campaign as widely as possible by offering this opportunity to other charities.
Will Aid can provide leaflets free of charge for inclusion in supporter mailings
and press releases for inclusion in newsletters and magazines.”

 

www.willaid.org.uk