First international legacy giving day in September
Howard Lake | 22 February 2011 | News
An international alliance of charities is planning to hold the first International Legacy Giving Day on 13 September 2011 to raise awareness of the importance of charitable legacies.
Australia’s leading legacy consortium, Include a Charity, Belgium’s Testament, Spain’s Legado Solidario, Ireland’s Legacy Promotion Ireland, Greenpeace Switzerland’s Give Green Canada/Patrimoine Vert will join the UK’s Remember A Charity to mark International Legacy Giving Day. In the UK the day falls within Remember A Charity Week which takes place from 12-18 September.
Charities from around the world will organise activities throughout the day, working with will-writers and corporate partners. The awareness day will be used to promote gifts in wills internally among staff and externally to charity supporters.
Rob Cope, director of Remember A Charity, said: “Many of our most loved good causes would not exist without legacies. This is the first time that hundreds of charities from across the world are coming together to raise awareness of this vital form of giving.”
In the UK, charitable donations in wills create almost £2 billion for good causes each year.
Remember A Charity, part of The Institute of Fundraising, currently works with over 150 member charities nationwide. The new international alliance will also allow the consortium to provide further support to members working overseas, including Save the Children and Christian Aid.
www.rememberacharity.org.uk
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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.