# First international legacy giving day in September

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/02/22/first-international-legacy-giving-day-september/
- Published: 2011-02-22T06:10:11+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/(www.includeacharity.com.au),
Belgium’s [Testament](http://www.testament.be), Spain’s [Legado Solidario](http://www.legadosolidario.org),
Ireland’s [Legacy Promotion Ireland](http://www.mylegacy.ie), Greenpeace Switzerland’s
[Give Green Canada](http://www.myhappyend.org'>MyHappyEnd</a>, Canada’s Leave-a-Legacy™ awareness campaign and <a href=)/
[Patrimoine Vert](http://www.patrimoinevert.ca) 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.

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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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