# UK's largest cross charity campaign promotes leaving a legacy

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/09/12/uk039s-largest-cross-charity-campaign-promotes-leaving-legacy/
- Published: 2011-09-12T13:54:42+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Over 140 charities are promoting the third annual Remember A Charity Week, which
runs from 12 to 18 September, to encourage people to leave gifts to charity in their
wills.

Remember A Charity Week is the UK’s largest cross charity campaign and is being 
supported by celebrities including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Michael Parkinson, Fern 
Britton and Richard Wilson.

Legendary British stuntman Rocky Taylor will attempt to break a Guinness World Record
by jumping a spinning BMW at speed through the largest sheet of breakaway glass 
ever smashed by a car at the O2 Arena, London. The stunt will be broadcast live 
on Remember A Charity’s Facebook page. “Nobody knows the importance of writing a
will more than a stuntman who puts their life on the line every day”, says Remember
A Charity Week director Rob Cope.

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The world record attempt follows on from Rocky’s stunt for the campaign in August
where he successfully recreated a stunt from the film Death Wish 3 in 1985 that 
nearly put an end to his career.

Charitable donations in wills raise nearly £2 billion each year, “the equivalent
of over 20 Comic Reliefs” according to the campaign organisers. The potential to
raise more is considerable: although 74% of people regularly support a charity in
their lifetime only 7% of those who have written a will include a gift to charity.

Remember A Charity week will this year also have a noticeable high street presence,
with hundreds of charity shops, including Age UK, Barnardo’s, British Heart Foundation
and Cancer Research UK supporting the week through window displays.

Celebrity supporters of member charities will put their names to an open letter 
to newspapers across the country, encouraging more people to leave gifts to charity
in their wills.

www.rememberacharity.org.uk

 * **[First International Legacy Giving Day marked](https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/09/13/first-international-legacy-giving-day-marked/)**(
   13 September 2011)
 * **[Rocky Taylor breaks a Guinness World record for Remember a Charity](https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/09/16/rocky-taylor-breaks-guinness-world-record-remember-charity/)**(
   16 September 2011)
 * **[NSPCC's Alex McDowell to be new Chair of Remember A Charity](https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/07/12/nspcc039s-alex-mcdowell-be-new-chair-remember-charity/)**(
   12 July 2012)