First International Legacy Giving Day marked

Howard Lake | 13 September 2011 | News

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Charities in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Spain, Ireland and Switzerland are joining those in the UK today to mark the first International Legacy Giving Day. All are working together to raise awareness of charitable legacies when writing a will.

International Legacy Giving Day takes place during the UK’s Remember A Charity Week.

It has been established by some of the charity legacy consortiums, namely Australia’s Include a Charity, Belgium’s Testament, Spain’s Legado Solidario, Ireland’s Legacy Promotion Ireland, Switzerland’s MyHappyEnd, Norway’s Soria Moria, Canada’s Leave-a-Legacy™ awareness campaign and Give Green Canada/Patrimoine Vert , and the UK’s Remember A Charity.

Activities around the world are taking place with will-writers and corporate partners, and gifts in wills are being promoted internally to charity staff as well as externally to charity supporters.

At its launch in February 2011, 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.”

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About Howard Lake
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.