Will Aid and Certainty partnership to continue
Howard Lake | 19 May 2010 | News
The trial partnership in 2009 between Will Aid and the Certainty National Will Register is to continue indefinitely following successful results.
The two organisations joined forces last year to try to encourage people first to write their Will and then register it to make sure it could be found later.
More than 12,000 people visited solicitors and made a Will during last year’s Will Aid Make a Will month, with solicitors waiving their usual fee to raise £1.25 million for the nine charities in the scheme. On average, people donated nearly £100 for every Will written. Over 3,500 of these people registered their Will free with Certainty. Ordinarily, this registration would cost £29.38, including VAT.
Iain McAndrew, Head of Legacies at Save the Children UK and newly-elected Chair of Will Aid said: “Certainty helped encourage the participation of additional solicitors from its large national network of Law Firms to help write Wills for Will Aid… With tens of thousands of intestacies every year caused through lost, presumed never – written or maliciously destroyed Wills it is vital for beneficiaries, including charities to have a safety net.”
The next Will Aid campaign will run in November and Will Aid clients will again be offered the opportunity to make a donation to the Will Aid charities instead of paying the solicitor. The suggested donation is £75 for a single Will and £110 for a pair of Wills. Will Aid clients will once again be able to register their Will free with Certainty.
Will Aid benefits ActionAid, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Age UK, NSPCC, Save the Children UK, Sightsavers, SCIAF (Scotland) and Trocaire (N. Ireland).
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