Tag: Remember A Charity Week

Remember A Charity Week will return this September with a national awareness campaign, new assets and resources for member charities and partners, and a coordinated activation across the charity and professional adviser sectors.  An awareness week with a long legacy Taking place from 7–13 September 2026, the annual awareness week, will once again bring together charities, professional advisers and partners across the UK. The aim is to spark widespread conversations around charitable legacies and the vital role they play in funding charities’ work, encouraging more people to consider leaving a charitable…

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2025’s Remember A Charity Week has started, running from 8-14 September and bringing together charities, professional advisers, campaign partners and celebrities to grow legacy giving by celebrating and raising awareness of the impact of gifts in Wills on charities across the country.  Legacy giving now raises an annual £4.5 billion1 in the UK and is forecast to exceed £10 billion by 2050, providing an essential source of sustainable income for good causes right across the nation.  Remember A Charity works throughout the year to champion legacies, with Remember A Charity…

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Kind-hearted Brits left gifts in Wills to 10,670 different charities last year, the highest number recorded over the past decade, according to research marking the start of Remember A Charity Week. The Smee & Ford data reveals that there were 37,242 charitable estates in 2021, a 10.7% increase on the number reported for 2020. The value of charitable estates increased by nearly £2bn from £17.9bn to £19.8bn, a growth of almost 11%. Gifts in Wills are a critical source of funding for charitable services across the country, raising more than…

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