Tag: Remember A Charity Week

Remember A Charity Week 2025 launches with focus on the phenomenal impact of legacies

Stuart Mitchell

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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Great Map Of Willanthropy To Launch This Remember A Charity Week (9-15 September 2024)

Stuart Mitchell

This year’s Remember A Charity Week (9-15 September 2024) will see the launch of an interactive map of legacy giving, showcasing the impact of charitable gifts in Wills across the world. The Great Map of Willanthropy* will display a wide range of charitable services and places that have been funded or supported through gifts in Wills, while also showing what future legacies could achieve.   Remember A Charity Week, now in its 15th year, brings together almost 200 member charities, 900 Campaign Supporters (solicitor firms and Will-writers), wealth advisers, and partners…

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An 11% Rise In Gifts In Wills, With Kind-Hearted Brits Giving To The Greatest Number Of Charities In The Past Decade

Stuart Mitchell

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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