Gifts in Wills: the options
You can leave money to family and friends, alongside a gift to charity, in the same Will.
Remembering Footsteps Foundation in your Will is an excellent way to support our work with neurologically impaired children. Because charitable legacies are exempt from Inheritance Tax, all of your gift will go to helping to the young people who come to the Footsteps Centre.
There are several ways to leave a gift in your Will. The first two listed below are the most common ways:
- Residuary gift: this is the remainder or a percentage of your estate after all other gifts and expenses have been deducted. This ensures that your family and loved ones are remembered first and what is left over can then be donated to charity.
- Pecuniary gift: this is a gift of a specific amount of money. You might suggest to your solicitor or Will-writer that your cash gift is index-linked to ensure that its value increases with inflation.
- Specific gift: this is the gift of a specific item such as property, jewellery or other valuables.
Leaving money to Footsteps Foundation in your Will is a highly personal and special gift. It is entirely up to you whether or not to inform us of any gift, however, it would be wonderful to know about your gift. Not least, it will enable us to thank you, and to keep you in touch with our work, which we would very much like to do.
Please be assured that in the interests of using our valuable funds carefully, we will not begin contacting you unnecessarily and you can always tell us how you would prefer to be contacted by writing to us.
If you would like to tell us about this gift, please complete our legacy form.
Thank you for considering making a gift to Footsteps Foundation in your Will.