Are you one of the 6 out of 10 people who has not made a will, or you made it several years ago and your circumstances have changed?
For nearly 500 years the Church of England has encouraged people to make a will. Without a will, your loved ones could face a lot of trouble, work and expense after your death. Without a will, a court could decide how to distribute your goods and who should look after your children or dependents. Legacies are an important way in which you can support charitable causes. Making a charitable gift in your will may also reduce the rate of
inheritance tax paid on the rest of your estate.
At St Mildred’s we welcome all gifts in wills, however large or small, and we promise to use your gift to make a difference in our parish.
Our PCC Legacy Policy is to use gifts to help fund significant development projects, whether buildings, equipment, mission or staff. This includes paying off loans incurred to facilitate the construction of our new church hall, which will free up regular income.
Since needs change over the years, we encourage you to leave a gift in your will for the general purposes of the parish rather than for a restricted purpose. We will discuss possible uses of your gift with your executors when the time comes, bearing in mind your known areas of interest in the church (e.g. music, buildings, children and youth, overseas mission or aid) and the church’s priorities at the time. We will also aim to take into account any wishes
you have expressed to us in advance.
You can be confident that your gift will be used to make a real difference to our future mission and ministry.
We will acknowledge gifts in whatever way the donor and/or their executors feel most appropriate so long as it fits with the requirements mandated in our fundraising policy. Equally, we can make sure that gifts remain anonymous if the donor prefers.
If you would like to talk to someone in confidence about the sorts of purposes your gift might fund, and how/if you would like your gift to be acknowledged, please contact our treasurer, Trevor Gill (email [email protected]). If you would like to record your preferences for use and or acknowledgement of a legacy, please email them to [email protected] and they will be kept in confidence until needed.
In keeping with our practice for all donations, the PCC will normally tithe 10% of any legacy received to an appropriate cause, unless otherwise directed.
As we are a registered charity, legacies to the church count towards the inheritance tax reduction for gifts to charity. (1)
There is a lot of helpful information about leaving a legacy to our church on churchlegacy.org.uk
If you would like to make a gift in memory of a loved one, please do come and discuss this with us too.
(1) https://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity/leaving-gifts-to-charity-in-your-will
For nearly 500 years the Church of England has encouraged people to make a will. Without a will, your loved ones could face a lot of trouble, work and expense after your death. Without a will, a court could decide how to distribute your goods and who should look after your children or dependents. Legacies are an important way in which you can support charitable causes. Making a charitable gift in your will may also reduce the rate of
inheritance tax paid on the rest of your estate.
At St Mildred’s we welcome all gifts in wills, however large or small, and we promise to use your gift to make a difference in our parish.
Our PCC Legacy Policy is to use gifts to help fund significant development projects, whether buildings, equipment, mission or staff. This includes paying off loans incurred to facilitate the construction of our new church hall, which will free up regular income.
Since needs change over the years, we encourage you to leave a gift in your will for the general purposes of the parish rather than for a restricted purpose. We will discuss possible uses of your gift with your executors when the time comes, bearing in mind your known areas of interest in the church (e.g. music, buildings, children and youth, overseas mission or aid) and the church’s priorities at the time. We will also aim to take into account any wishes
you have expressed to us in advance.
You can be confident that your gift will be used to make a real difference to our future mission and ministry.
We will acknowledge gifts in whatever way the donor and/or their executors feel most appropriate so long as it fits with the requirements mandated in our fundraising policy. Equally, we can make sure that gifts remain anonymous if the donor prefers.
If you would like to talk to someone in confidence about the sorts of purposes your gift might fund, and how/if you would like your gift to be acknowledged, please contact our treasurer, Trevor Gill (email [email protected]). If you would like to record your preferences for use and or acknowledgement of a legacy, please email them to [email protected] and they will be kept in confidence until needed.
In keeping with our practice for all donations, the PCC will normally tithe 10% of any legacy received to an appropriate cause, unless otherwise directed.
As we are a registered charity, legacies to the church count towards the inheritance tax reduction for gifts to charity. (1)
There is a lot of helpful information about leaving a legacy to our church on churchlegacy.org.uk
If you would like to make a gift in memory of a loved one, please do come and discuss this with us too.
(1) https://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity/leaving-gifts-to-charity-in-your-will
