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  • Charity sector must prioritise legacy fundraising for future growth

    Charity Choice

    19.11.2020

    Charity sector must prioritise legacy fundraising for future growth

    Charity Choice

    19.11.2020

    A recent report co-authored by Smee & Ford, Remember A Charity, the Institute of Legacy Managementand Legacy Foresight, explores how vital legacy income has been in 2020 and emphasises how charities must collaborate to grow and normalise legacy giving.

    Legacy giving shapes the world around us and this has been more evident during the coronavirus outbreak than ever before. While many fundraising channels and activities ceased, gifts in Wills – the largest source of voluntary income – sustained vital charitable services across the UK.

    The recent report, Strengthening Charities’ Resilience with Legacies, features views from 12 leading legacy experts and findings from a survey of over 120 charity representatives. It looks at the shape of the sector now and possibilities for the future, including recommendations on how charities should prepare their legacy fundraising strategies for more uncertainty as well as potential sector growth.

    Future uncertainty makes legacies vital

    “Legacies really did enable us to weather the storm. Because we knew roughly what legacy income is coming our way and because that income is such a large part of our funding base, we felt confident that – even if legacy values dipped a little – the money would still make it through. That pipeline has kept us going. It meant that we could plan. It gave us the ability to manage cashflow and some certainty at a time of uncertainty.”
    Jayne George, Director of Fundraising, Marketing & Media, RNLI

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  • Charities urged to act now to benefit from market growth

    Today’s Wills and Probate

    16.11.2020

    Charities urged to act now to benefit from market growth

    Today’s Wills and Probate

    16.11.2020

    A predicted legacy boom worth up to £40 billion over the next decade[1] presents charities with a unique window of time to act and benefit from market growth, according to a new joint report produced by ILM, Remember A Charity, Legacy Foresight and Smee & Ford.

    Expectations are that the substantial uplift in demand for Will-writing coupled with the scale of inheritance anticipated from the baby boomer generation has created an exceptional opportunity for longer-term legacy growth. But the report also conveys a sense of urgency; a limited timeframe in which charities can act to benefit from this growth, emphasising the need for charities to continue to communicate the importance of legacies both within and beyond their supporter base.

    With over 10,000 charities named in Wills each year[2], the legacy market is an increasingly competitive space, making it all the more important for fundraisers to focus not only on market share, but on working together to grow the market and inspire future generations to leave a gift in their Will.

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  • UK charities urged to seize unique opportunity to benefit from £40bn predicted legacy boom

    European Fundraising Association

    16.11.2020

    UK charities urged to seize unique opportunity to benefit from £40bn predicted legacy boom

    European Fundraising Association

    16.11.2020

    The UK faces a predicted legacy boom worth up to £40 billion over the next decade, presenting charities with a unique window of time to act and benefit from market growth, according to a joint report by Remember A Charity, Legacy Foresight, the Institute of Legacy Management and Smee & Ford.

    The report indicates that a substantial uplift in demand for Will-writing coupled with the scale of inheritance anticipated from the baby boomer generation has created an exceptional opportunity for longer-term legacy growth. However, it also conveys a sense of urgency, pointing to a limited timeframe in which charities can act to benefit from this growth, and emphasising therefore the need for charities to continue to communicate the importance of legacies both within and beyond their supporter base.

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  • Legacies to generate £40bn for charities over the next decade

    Civil Society

    12.11.2020

    Legacies to generate £40bn for charities over the next decade

    Civil Society

    12.11.2020

    Earlier this week, a group of organisations in the charity legacy sector including ILM and Remember A Charity released a report on the future of legacies, Strengthening charities’ resilience with legacies. Projections by Legacy Foresight included in the report estimate that cumulative legacy income for charities will amount to £40bn over the next decade. –

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  • Window of opportunity for charities to benefit from £40bn predicted legacy upsurge

    UK Fundraising

    11.11.2020

    Window of opportunity for charities to benefit from £40bn predicted legacy upsurge

    UK Fundraising

    11.11.2020

    A predicted upsurge in legacies worth up to £40 billion over the next decade presents charities with a unique window of time to act and benefit from market growth, according to a joint report by Remember A Charity, Legacy Foresight, the Institute of Legacy Management and Smee & Ford.

    Figures from Legacy Foresight predict that, as well as a substantial increase in legacy donations in the next ten years, legacy income will double in real terms over the next 30 years, with it being the volume of donations that will be critical in driving future market growth.

    But, while an uplift in demand for Will-writing coupled with the scale of inheritance anticipated from the baby boomer generation has created this opportunity for longer-term legacy growth, the report, Strengthening Charities’ Resilience with Legacies, also highlights a limited timeframe in which charities can act to benefit from this growth. This, it says, means there is a real need for charities to continue to communicate the importance of legacies both within and beyond their supporter base.

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  • Charities can unlock £40bn legacy income boom

    Third Force News

    11.11.2020

    Charities can unlock £40bn legacy income boom

    Third Force News

    11.11.2020

    A new report says organisations have a limited amount of time to access increased funds 

    A predicted legacy boom worth up to £40 billion over the next decade presents charities with a unique window of time to act and benefit from market growth. 

    This is according to a new joint report released this week by Remember A Charity, Legacy Foresight, the Institute of Legacy Management and Smee & Ford.

    Expectations are that the substantial uplift in demand for will-writing coupled with the scale of inheritance anticipated from the baby boomer generation has created an exceptional opportunity for longer-term legacy growth. 

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  • Report urges charities to make the most of an expected £40bn legacy boom

    Third Sector

    10.11.2020

    Report urges charities to make the most of an expected £40bn legacy boom

    Third Sector

    10.11.2020

    The Strengthening Charities’ Resilience with Legacies report, which was co-authored by four major charity legacy organisations, predicts an escalation in the value of gifts from wills over the next decade, and that charities’ legacy income will double in real terms over the next 30 years.

    The report – produced by Remember A Charity, Legacy Foresight, the Institute of Legacy Management and the legacy information company Smee & Ford – features insights from 12 legacy experts and findings from a survey of more than 120 charity sector representatives.

    It explores how gifts in wills, which have raised an estimated £3.1bn this year, have provided greater resilience and stability during the pandemic, and advises charities how they can strengthen their legacy fundraising programmes during times of uncertainty.

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  • Covid-19: Charities urged to do more to address ‘memorial deprivation’ among donors

    Charity Times

    22.10.2020

    Covid-19: Charities urged to do more to address ‘memorial deprivation’ among donors

    Charity Times

    22.10.2020

    Charities are being urged to do more to help bereaved donors who are suffering “memorial deprivation” due to Covid-19 restrictions at funerals.

    Funeral collections account for half of all donations made in the memory of a loved one.

    But social distancing and lockdown has stopped many attending funerals and making a donation.

    Research group Legacy Foresight says currently charities are failing to take into account the challenges supporters are facing around attending funerals

    It urges charities to do more to support the public around Covid-19’s “catastrophic impact on UK funerals” and in memory giving.

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