Legacies & wills

Legacy giving is really important to St Wilfrid’s. After you have remembered those you love and you decide to leave a gift in your will to support the work of St Wilfrid’s, ensure that any gift you make is secure, so please include the following information in your will:

Our correct legal name: St Wilfrid’s Hospice (Eastbourne)
Our address: 1 Broadwater Way, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN22 9PZ
Our registered charity number: 283686

We recommend you use a solicitor or qualified will writer, who will be able to include this information alongside the type and amount of your bequest to us. While St Wilfrid's Hospice does not recommend a particular firm, we do recommend that you contact a professional adviser to write your will.This ensures not only that your estate is distributed as you would wish, but also that you have minimised your taxable contribution, leaving more for those you care about and good causes.

A donation to St Wilfrid’s in your will is a great way to leave something behind to help secure our future. Whether you can afford to give a little or a lot, your donation will help us to keep on giving life-changing hospice care to people in our catchment area. It’s likely to be the biggest gift you can make to us, but it doesn’t cost you anything now.

Type of gifts:

• A gift of an object or contents of a property
• A gift of a specific sum of money (this is also known as a pecuniary legacy)
• Leaving a share of the rest of your estate once you have remembered the needs of those you have loved and supported you in your lifetime (also known as a residual legacy)

Every September we run Make a Will Month, which offers free services of a local solicitor to write or amend your will. There is a large group of solicitors offering their services free in return for writing your will and they only ask you to make a donation to St Wilfrid’s for the service or leave us a gift in your will.

Find out more about Make a Will month here: Make a Will Month

Alernatively, you can make a free online will

We work with Make a Will Online. They make solicitor-checked wills for our supporters. You can use this link: www.makeawillonline.co.uk/stwilfridshospice.

If you use this service, we find out when you leave a gift to us in your will. You can also choose to share your name with us which will help us greatly. Every will is checked by a qualified solicitor and you can contact the helpline at no extra cost.

If you have complex legal needs, or a large or complicated estate – e.g. trust income, property overseas, or dependent relatives – you should speak to a specialist solicitor. If you are on strong medication or have concerns around your mental capacity you should discuss with a solicitor face-to-face. If your estate will be subject to inheritance tax (see here), you should also speak to a solicitor.

You can find a solicitor by going to the Law Society website.

Our full charity details are: St Wilfrid's Hospice (Eastbourne). Charity number 283686. Our registered office is at St. Wilfrids Hospice Ltd, 1 Broadwater Way, Eastbourne BN22 9PZ.

Leaving a charitable legacy in your will to St Wilfrid’s not only provides personal comfort, but it supports everything the hospice does. Gifts in wills come in all sizes, but whatever the amount, each gift will make a very real, positive difference to the lives of patients and their families.We recently received a legacy gift of £50,820, which we used to care for people in many ways.

This £50,820 gift supported:

• One day’s care for the entire Inpatient Unit.
• Our bereavement services.
• Our services for one week in Wellbeing.
• 100 hours of vital physiotherapy care for our patients.
• A week of support from our Hospice at Home team, who travel across our entire catchment area and care for patients in their own homes.

Thank you for choosing to leave a gift to St wilfrid's in your Will.

If you are happy to let us know about the gift then please complete this form. This helps us to keep you updated on the work of the hospice, and to plan for our future.

If you would prefer not to let us know then there is nothing else you need to do.