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Why support CNWL NHS Health Charity with a gift in your Will?

CNWL NHS Health Charity supports one of the UK’s largest mental health and community Trusts – CNWL NHS Foundation Trust.

By leaving a gift in your Will, you are supporting:

Patients 

We enhance patient spaces like relaxation rooms, gyms, gardens and creative therapy projects 

Staff 

We support with staff rest areas and wellbeing moments and activities 

Innovation in communities 

We invest in projects and initiatives that pilot new ideas and innovations

Once you’ve taken care of your loved ones, a gift in your Will could really transform lives.

Getting started

1 - Write a new Will

The simplest way to include CNWL NHS Health Charity is to write a new Will. 

You can write a new Will with a professional advisor. Find a solicitor or Will writer near you with Remember a Charity’s database of over 900 qualified and trusted professionals. 

2 - The other way to leave a gift to CNWL NHS Health Charity is to write a codicil, which is a document used to make changes to an existing Will.

A solicitor or Will writer can help with writing a codicil.

I’d like more information

Should you have any questions, please fill in this form.

You may also find an answer in our FAQs below.

FAQs

Explanation of words used in or about wills

Testator – The person who makes a will.

Executor(s) – The person (s) appointed in the will by the testator to deal with the estate after his/her death.

Bequest – A gift in a will, specific, pecuniary or residuary.

Specific gift – A gift of a specific item. This could be anything from a valuable piece of jewellery or furniture to a residential property.

Pecuniary gift – A gift of a fixed sum of money.

Residuary gift – A gift of a share (or percentage) of the testator’s estate.

Restricted gift – A gift where the testator specifies in the will it must be used for a specific purpose, for example research/education/patient care.

Beneficiaries – The people or charities who benefit under the terms of a will.

Witness – The person who watches the testator sign his/her will. This person must not be a beneficiary in the will, nor be married to a beneficiary in the will.

Codicil – A legal document, signed and witnessed in the same way as a will, that can be used to alter an existing will.

Estate – The assets owned by a deceased person, including property, cash, savings and personal effects.

Usually calculated after any bills, debts and/or expenses relating to the funeral or the will have been considered.

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