Find out how to leave a gift in your will. We will support you in this process and help you to help Quaker work thrive in the future.
Leave a legacy for Quaker work to let your life speak into the future. A legacy gift helps ensure that Quakers in Britain continue to offer a welcoming faith community. Your financial support can help sustain discerned Quaker work and witness for truth, simplicity, peace and equality.
You will probably also want to give something to family and close friends to express your love and care for them, similarly you may have chosen to also give a gift to your local or area meeting. Our legacy information brochure and additional guidelines will give you information on how to best approach writing or updating your will so that you can ensure that the people and Quaker work you care about are provided for. A gift of any size is greatly appreciated, and is a way to work collectively with others and let your life speak into the future.
The following documents are available for download:
Together, we can ensure that Quaker communities thrive and Quaker voices are heard for years to come.
Eva Barton, legacy pledger
“The reasons for leaving the legacies is my sense of gratitude for the existence of Quakers in Britain and for the richness that belonging to a meeting, first Frenchay meeting, now Milton Keynes meeting, has brought to my life."
Jonathan Fox, speaking about the gift to BYM from his late wife Jane
“The legacy gift, although from Jane's estate, is from both of us, a reflection of our shared Quaker background and the richness of our Quaker lives. Our legacy is to help promote Quakerism as a way of life, to ensure Quakers are supported and that the continuing revelation of Quaker faith lives on. Jane and I both felt it was our duty to give a gift in at least one of our wills. We value highly the centrally managed work of BYM on behalf of all Quakers. When we made our wills we had an eye on our future care needs, our 3 children and 6 grandchildren, and we knew we also wanted to make a gift to the Quakers, to the centrally managed work, so that Quakerism could thrive."
John Geale, Settle Local Meeting
"It is important to emphasise what a critical part legacies to BYM play in supporting meetings and funding Quaker work. Here in our local meetings, if we care about society and BYM, we need to be reminded of this! Especially for the years, like last year, where income from the Quiet Company is much reduced, legacy gifts become even more important. So, keep saying 'please remember to write BYM into your will, and from time to time, consider increasing the amount'!"
7 July 2020 by Beth Follini
If you have a question or would like to have an informal conversation about giving a gift in your will, please contact contributions@quaker.org.uk, we'd be very happy to help.
