Leave a Gift in your Will, set up Legacy & Memorial Funds

Make a lasting impact on your community

Our specialist team can work with you or your loved ones to provide support to the causes that matter to you.

Set Up A Legacy Fund

An everlasting gift to the county and communities of Herefordshire.
Give in perpetuity to the causes you care about by making a single gift that keeps on giving, i.e. an endowment fund.
Work in confidence with our specialist team to fulfil your wishes.
With your solicitor’s advice, write the details of your Legacy Fund into your will, including details of the specific causes and/or geographic areas you wish to support.

Make a positive long-term difference.
Remove burden on family and friends regarding legal & fiscal responsibilities
A brilliant way to invest in the county for future generations.
Avoid the administrative burden of setting up a separate charitable legacy trust/foundation with the Charity Commission.

Leave a gift in your will

Alternatively, you could leave a cash gift to HCF in your will, e.g. cash, shares or assets.
Ensures your gift is spent locally.
It’s easy to include instructions, if desired, on how you wish your gift to be used, such as identifying key causes.

Enables us to keep on helping Herefordshire’s communities.
Ensures it is easy for family and friends to follow your wishes.

To have a fund managed by HCF makes perfect sense to us. Starting a charity from scratch takes a huge amount of work and due diligence which as well as working full time would have its added pressures. This way we can solely focus on raising money and know that it is in the safest possible hands and going to the causes that matter to us as a family
Laura Hughes, George’s Fund

My family created the Charles & Anna Saunders Family Fund of the Herefordshire Community Foundation after I visited the Foundation offices in 2015. I was immediately impressed with the dedication and great intentions of the staff and the Board. My family wanted to contribute to their good work.

I am a former Board member and Board chair of the Austin Community Foundation, and am still involved there on multiple fronts. My family has a fund there and we are passionate believers in the power for good that community foundations represent. After some conversation with HCF we created our family fund there and named it for my Herefordian grandfather and my grandmother.

We have had extraordinarily good experience with Bridie Sullivan and her excellent staff at HCF. They keep us very well informed about our fund and the opportunities for charitable grants in Herefordshire. We are continually adding to the capital of the fund so that we can help the Foundation do all the good it can in Herefordshire. Among our most gratifying grants have been those to provide coaches to take school kids to the Hay Festival.

We are certain that Charles and Anna Saunders, as well as our parents Charles and Betti Saunders, would be thrilled with our fund’s contribution to HCF’s great charitable work. We are very grateful to HCF for all of their help to us and their work to improve and enhance life in Herefordshire.
Stephen Saunders, Austin, Texas

Tax-efficient giving

Charitable gifts and Legacy Funds are free of inheritance tax and reduce the taxable portion of your estate.

Remember someone special with a Memorial Fund

Honour the memory of a loved one in a beautiful, long-lasting way.
Make a difference to a cause that would be close to their heart.
We work at your pace, making arrangements as quickly or slowly as you wish. If needed, we can set up a fund in a matter of days.

Create a positive, personal focus for family and friends.
Decide if you would like to invite donations, we are on hand to advise how to maximise Gift Aid.
Avoid the administrative burden of setting up a separate charitable memorial trust/foundation with the Charity Commission.

Examples of Special Memorial Funds

Our dedicated Memorial Fund pages are an opportunity to remember your loved one, share their story and the personal reasons behind the choice of worthy causes. It’s also the perfect place to post one or two favourite photographs.