Leaving a Legacy
Leaving a Legacy
The River & Rowing Museum Foundation is very fortunate that many of its supporters choose to sustain the Museum by remembering us in their Wills.
By leaving a legacy to the Museum you will be helping to safeguard our collection for future generations. Legacies can be given to support specific areas of the Museum's work like education, conservation of the collection, or in support of our endowment thereby giving a gift that keeps on giving and securing the River & Rowing Museum Foundation's long-term future. However you wish to make your legacy pledge it can be a unique memorial to a personal involvement in the Museum.
Legacies can be given as cash, shares or property donations and your solicitor can advise you on writing your Will. Legacies left to the River & Rowing Museum Foundation are not liable for inheritance tax as the Museum is a registered charity (no. 1001051).
If you have previously made a Will, you may want to ask your solicitor to add a Codicil to include a legacy to the River & Rowing Museum Foundation. If you do not have a Will, you should see a solicitor for the same purpose. Do let us know if you have any problems with this, as we could give you the names of some local independent firms who deal with this kind of work. The legacy in your Will or Codicil should contain the following or very similar wording:
"I give to the River & Rowing Museum Foundation of Mill Meadows, Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 1BF (Registered Charity No. 1001051) the sum of £__.__ for its general charitable purposes and I declare that the receipt of the Treasurer of the time being of the Museum shall be a good and sufficient discharge to my Executors."
If you would like to use the gift for a particular purpose, then you could add:
"And I express the wish (but without imposing any trust to this effect) that the aforesaid gift shall if possible be used for the purposes of ...."
It is usually more helpful to us not to have particular wishes or restrictions attached to bequests make to the Museum, but if you do include such a request, we will endeavour to follow your instructions as far as we possibly can.
If you have already included a legacy to the Museum in your Will, please accept our heartfelt thanks, it is a wonderful gift to our work. We know that your decision to include such a legacy is a very private one, but if you would like to discuss your intentions and wishes with us, we should be delighted to do so. Any information you provide is not legally binding and will be kept in our strictest confidence.
For further information, please contact:
Mrs Kim Price ACA, Director of Finance, River & Rowing Museum Foundation, Mill Meadows, Henley on Thames, RG9 1BF. Telephone: 01491 415617 or email kim.price@rrm.co.uk