Leaving a gift in your Will doesn’t have to be difficult or time-consuming. We recommend you speak to a solicitor or a professional Will-writing service to assist you and help with the exact wording to ensure your gift is legally valid. There are two main ways that you can leave a gift in your Will, by either leaving a share of your estate or a set monetary amount.
When thinking about leaving a gift in your Will, you’ll often see the word ‘estate’ used. This simply means anything that is legally your possession, from property, to bank accounts, to vehicles.
We are so incredibly grateful to anybody who chooses our charity to leave a gift to. It is a true honour for us to be a part of anybody’s legacy.
If you would like to, you can let us know that you are leaving a gift to us in your Will. This is completely optional, but we’d love to know so we can thank you. To do so, please fill in the form at the bottom of this page.
Leaving a gift to My Mito Mission will help us to continue providing vital support to those impacted by mitochondrial disease, as well as funding mitochondrial research that could help everyone, and powering awareness of mito. Thank you.
Most supporters who choose to leave a gift in their Will decide to give what’s called a ‘residuary gift’. This means leaving a percentage of your remaining assets after your loved ones and financial commitments have been looked after.
You can decide to leave a share to many charities or gift the entire residue to one. You can also leave different percentages to different causes. This type of gift has the advantage of keeping up with inflation and ensuring that the value of your gift is not diminished over time. Example residuary wording:
“I give to My Mito Mission a charity (Registered in England and Wales, Charity Reg No. 1212268) of registered office address C/O K T Hydraulics, Gannex Mills, Gannex Park, Dewsbury Road, Elland HX5 9AF the whole of the residue/% share of the residue of my estate to be applied for its general charitable purposes and I declare that the receipt of the charity’s authorised person or other appropriate officer shall be a complete discharge to my executors.”
Alternatively, you can leave a specified sum of money to My Mito Mission, or what’s often called a ‘pecuniary gift’. Though it is a good idea to review this kind of gift every so often as inflation can gradually reduce its value. Example pecuniary wording:
“I give to My Mito Mission a charity (Registered in England and Wales, Charity Reg No. 1212268) of registered office address C/O K T Hydraulics, Gannex Mills, Gannex Park, Dewsbury Road, Elland HX5 9AF the sum of _ pounds to be applied for its general charitable purposes and I declare that the receipt of the charity’s authorised person or other appropriate officer shall be a complete discharge to my executors.”
It would also be of great help to us if you could include the following clause in your Will, which will ensure that your gift will still be effective if My Mito Mission merges with another charity or changes its name in the future:
“If at my death any charity named as a beneficiary in this Will or any Codicil hereto has changed its name or amalgamated with or transferred its assets to another body then my executors shall give effect to any gift made to such charity as if it had been made (in the first case) to the body in its changed name or (in the second place) to the body which results from such amalgamation or to which such transfer has been made.”
If you already have a Will but would like to amend it to include My Mito Mission, you can ask your solicitor or Will-writer for a ‘Codicil’. This is a short document you can use to make a small change to your Will (like adding a gift) without having to re-write the whole document.
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