Legacy giving
leaving a gift in your will
By leaving a legacy gift to the Lettering Arts Trust, you can help us continue to safeguard the heritage art of hand carved and designed lettering for future generations.
We use our legacy funds to provide a portfolio of much-needed training opportunities. These ensure that the hard-won skills of letter carvers, handed down through the generations, will not die out when the current practitioners retire. To date, we have trained ten apprentices, seven Journeymen and have had scores of students through our workshops.
How to leave a legacy
You can support the work of the Lettering Arts Trust in the following ways
Leave a gift in your Will
to the Lettering Arts Trust, charity number 1148638.
If you already have a Will and wish to add a gift for the benefit of the Lettering Arts Trust, you can do so by making a codicil (amendment) to your Will. In every case, we strongly recommend that you consult a solicitor when making or updating your Will, to ensure that it is legally valid and reflects your intentions.
You can find a solicitor on the Law Society website: www.lawsociety.org.uk/find-a-solicitor/
Types of Legacy
There are three main types of legacy which you can leave to our charity.
A cash legacy – this is a gift of a sum of money
A specific legacy – this is a gift of an item or items such as jewellery, shares, a painting or a property
A residuary gift – your “residuary estate” is what remains of your assets after your debts and other expenses, such as funeral costs, tax etc., have been deducted and after your cash and specific legacies have been paid. A residuary gift is a legacy of the whole or a share of your residuary estate.
with a specific request
If you want to, you can leave a specific legacy to our charity.
The funds to go towards any one of our particular projects, or towards core funding for the charity to support our everyday costs. Some of the projects you may wish to support are:
Our Apprenticeship scheme
The Journeyman scheme
The Harriet Frazer bursary
TOUCH workshops for blind children
New work to be commissioned for The Art & Memory Collection
Lettering workshops for schools
“The tradition of letter carving on these islands stretches back centuries and the patient artist-craftsmen are still among us, serving the human need to mark a life, leave a trace and define a beloved memory.”
Post Note: If you make a request or express a wish that we use your legacy for a particular project, we would not be obliged to use your legacy for that project, but we would do all we could to do so. Please speak to us first if you want to leave a legacy for a particular project only. We'd be delighted to provide more details on all our projects and on what core funding would mean to us.