Legacies / planned giving

The Institute of Fundraising has redeveloped its tax-effective giving microsite, with content for charities, fundraisers and donors.

If Roger Federer wins Wimbledon this month then Oxfam will win £100,000 from a bet placed by a man who left his estate to the charity.

The trial partnership in 2009 between Will Aid and the Certainty National Will Register is to continue indefinitely following successful results.

This year 3,347 Payroll Giving Quality Mark Award certificates have been distributed by the Institute of Fundraising to recognise employers' commitment to payroll giving.

The NSPCC today launches a TV and digital advertising campaign to ask people to consider leaving the charity a gift in their will.

Disability charity Livability has appointed direct-to-digital marketing agency TDA to devise and implement a legacy fundraising strategy.

Jane Banks, Payroll Giving Manager at British Heart Foundation, and Karen Thomson, Associate Director of Policy, Research and Strategic Visibility at the Institute of Payroll Professionals (IPP) have

Give Green Canada is a new resource to promote tax-effective giving to environmental and conservation organisations in Canada.

The Community Foundation Network (CFN) reports that the number of individual donors setting up charitable funds to support local groups rose by a 60% in 2009, the largest increase in a year to date.