Let your beliefs live on
The gift of life
Leave a legacy to Tearfund and you enable life to go on even after you’re no longer here. Your will can be a last act of love to those you leave behind. In it, you can provide practically for those most significant in your life and ensure they hear your last words and wishes.
And it mirrors Jesus: allowing new life to come even from death.
Last year, Tearfund received nearly £2 million from wills - it’s about providing for our wider family in Christ, ensuring the money we no longer need is put to good use.
Yet according to a recent survey, 76 per cent of UK 25 to 44-year-olds haven’t made a will.
If you die without a valid will, lawyers will spend a lot of time - and your money - sorting out your affairs. Intestacy laws dictate your money’s course to your spouse and then to their children. Other family, friends and church might not get a look-in. It’s a recipe for heartache, disputes and discord - and probably isn’t how you’d like them to remember you.
‘I made my will when I worked as a legal secretary and realised problems of those who didn’t make wills,’ says Margaret White, 71, from Dundee. ‘I didn’t want to leave things in a mess.’
Colin Crooks, 59, a civil engineer from Cardiff, has written Tearfund into his will. ‘It’s good to know I’m going to be doing something good after I’ve died. I was already a big supporter and I wanted to continue supporting.’