Matthew Roberts
Leave a Gift in your Will
Your lasting legacy for wildlife.
Pass on everything you love about Radnorshire's wildlife
Wild places are special to us. We want to ensure that our children and grandchildren will always be able to enjoy splashing in sparkling streams, chasing butterflies across wildflower meadows, and the sound of a cuckoo.
Make a difference
Over the 35 years or so since the Trust’s foundation, RWT has been the grateful recipient of over fifty legacies. Each one has made a great contribution to the growth and sustainability of the Trust. Leaving a gift in your Will to Radnorshire Wildlife Trust will help us carry on protecting wildlife for all to enjoy in the future.
We are an independent charity and have to find our own funding, so being left a gift in a Will is really important to us. Our very survival depends on it. Thank you for considering leaving a lasting legacy for wildlife.
Stories from behind the gifts
Joan's legacy for wildlife
Joan Payne and her husband Clive bought the beautiful Fronwen Wood while Joan was the Trust’s chair. They, their family and friends spent many happy days there, enhancing the conservation value of the wood by careful, limited management, benefiting the fine collection of well-established oak and ash. Joan’s wish was that Fronwen would continue to be managed with the same object: she and Clive felt that this could best be achieved by leaving the wood to the Trust, together with a cash fund to support its management. Knowing that her condition was incurable and Clive having decided that he would leave the area, the gift was actually just made in Joan’s lifetime, so she, totally modest as she was, witnessed the transfer to the Trust. Fronwen will always serve as a reminder of Joan’s dedication to the Trust.
Margaret's legacy for wildlife
Many members will know that the full name of our reserve at Tylcau Hill is the Flossie Brand Tylcau Hill Reserve. Flossie, strictly Margaret Brand, was a close neighbour to the Trust’s offices at Warwick House: although never a member, she was familiar to many of the Trust’s staff as a quiet neighbour but no one ever imagined that she would leave a 25% interest in her estate to the Trust, and moreover that her estate would be so substantial, probably much larger and more complicated than she knew herself, due to her being the final beneficiary of a family trust set up in Victorian times. Over fifteen years after her death, one aspect of this large legacy is still being administered but in the intervening years, the legacy has formed the basis of the Trust’s investment portfolio as well as funding the purchase of Tylcau Hill.
We're here to help
Leaving a gift in your Will to Radnorshire Wildlife Trust is a very personal and important decision and we are here to help. If you are considering leaving a legacy would like to speak to someone, please email rebecca@rwtwales.org or call 01597 823298. We will be more than happy to help.
If you have remembered Radnorshire Wildlife Trust in your Will, we’d love to hear from you. Not only will this help us make plans for the future of the Trust, it also means we can thank you properly for your support. Anything you tell us will be confidential and not legally binding.
Keeping your Will up-to-date is a good idea
Having an up-to-date Will is the only way to ensure that you look after the people and causes that are important to you. Whilst you may already have a Will in place, the government recommends that your Will is reviewed for updates at least every five years. Naturally, when thinking about your Will, you’ll want to make sure your loved ones come first. Then you may want to think about leaving a proportion to those charities close to your heart.
Leaving a gift is easy
If you'd like to leave a gift in your Will to Radnorshire Wildlife Trust all you need is the following information:
Name: Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
Address: Warwick House, High Street, Llandrindod Wells, Powys, LD1 6AG
Registered charity number: 519021
As the years go by, people will go to the Trust’s reserves and thank those who have made it possible for the Trust to purchase and maintain such terrific places. They are unlikely to know what contribution, if any, my particular legacy may have made to that nature reserve but I’ll smile down from that celestial place and say to myself ‘that’s my legacy’ - a continuing one
Make a Will for wildlife
Radnorshire Wildlife Trust has partnered with expert Will-writers, Octopus Legacy, to offer you the opportunity to write and amend a Will online for free. Friendly and compassionate, the Octopus Legacy team is on hand to answer any questions you may have and provide a simple service where each Will is checked over by a legal expert. This service is absolutely safe and secure, with no obligation, though we do ask that you consider including Radnorshire Wildlife Trust.
Octopus Legacy also offers telephone and face to face Will writing services for those that would rather speak to a solicitor. To find out more and to book an appointment simply call the team on 0800 773 4014 and quote Radnorshire Wildlife Trust.
What a legacy could help us do
✓ Continue supporting the recovery of some of our rarest species
✓ Care for our nature reserves and help others manage their land for wildlife
✓ Inspire young people about the natural world through our education activities
✓ Stand up for wildlife across planning and policy
✓ Support our work across the county to create a Living Landscape
We appreciate every single gift, however big or small
You don't have to be wealthy to leave a gift in your Will. You can be confident that your legacy, big or small, will make a real difference and will be put to good use meeting the most urgent conservation needs.
If you would like to leave a gift in your Will to Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, and have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch via: rebecca@rwtwales.org
Sir David Attenborough
"Anyone who cares about wildlife has a marvellous opportunity to do something quite unique, by remembering their local Wildlife Trust in their Will.
This generous act is one of the most important things you can do to make sure the species and habitats we love will be there for future generations to enjoy."