Choosing to include London Parks and Gardens in your will is a wonderful way to protect our green capital for future generations to come.
We Need Your Support
London’s historic green spaces are needed more than ever – and yet under increasing threat, as our growing city requires more housing and infrastructure. London Parks and Gardens has spent more than thirty years protecting, recording, opening up and celebrating our heritage with huge success given our small size and limited resources.
Our dedicated volunteers and staff rely on the generosity and forward thinking of people like you. A few pounds help with research. Five hundred pounds could cover the cost of a site survey. A few thousand enables us to produce detailed planning guidance. It takes tens of thousands to challenge planning cases such as Victoria Tower Gardens in court.
We all want to ensure loved ones are taken care of, but please share what you can afford to help us. Every penny you donate is invested in the protection of London’s historic parks and gardens from harmful development to ensure the capital remains a beautiful and livable city for generations to come.
Registered Charity Details Name: London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust Charity Number: 1042337 Address: Duck Island Cottage, St James’s Park, London SW1A 2BJ
A Guide to leaving a Gift in Your Will
Gifts to charities are tax free, so 100% of your gift will go to London Parks and Gardens. There are two different types of gifts which you can leave:
A Residuary Gift – This is a gift of a percentage or part of the value of your estate (e.g. 5%), once all your other commitments have been settled. This is the most flexible way of supporting LPG as the value of the gift adjusts automatically with the value of your estate.
A Pecuniary Gift – This is a gift of a specific sum of money (e.g. £2,000). To ensure that it keeps value over the years, you can ask your solicitor to make it index-linked which means that the gift is adjusted in line with inflation.
Here is a great guide with advice on how to write or update your will to leave a gift to charity: https://www.rememberacharity.org.uk/leaving-a-gift/how-to-leave-a-gift-in-your-will
Get In Touch
If you would like to speak to the director about including London Parks and Gardens in your will or you are the executor of someone’s will, please get in touch via office@londongardenstrust.org .
Consider leaving a gift in your will today to ensure London’s parks and gardens blossom in the future.
