Leaving a legacy
Once you have made provision for your loved ones in your Will, you might consider leaving a legacy to the church.
A gift in your Will to your church means your continued support for its mission and ministry within your community. It is an expression of your gratitude and thanksgiving towards God and can help keep your church alive and help transform its future.
We welcome all gifts in Wills, however large or small, and we promise to use your gift to make a difference in our parish. Our PCC legacy policy is to use gifts to help fund significant development projects, whether buildings, equipment, or staff.
Since our needs change over the years, we encourage you to leave a gift in your Will for the general purposes of the parish rather than for a restricted purpose. We will discuss possible uses of your gift with your executors when the time comes, bearing in mind your known areas of interest in the church (e.g. music, buildings, children and youth, overseas mission or aid) and church priorities at the time. You can be confident that your gift will be used to make a real difference to our future mission and ministry.
We will acknowledge gifts in whatever way the donor and/or his/her executors feel most appropriate. For Holt St Andrew, our usual procedure is that all gifts are publicly recorded in the Holt St Andrew Church Book of Gifts. We can make sure that gifts remain anonymous if preferred.
If you would like to talk to someone in confidence about the sorts of purposes your gift might fund, and how (if) you would like your gift to be acknowledged, please get in touch. If you would like to make a gift to our church in memoriam, please come and discuss this with us too. It can be a wonderful and appropriate way to remember a loved one.
“Without the generosity of members of our congregation who leave legacies in their Wills, we would not have the new extension or the audio/video equipment to live stream on YouTube. We are eternally grateful for their generosity.” Fr Howard Stoker, Rector
To find out more about this scheme please visit: www.churchlegacy.org.uk
