St Mary Abbots Legacy Policy

At St Mary Abbots, we welcome all gifts in wills, however large or small and we promise to use your gift to make a difference to our parish.
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Our PCC Legacy Policy is to use gifts to help fund significant development projects, whether buildings, equipment or staff. Since 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 the church’s 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 acknowledge gifts in whatever way the donor and/or his/her executors feel most appropriate to. Equally, we can make sure that gifts remain anonymous if the donor prefers.

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 contact our Stewardship Secretary Emma Porteous on 07866 258814 or email 
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​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

A bequest in your will

If you would like to leave something to St Mary Abbots in your will there are two ways to include your gift to the church.   If you already have a will, you can add a codicil, which should be kept with it, and signed and witnessed in the same way as a will.     Alternatively, when your will is being prepared, a small legacy can be incorporated in the document itself.  If this is of interest our Legacy Codicil below can be printed off and used.

Download Our Legacy Codicil Here