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20/10/2009
City donations show benefit to charity of wills |
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Cancer Research UK has had donations totalling £2.4 million from the deceased of a single city, it has been revealed.
Cardiff residents alone donated that figure through bequeathed amounts, the South Wales Echo reports.
Legacy fundraising manager at the charity Nick Georgiadis was quoted by the paper as saying: "Without the income we receive from legacies each year, we would not be able to continue all our world-class research into the causes and treatments of all forms of cancer."
Such a figure could be multiplied many times by Londoners, given its larger population, provided those who can make a will and want to give to charity ensure this happens by seeing a lawyer skilled in will drafting to put such provisions in place.
Another example of how such funding can make a difference is a £700,000 sports hall for people with learning and behavioral difficulties in Wokingham, Berkshire, which was paid for partly with money donated in wills, the BBC reported last month.
Written by Anthony Dyson
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