Make your mark
Leaving a legacy in your Will to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Your generosity will have a valuable and lasting impact on the development of the museum, helping it to meet the needs of the local community and new audiences far and wide. We are grateful for every gift, no matter what size.
Have you the will to help?
Once you have decided you want to leave a legacy you need to decide how you wish to leave your gift. There are several options:
Residuary bequest
Leaving a share of what you own. This means you leave a percentage of your Estate after provision for your loved ones and all your other gifts and debts have been paid.
It is easy to add this into an existing Will without interfering with any specific sums you have put into place for family and friends. It also has the advantage that the value will not be eroded by inflation over the years.
Pecuniary bequest
Leaving a fixed sum of money. You decide on a specific sum of money that you would like to leave to the museum.
The value of pecuniary legacies will decrease in time as the cost of living increases.
Specific bequest
Leaving a property, an item of value or shares. You may have a valuable item in mind that you’d like to give.
It is important that you know that we might not be able to keep that item or any shares without prior agreement. We will need either your consent or the consent of your Executors to sell any items you leave to us, and use the money raised for our work.
Contingent bequest
A gift in your Will that depends upon the occurrence of an event which may not happen is known legally as a contingent bequest.
An example is a bequest to a charity which applies only if other beneficiaries named in the Will die before the testator (person who made the Will).
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