Let us hope that heritage charities benefit from the Legacy10 initiative launched late last year. Legacy10 is an independent campaign to encourage charitable giving. Specifically, it is aimed at increasing the number of people in the UK who leave money to charity in their wills. It is run a by a committee covering business, culture and the wider charitable sector
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Legacy10 asks individuals to pledge 10 per cent of their estate to charity, after the government announced a cut in the rate of inheritance tax from 40 to 36 per cent for those that do so.
As with most small charities, The Mills Archive Trust needs support from legacies We have already had a number of promises and have published an attractive brochure which can be seen in the related article below: