St Catherine's Hospice

MAKE A WILL FORTNIGHT Make or update your Will whilst supporting St Catherine’s Hospice

Has making or updating your will been on your to-do list? If you don’t have a will, or your circumstances have changed, you can get a professional will made, and support terminally ill people in your community, during St Catherine’s Make A Will Fortnight.

None of us like to think about the end of our life but having a professionally written will means that when the time comes, you can be confident that people you love, and causes important to you will be looked after.

When Wendy’s husband Ken died, she wanted to know that their girls would always be cared for so she used St Catherine’s Make A Will Fortnight. She said, “Immediately after Ken died I couldn’t remember anything. I lived off post-it notes, and even simple things weren’t possible. I’d never expected to lose my husband so soon or to become a lone parent, but I knew I had to do all I could to protect our girls. That meant sorting out my will. After what happened to Ken, I wanted to know that if anything happened to me our girls would be looked after.

Writing my will, and acknowledging the huge change that had taken place, was so hard but St Catherine’s and a local solicitor made the process easy, and I felt comforted that I’d done it afterwards.”

For two weeks in May (11 to 22 May 2020), carefully selected solicitors across Sussex and Surrey are generously giving up their time and expertise in return for a donation to St Catherine’s.

Suggested donations are:

£120 for a single will £180 for a joint will

Your donation will help provide hospice care for people in your community.

When making your will there’s no obligation to include a gift to St Catherine’s, but any gift, big or small, is a wonderful way to make sure your care for your loved ones and local community will live on.

17 Gifts left in wills to St Catherine’s fund the care of one in four hospice patients so they make a huge difference. Andy Perry, Legacy Officer at St Catherine's said, "Currently our hospice isn’t able to help everyone locally who needs our support, but in the future, we want to make sure no one faces death and

loss alone. If you include a gift in your will, you’ll take us closer to helping more people in your community.”

For full details and a list of solicitors taking part, please visit www.stch. org.uk/mawf or contact Andy Perry on: 01293 447369, or andyperry@stch.org.uk.

Appointments are limited and must be booked by Thursday 7th May 2020.