A gift in your Will

For over 100 years, our supporters’ generous bequests have helped us adapt to meet the changing needs of veterans. From state-of-the-art facilities in our three new Homes to award-winning dementia care, we have worked tirelessly to ensure we provide the very best for those who have had the courage to serve our country.

Would you consider making a gift in your Will to Royal Star & Garter, so that we can be here for the veterans who will need our support in the future?

How a gift in your Will can help

By choosing to support Royal Star & Garter in your Will, you are ensuring that veterans and their partners are able to access the very best in care, helping them live positively in the face of disability and dementia. Here are some of the ways your gift will make a difference:

Providing 24 hour tailored nursing and innovative, award-winning dementia care
Enabling us to deliver well-being programmes that ensure our residents live happy and fulfilled lives
Maintaining and developing our award-winning spacious Homes, including a new project to better support younger veterans
Maximising the use of our wheelchair-accessible landscaped sensory gardens
Developing our future services including our outreach programme.

Write your Will for free

We are pleased to offer our supporters the opportunity to write or update a simple Will. You can choose to write your Will online with Farewill, or face to face with a local qualified solicitor through the National Free Wills Network.

Online

Write a simple Will or mirror Wills with your partner for free online with professional support. Your Will will be checked by one of Farewill’s experts within five days to ensure your wishes are clear.

By telephone

Write your Will over the phone with the help of a Farewill specialist. To get started, please call Farewill on 020 8050 2686, quoting Royal Star & Garter or click below to request a call back.

Face to face

Request a Free Wills pack from the National Free Wills Network and you’ll be sent a list of local participating solicitors by post. You then have 90 days to make an appointment to write your Will.

There is no obligation to leave a gift to Royal Star & Garter in your Will. However, once you have provided for loved ones, we hope you will consider remembering our charity in this way.

Understanding the language

You might come across some unfamiliar legal terms when writing your Will, so we have put together a glossary to help explain some of the terms you may see or hear.

Open the glossary

Large or small, a gift in your Will would provide life enhancing care for veterans living with disability or dementia

Since 1916 legacy gifts have helped us to develop and expand our specialist care for thousands of veterans and their partners

By 2028, we estimate that around 65,000 veterans will have developed dementia

Charity details

Please include these details in your Will to ensure we can be properly identified:

The Royal Star & Garter Homes
15 Castle Mews, Hampton
Middlesex, TW12 2NP
Registered Charity No. 210119

Helpful information

Types of gift & suggested wordingDownload
Inheritance Tax fact sheetDownload
Pledge formDownload
CodicilDownload

Executor information

Acting as an Executor can be a complex and time-consuming task, and we are grateful for the kind assistance of anyone taking on this role. We hope our Information for Executors will provide helpful guidance. Please get in touch if you have any questions – call 020 8481 7676 and ask for our Legacy team.

Information for ExecutorsDownload

Make a pledge

Please let us know if you intend to include Royal Star & Garter in your Will, or have already done so.

Get in touch

Our Legacy Team would be pleased to answer any questions about making a gift in your Will or using our Free Wills offer.

legacies@starandgarter.org

Telephone

020 8481 7676

More information

Our handy Gift in Will booklet has everything you need to know about leaving a gift in your Will.

Download a Gift in Will booklet