Leave a gift in your will

There are three main types of gifts you can leave to anyone in your will:

• A residuary gift is a share of everything you own, after all other payments in your will have been made.
• A pecuniary gift is a specific amount, e.g. “£5,000”.
• A specific gift is a particular item, such as property, antiques, jewellery or shares.

You’ll need our full name, address, and registered charity numbers:

Asthma and Lung UK
The White Chapel Building
10 Whitechapel High Street
London, E1 8QS

Registered charity in England and Wales (326730), Scotland (SC038415) and Isle of Man (1177)

Take this information, along with an idea of the gift you would like to leave, to your will writer or solicitor.

We would always recommend using a solicitor or professional will writer to write or update your will. We offer a free will writing service for supporters of Asthma + Lung UK. 

Learn more about our free will writing service.

If you leave a gift to charity in your will, it won't count towards the total taxable value of your estate. You can also reduce the Inheritance Tax Rate on the rest of your estate from 40% to 36%, if you leave at least 10% of your ‘net estate’ to a charity.

The rules are complex, so to it's best to speak to a professional will writer or solicitor about the options available to you. 

For information about tax on gifts in wills, go to the HMRC website (for UK only).

The best way to ensure that your gift will be of the greatest help to people with lung conditions is to leave your gift for general charitable purposes. This gives us the flexibility we need to continue our varied work and projects. However, we understand that you may want to restrict your gift to be used for a particular condition or area of our work. If so, please let your solicitor or will writer know when they write your will. 

See our Information for executors and solicitors page.

The executor is responsible for making sure the estate is administered properly.

At all times you must act in the best interests of the estate. The executor is responsible for making sure all the relevant taxes are paid and all the necessary paperwork is filed with HMRC.

In the first instance you will need to locate their last Will and Testament. This will give you the relevant information regarding the law firm or will writers, who often hold the original will. If you think they used the Asthma and Lung UK Free Will Service, we can check our records and can tell you which provider they used. You can then contact them directly.

Some people may have registered their will with Certainty's National Will Register. If this is the case, you can search the register (for a fee).

When writing or executing a will, you may come across some unfamiliar legal or financial terms. Read our Legacy glossary where we’ve defined some legal and financial terms relating to gifts in wills.