Legacies
After providing for those you care for, please consider leaving just a small proportion of what’s left over to help us create tomorrow’s osteopaths, or requesting friends make in-memorium gifts to help the work of the BSO. You can create a fundraising tribute site to benefit the BSO via http://www.bmycharity.com
By remembering the BSO in your will, you could:
- Help older people to maintain their mobility and keep living independent and fulfilling lives
- Support motivated students with their studies.
- Enable the BSO to continue its specialist community outreach clinics
- Improve our teaching and clinic facilities
It may also be possible to name a room in your memory – please talk to us about this.
A legacy, whether it is £500 or £500,000, will make all the difference to a whole range of people's lives when given to the BSO. It is a wonderful way of making a positive difference beyond your lifetime. Without the money received from legacies, the BSO would not be able to provide free and subsidised treatment for the local community.
With 35% of people saying they would consider including a gift to charity after providing for their family and friends in their will, and only 7% doing so according to current research, there is huge potential to increase income from legacies. We are proud to be working with Remember A Charity to make this a reality.
Miss D has been coming to the BSO for over a decade, most recently for treatment on her legs. She has decided to support the BSO with a legacy pledge
"I have set up a legacy pledge in appreciation of the help and support given to me by the students and their tutors. They have treated me with professional care even before they are fully professionally qualified."
Leaving a gift in your will
The process of leaving to money to charity in a will is flexible and allows donors to still provide for family and friends.
Here are three examples of how you can leave a gift to the BSO:
1) Leaving your residue to the British School of Osteopathy
Once you have provided for your family and friends with specific gifts of money or items, the BSO receives all or part of the residue of your estate. This is what is left when all the specific legacies and other liabilities have been paid.
2) Leaving a sum of money to the British School of Osteopathy
If you wish to leave us a sum of money in your will, we suggest that you include the following wording:
"I give to the British School of Osteopathy, Registered Charity No. 312873, 275 Borough High Street, London SE1 1JE the sum of [amount in figures and words] to be used for its general charitable purposes".
3) Leaving a specific item to the British School of Osteopathy
If you wish to leave us a specific valuable object in your will, for example a piece of antique furniture, art, jewellery or a property, we suggest that you include the following wording:
"I give to the British School of Osteopathy, Registered Charity No. 312873, 275 Borough High Street, London SE1 1JE my [insert full description of item] belonging to me at the date of my death.
Remember: All gifts to the BSO are free of inheritance tax!
If your total estate (e.g. your house and contents, car, investments and savings) is worth more than the inheritance tax threshold (which increases every year), you may choose to give whatever is left to charity in order to minimise the inheritance tax paid on your death. From Summer 2012 if you leave 10% of your estate to charity you can reduce inheritance tax payable to 36%, rather than 40%.
You can add a gift to the BSO in your will when you are drawing it up, or add a simple codicil to an existing will. Please state the amount you wish to leave, our full name and address and our charity number: British School of Osteopathy, 275 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JE. Registered charity number 312873.
For more information please see the BSO legacies leaflet. Please call us if you have any queries on 020 7089 5336.