How you can help LWT

Legacies help safeguard Lincolnshire's wild places and wildlife Legacies have helped the Trust purchase new nature reserves - Deeping Lakes - Rare and uncommon species have benefited from legacies - Avocet - Remembering the Trust in your Will will help safeguard our natural heritage - Heath's Meadows - Information your advisor will need when drawing up a Will Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Banovallum House Manor House Street Horncastle Lincolnshire LN9 5HF Charity number: 218895 Tel: 01507 526667 Fax: 01507 525732 Email: Website: www.lincstrust.org.uk

Legacies: Nature Remembered

How you can help wildlife in Lincolnshire by remembering the Trust in your Will.

For more than fifty years the Trust has been safeguarding the wildlife and wild places of Lincolnshire. No organisation has done more for wildlife in our countryside. The Trust's nature reserves include 66 that are part or wholly owned, paid with grants and legacies.

Legacies provide us with the largest source of "unrestricted" income - money that we are free to match against grants and other "restricted" income. It is money from legacies that enables us to be forward-looking and bold with plans for new nature reserves, habitat re-creation and wildlife management.

Seashore, ancient woodlands, chalk downland, clean freshwater, old meadows and heather heathland all feature among the places we have saved with the help of legacies. Many of these places would have been lost to the plough or development without the foresight of Trust benefactors.

We have all seen tremendous changes take place in the countryside, and much that was beautiful has been lost. There is still a great deal to be done. By making a bequest to the Trust, you can help to ensure that part of Lincolnshire's natural heritage is safeguarded for future generations.

Making a Will

Including the Trust in a Will is usually simple and straightforward, and can help limit the tax payable on your estate. But making a Will is a task for an expert and we advise you to consult your solicitor, accountant or high street bank specialist for guidance.

You can choose to make a bequest to the Trust of a fixed amount or a proportion of your net estate after the payment of other bequests and expenses. Fixed amounts are swiftly eroded by inflation, so a proportion of the residue is preferable.

If you wish to bequeath land, property or belongings to the Trust we ask that you discuss your intentions with us. We are also glad to discuss suitable wording for bequests.

A world full of life and natural beauty, trees, flowers, birds, butterflies, chalk streams, woods, hedgerows, ancient landscapes - this is surely the most precious gift we can bequeath to future generations. Others have given this to us. Perhaps we ought to think ahead too?