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Get a free guide to leaving a gift in your Will

Our free Will guide offers an easy step-by-step process on how to write your Will. It also includes helpful templates, the types of gifts you can leave, information on our free Will services, and the impact your gift can have on British Heart Foundation.

What's in the guide?

Leaving a gift in your Will involves many important decisions. To make this process easier, we have created a guide that's straightforward and informative. Inside the guide you'll find step by step processes on how to write your Will, Free Will templates to help you plan, information on our Free Will service and information on what gifts in Wills have helped us achieve.

The front cover of our Gift in Wills guide. The copy reads 'Your Gift in Will Guide'. To the right is an opened guide, showing the first page outlining how to leave a gift in your will.

Why your gifts in Wills are important

Far too many of us have lost loved ones to heart and circulatory diseases – the world’s biggest killers. Your gift to British Heart Foundation (BHF) help fund groundbreaking research, CPR training, and vital support services to keep hearts beating across the UK. 

Since 1961, our supporters have enabled scientific breakthroughs like pacemakers, portable defibrillators, and lifesaving statins. With your support, our future ambitions are even bolder. 

Every 3 minutes, someone in the UK dies from a heart or circulatory disease, often without a chance to say goodbye. The research we fund offers hope and answers. 

Your gift to British Heart Foundation can help save lives. 

It was dawning on me how much I nearly lost when I had a heart attack. But I am here. The science behind it all improves all the time, and as the years go on, things will become better.

Dean, who was 53 when he had a heart attack.

Dean smiling and sitting on a red bench

What your support means

More than half of our income comes from gifts in Wills. These funds are crucial in supporting researchers to find new ways to prevent heart and circulatory diseases.

  • £34m in research into heart attacks
  • £24m in research into regenerative medicine
  • £15m in research into vascular dementia

Free gift in Will guide

Our free Gift in Will Guide provides a step-by-step process for writing a Will, explains different ways to leave a gift and shows how your gift supports groundbreaking research.

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