From supporting Future Tutors and Degree students with bursaries and underpinning course costs, to helping us develop new programmes and add to our Collection of textiles, gifts in Wills make an incredibly important contribution to our work.  Once you have provided for loved ones please consider leaving a legacy to the RSN.  Your gift will ensure future generations will continue to learn and pass on the traditional art of hand embroidery.

A legacy gift, no matter how large or small, makes a lasting difference. Gifts can be for the area of greatest need, from student bursaries and awards, to support for the Collection & Archive and Tutors, or to the RSN as a whole.

A Life Friend of the RSN very kindly gifted £20,000. This is wonderful as it will enable us to support several programmes and projects this year. Another Friend left us £1,000 and this will help with some of the seminars for our Future Tutors programme. But, of course, anyone can leave a gift in their Will, you do not have to be an RSN Friend.

To leave a gift in your Will to the RSN, please visit your solicitor or other adviser. It is quite easy, you just need to give your solicitor the RSN’s details and let them know how much you would like to leave. This can be either a residuary gift, which is taken from the estate after all the specific bequests have been made, or it can be a pecuniary gift which simply means it is a specified amount. If you leave a residuary amount it is usually expressed as a percentage of the residue and, making sure your loved ones are looked after first, will determine what percentage you might have available for a charitable gift. Or for the pecuniary gift, you simply specify how much you would like to go to the named beneficiary.

To leave a gift in your Will to the RSN you need to know our name, Royal School of Needlework, our address – Apt 12A Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9AU and our registered charity number (312774). This is so that your solicitor can check that we are bona fide and also find us when the Will comes into force.

A gift in a Will can really help the RSN to look forward with confidence, so if you’ve enjoyed stitching during your life, please think about leaving a gift in your Will which will help the RSN to inspire the next generation to learn that same skill and gain pleasure from embroidery.

To find out more visit our website or ring 020 3166 6936 for a friendly chat about Wills.  Thank you