Leave a Lasting Legacy
Leaving a gift in your Will is a powerful way to support our foster families and help looked after children grow up in safe, loving homes.
Your legacy can provide the tools, resources, and life-changing experiences that help children feel secure, build confidence, and reach their full potential.
It’s a lasting act of kindness that helps ensure every child in foster care has the chance to flourish — surrounded by care, stability, and hope for a brighter future.
How Your Gift Can Help
At The Foster Care Charity, we’re a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to transforming lives through foster care. We don’t answer to shareholders — we exist solely to support children and the people who care for them. Every penny we receive is reinvested into providing exceptional care, expert training, and round-the-clock support for our foster families. Because fostering is more than a placement — it’s a lifelong impact. And we’re here for the journey.
Provide Enrichment Activities
From music lessons to sports clubs and art classes, your gift could open doors to activities that boost confidence, uncover talents, and create a sense of joy and belonging.
Fund Specialist Therapy & Support
Many children in foster care have experienced trauma. Your gift could help a child access professional therapy or counselling and help build emotional resilience.
Access to Life Skills & Independence
For older children preparing to leave care, your gift could fund essential life skills programmes, like budgeting or driving lessons — setting them up for a confident, independent future.
If you’re writing or updating your Will, simply let your solicitor know that you’d like to include a gift to The Foster Care Charity. Even a small legacy can help us continue delivering life-changing support to children and foster families across the country.
Here’s what your solicitor will need:
Charity name: The Foster Care Charity
Registered address: Penny Hall The Haysfield, Spring Lane North, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1GF
Charity number: 1201143 (Registered in England & Wales)
What is a Legacy?
A charitable legacy is when you leave money to a charity in your Will.
Did you know you can leave just 1% as a Gift in your Will and the other 99% will go to your loved ones?
Anyone can do this. You can decide to leave a fixed amount, or whatever money is left once the other gifts in your Will have been given out. By leaving a gift in your Will to The Foster Care Charity, you can be sure that your support will live on into the future. Your gift can also help to reduce the burden of inheritance tax on your estate.
However you choose to remember us in your Will, and whatever size your legacy may be, you can be sure it will really be appreciated.
What is a Letter of Wishes?
A Letter of Wishes is a document you have drawn up to accompany your Will. Unlike a Will, it is not legally binding. However it does provide guidance for the people dealing with your estate and/or any trusts that are to be set up after you die.
A Letter of Wishes tells your executors, trustees, and/or family your views on how you would like them to deal with your assets. It can also set out the way you wish them to approach the exercise of their powers.
You could add gift to The Foster Care Charity in your Letter of Wishes. The information needed is our charity name, registered address and registered charity number.
Our Pledge to You!
- We recognise that your loved ones come first in your Will.
- We will never ask you about the size or type of gift if you decide to support our work this way.
- You never have to tell us your intentions – we respect your right to privacy.
- We completely understand that circumstances change and there might be a time when you need to take us out of your Will.
- We promise to use your gift wisely in support of the care of children and in line with your wishes.
We’d love to say thank you in person, if you choose to leave a gift in your Will. So please do let us know that you have. When you get in touch, we could chat about ways in which you’d like us to celebrate your gift when the time eventually comes. Perhaps you’d like to set up an annual achievement award or scholarship in your name? Or perhaps you have other ideas about how you’d like your legacy to be remembered.
Whatever you decide, we’ll make sure your generosity lives on — touching the lives of children and young people for years to come.
We’d Love to Hear From You!
Our Fundraising Team will happily answer any more questions you have about leaving your legacy with The Foster Care Charity.
Please email us: fundraising@fccharity.org.uk or phone us on: 0800 0856538
