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Leave your legacy

Make a lasting impact with a gift in your will

Writing your will helps bring peace of mind. It is reassurance that your loved ones, and the causes that matter to you, will be taken care of as you would like them to be.

Of course family comes first. But any gift that you leave to Beyond Dementia, whether large or small, will make a lasting difference to people facing the many challenges of dementia, and to their families.

Help the good work to continue

More people are being diagnosed with dementia every day. Referrals to our services rose by 20 per cent in the past two years and we would love to open more essential day clubs and community groups, and to offer more of the one-to-one support that families rely on.

Your gift will help secure the future support - practical, local and loving - that Beyond Dementia does best.

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How to leave your legacy

Leaving a legacy to Beyond Dementia is more straightforward than you might imagine. You can do it when you first make a will, or if you already have a will, you can add a codicil very easily.

You just need to tell your solicitor that you wish to leave a legacy gift to Beyond Dementia (formerly Alzheimer's Support) and provide them with our registered charity number, 1048314, and our address which is 5 Sidmouth Street, Devizes SN10 1LD.  

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"Alzheimer's Support is a wonderful organisation providing care to both those living with dementia and their carers. Our mother was sadly diagnosed with Alzheimer's and the assistance given to our father and the whole family was so greatly valued and needed. This is why I am leaving a Gift in my Will to Alzheimer's Support. It is an organisation truly worthy of support."

Donor Gift in will

"I probably came into caring as you did. One minute I was living my life, the next I was enmeshed in the Alice in Wonderland World of social services, memory clinics, aids, appliances and assessments. Becoming a carer is like falling through the looking glass: we discover a whole new world, one in which we must believe six impossible things before breakfast"

Marianne Talbot Carer

How others' gifts have helped

Legacies have a direct effect on the care and support we can provide.

In recent years bequests allowed us to open new activity groups for support and companionship, and to put our charity on a sound financial footing.

In 2020, a large legacy from our dear friend and supporter Beryl Gover, pictured right, enabled Beyond Dementia (then Alzheimer's Support) to weather the Covid pandemic. Without her gift arriving at exactly the right time, we would not have been able to survive in our current form and continue with our plans for the future - it is as simple as that. Beryl, who supported our work after we cared for her husband, would have been thrilled to know the difference her legacy had made.

Beryl and a friend in matching blue fleeces with a box of paperback books at a fundraising stall. Both ladies are grey-haired, twinkly-eyed and and smiling

Two ways to make your will for free

If you have not yet made a will, we can help you to do so for free. While there is no absolutely no obligation to leave a legacy to Beyond Dementia if you use one of the options below, we hope that you'll consider including even a small gift.