What is Jewish Legacy?

Jewish Legacy has 43 cross communal charity partners, all working together to highlight the importance of legacy giving.

Jewish Legacy was formed 10 years ago and, since that date, has worked as a partnership to inform the Jewish community about its importance and, at the same time, challenge current perceptions about legacy giving. Legacy giving applies to all ages and levels of income and, whilst we realise that friends and family are obviously a priority, leaving a gift to a cause that is important to you, doesn’t need to affect the gifts you leave to them.

While the Jewish community is known for its generosity, only 25% (one in four members) of the community leave a charitable Legacy in their Will, compared to 75% who give during their lifetime.

We, at Jewish Legacy, would like to improve that statistic.

While family and friends will always come first, there’s no reason why you can’t also make a gift in your Will to your favourite causes. Jewish Legacy’s aim is to increase the number of Legacies being left by the community, by making them aware of just how important Legacy giving is and what a difference a gift in their Will can make to the charity of their choice.

It is not our intention for individual members of the community to leave a Legacy to Jewish Legacy itself. We are here to ensure the community as a whole makes leaving a gift in the Will to a charity of their choice, the norm.