Help the National Trust for Scotland protect the places you treasure most with a gift in your Will
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What are your hopes for the future of Scotland’s magnificent landscapes, gardens, wildlife, buildings, and collections?
This is a question the National Trust for Scotland is putting to its supporters all over Scotland. It may be Scotland’s magnificent natural landscapes, our historic buildings, our dramatic coastlines, or the precious wildlife that calls Scotland home that you care for most. Wherever your passions or interests lie, you can help to ensure the places we all treasure remain protected and accessible for future generations.
The National Trust for Scotland – the country’s largest membership organisation and conservation charity – relies on the support of its generous members and donors to carry out all of its vital conservation work across Scotland. And there’s a meaningful way you can make a difference to places and spaces in the Trust’s care. By including a gift to the National Trust for Scotland in your Will, you can help to ensure our nation’s unique heritage remains protected long into the future.
Protecting the places you treasure most for future generations
Since 1931, the Trust has pioneered public access to the places in its care that make Scotland so special – from ancient houses and castles, battlefields and mills to gardens, coastlines, islands, mountain ranges and the plants and wildlife which depend upon them. These places hold special memories for so many – of adventures, exploring, holidays, learning and discovering.
In March 2022 the National Trust for Scotland launched its new ten-year strategy ‘Nature, Beauty & Heritage for Everyone’, which sets out the ambitions of the charity as it approaches its centenary in 2031. At the heart of this strategy is the Trust’s core mission – to continue conserving, protecting and sharing Scotland’s rich heritage for all to access and enjoy.
There’s a meaningful way that you can help
The cost of caring for the places and spaces in the Trust’s care is only increasing and the charity is reliant on the generosity of those that choose to support its work. As well as supporting through membership or donations, you can also support by including a gift in your Will.
Today, gifts in Wills account for 10p of every £1 that the Trust spends on protecting the places in its care. Simply put, without donations, memberships, and gifts in Wills, the charity’s vital conservation work would not be possible. Gifts in Wills help to fund the work of the Trust’s rangers, conservators, gardeners, archaeologists and wildlife experts who work hard every day to protect and share the places, wildlife and objects in their care.
By including a gift to the National Trust for Scotland in your Will, after taking care of the people closest to you, you can help the Trust’s experts to continue conserving, caring and sharing the places you treasure most for many years to come. Gifts of all sizes really do make a huge difference and by leaving a small percentage of your estate you can help to ensure all of the charity’s work continues for many years to come.
A lasting legacy
If you’d like to leave a lasting legacy to Scotland and want to help ensure that future generations can keep on experiencing, exploring and enjoying the places you treasure most, please consider including a gift to the National Trust for Scotland in your Will.
Find out more about this meaningful way of giving at nts.org.uk/gifts-in-wills and visit support.nts.org.uk/future-hopes to let the Trust know how you feel about supporting their conservation work in this way. If you’d like to contact the National Trust for Scotland directly about including a gift in your Will, please email legacy@nts.org.uk
