Legacy Week Pledge
25th August 2026
Image: Legacy Week 2026 at Corbett Le Quesne
A Better Tomorrow?
Legacy week is an annual initiative with real long term value to our local community.
This year we are supporting a joint initiative between the Association of Jersey Charities, Jersey Fundraising Forum and local charities to highlight the importance of legacies in wills.
We are also pledging to advise all clients about the option of leaving a gift to a charity when they make a will. This is good practice in any event but this pledge highlights the importance to charities of donations made in wills.
Read more about what the AJC are doing here: Jersey Legacy Week
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Below is the article from the JEP Legacy Week Supplement
A legacy can mean more than leaving money to family
By Simon Lofthouse and Advocate Elizabeth Le Guillou
When most people consider writing a Will, their first thoughts often go to family and friends. Who will inherit the house? What will happen to savings and investments? Are there specific possessions that should be passed on to children, grandchildren, or other important people?
These are important questions. However, Legacy Week also invites you to think about whether there's a cause or charity you'd like to include in your Will as a form of remembrance.
Charitable legacies can take various forms. A person may leave a fixed sum, specific asset, or a portion of what remains of their estate after other gifts. For charities, gifts left in Wills are highly significant, enabling them to sustain their activities well into the future.
At Corbett Le Quesne, we think charitable giving should be a normal part of the Will-making conversation.
This does not imply urging a client to donate to charity or pressuring anyone to do so. A Will must truly represent the client’s personal wishes and priorities.
But when we discuss the people and organisations a client might wish to benefit, we see no reason not to mention the possibility of a charitable legacy as well.
During this Legacy Week, Corbett Le Quesne proudly commits to highlighting charitable giving as an option when discussing Wills with clients. It is just another potential beneficiary they can consider. Ultimately, whether a client chooses to include a charity, and which charity it is, is completely their choice.
Sometimes charitable giving can also sit alongside deeply personal concerns.
For many people, one of those concerns is what will happen to a much-loved pet after their death. A dog, cat, horse or other animal cannot inherit money, but proper provision can be made for its future care.
In simple cases, this might involve entrusting an animal to a trusted person along with funds to cover food, veterinary care, and other costs. Jersey law also provides a less common alternative for those seeking a more formal arrangement.
A non-charitable purpose trust (NCPT) can be created for a defined purpose rather than for named beneficiaries. That purpose could be the care and welfare of a particular animal for the rest of its life.
Money can be placed into the trust, trustees appointed to administer it, and arrangements made for matters such as where the animal should live, veterinary treatment and the payment of reasonable expenses. An independent enforcer is responsible for ensuring that the trustees carry out the stated purpose.
The trust can specify how any remaining funds are handled after the animal passes away, such as donating the balance to an animal welfare charity.
This resonates with us because the JSPCA will be Corbett Le Quesne’s Charity of the Year for 2027. The efforts of organisations like the JSPCA serve as a reminder that a charitable legacy, whether big or small, can have a lasting impact well beyond an individual's lifetime.
Good estate planning is ultimately about identifying who and what matter to you and ensuring your wishes are properly recorded.
For some people, that will mean family. For others, it may include friends, a much-loved animal, a charity, or all of them.
Legacy Week provides a good reason for that conversation.