Legacy giving at Kingston University
Shape the future by including Kingston University in your will. Your legacy can inspire and empower generations.
Why consider a legacy gift to Kingston University?
I've seen the unfairness that young people face if they do not have financial capital or connections behind them. That's why I left a gift in my will for the student Hardship fund.
What will your legacy be?
Leaving a legacy gift is a powerful way to contribute to Kingston University's mission of unlocking potential and fostering innovation. Your support helps fund scholarships, research and student facilities, directly impacting future generations of students.
From supporting groundbreaking research to aiding students from underprivileged backgrounds, your legacy can create opportunities and transform lives. As a donor, you’ll be remembered as a valued member of the Kingston community, with your contributions celebrated and appreciated.
I want to leave a legacy to enable women from developing countries to have the opportunity to study at Kingston.
Explore legacy giving options
A legacy gift to Kingston University is a meaningful way to celebrate your connection to the institution and make a lasting impact. You can support a specific area, such as:
- Student Hardship Fund: Providing crucial financial aid to students facing challenges.
- Care Leavers Bursary Fund: Offering tailored support for young people without family support networks.
- Inspire the Future Scholarships: Enabling ambitious students to thrive regardless of financial background.
- Research Fund: Advancing innovative solutions to today’s pressing challenges.
Kingston University respects your privacy, your priorities and your intentions, ensuring your legacy aligns with your values. Legacy gifts may also provide tax benefits by reducing inheritance tax.
For more guidance, including will wording and tax considerations, visit our detailed resources or speak to a member of our team.
I hope my legacy will make a real difference to future students.
Inspiring legacies
Helping future students thrive
Your legacy can provide scholarships, enabling students to access a high-quality education regardless of financial background.Supporting groundbreaking research
Legacy gifts contribute to pioneering research, from health innovations to environmental sustainability.- Building a better campus
Your gift can fund state-of-the-art facilities that enhance learning and collaboration.
For me, my legacy will be about helping someone achieve their research ambitions, particularly those who may have otherwise been unsuccessful through lack of money.
Important Information about legacy giving
A legacy is a special and lasting way to support Kingston University. It is the sign of an exceptional relationship which recognises the part Kingston has played in your life and the role you can play in its future.
A decision to remember Kingston University in a legacy can make so much possible. Through bursaries and scholarships, a gift in your will can give opportunities to generations of future students to study at Kingston, whatever their background or financial circumstances. You could help with new resources and facilities, support which will be essential for the quality of our teaching in years to come or you could fund projects that innovate and drive industry forward. Alternatively, you could give my successors in the post of Vice-Chancellor the opportunity to direct vital funds towards projects wherever the need is greatest at the time.
Past legacies have helped me to support young people leaving care to attend university and to establish an acclaimed entrepreneurship programme across the University. As a result of alumni generosity and these programmes, hundreds of young people have achieved their potential. I would like my successors to be able to rely on the bequests made today for the benefit of future students and future challenges.
I hope these web pages will be useful to you and will help you make a very special and personal decision. Whatever the amount, I assure you that we appreciate every gift that will help future generations of students and future discovery and achievement at our university.
With heartfelt thanks,
Professor Steven Spier
Vice-Chancellor, Kingston University
We will always respect your privacy
- Leaving a legacy is a big decision. We understand you will decide in your own time.
- We would be grateful if you told us your intentions, but we don't expect you to give us specific details of your bequest.
We will respect your priorities
- Your family comes first.
- We respect your support of other causes.
We will respect your wishes
- If you want to direct your gift to an area of our work that is of special interest or importance to you, please contact us to discuss your ideas so that we can ensure that your wishes can be carried out.
We will be delighted to answer any questions you might have.
When making a gift in your will to Kingston University, please include our name, our address and exempt charity status:
Kingston University
Higher Education Corporation of Holmwood House
Grove Crescent
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2EE
Kingston University has charitable status for all UK tax purposes and is an 'exempt' charity under Schedule 3 of the Charities Act 2011 and under the terms of the Education Reform Act 1988. Consequently, it does not have a registered charity number.
If you have decided to leave a legacy gift, but already have a will, you can make an addition to your existing will through a codicil.
Wherever possible, Kingston University would like to use your name to recognise your legacy gift when your donation is received. This ensures that you continue to be a part of the Kingston University community after you are gone.
It also inspires our students to see examples of belief in them as a worthy investment, the importance of higher education and also the material success and generosity of our past alumni.
By remembering Kingston University in your will, you may be able to reduce the taxable value of your assets and so lower the amount of inheritance tax due on your estate.
The Inheritance Tax Threshold (IHT) is £325,000 as at July 2020. If the total value of your estate is above this threshold, it will be subject to IHT. As Kingston University has charitable status, a gift in your will would be exempt from IHT. The gift will be deducted from your estate before IHT is calculated, and so reduce the amount of IHT payable.
If you leave charitable gifts in your will that amount to 10 per cent or more of your chargeable net estate, the IHT rate on the whole of your estate will be reduced from 40 per cent to 36 per cent.
Your solicitor will be able to offer you further advice and guidance on efficient tax planning.
Please visit the GOV.UK website for further information.
Get in touch for further information
Please do get in touch if you have any queries about making a donation to Kingston University.
Call us on: +44 (0) 20 8419 3299
Email us at: development@kingston.ac.uk
Development, Alumni Relations and Engagement
Second Floor, Main Building
Kingston University,
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Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey, KT1 2EE