We hope that this page will be helpful if you are handling a gift left to the Wordsworth Trust in a will on behalf of a client or a loved one.
Gifts in wills of all sizes help the Wordsworth Trust to fulfil Wordsworth’s wish – that his poetry would ‘live and do good’. If you would like to let us know about a gift that has been left to the Wordsworth Trust (whether it is a financial gift, an object offered to our collection or a gift of books for sale in our Shop), please address your communication to Mark Bains, Development Manager: contact us.
If you can, please also send us a copy of the will, or at least the section of the will in which the Wordsworth Trust is mentioned. This is especially important if it contains information about any specific purposes for which the gift is to be used.
It would also be helpful if you could let us know our benefactor’s full name and postal address, so that we can update our mailing list if necessary.
Please make cheques payable to ‘The Wordsworth Trust’ and send them to Mark Bains at our registered address:
The Wordsworth Trust
Dove Cottage
Grasmere
Cumbria
LA22 9SH.
Please contact us if you would like to pay a bequest to the Wordsworth Trust by bank transfer, and Mark will get in touch with you.
Gifts in wills have helped to create the award-winning visitor experience at Wordsworth Grasmere, introduce people of all ages to Wordsworth’s inspirational poetry, and preserve Dove Cottage and the collection for future generations.
Follow these links to see examples of the kind of work that a gift left to the Wordsworth Trust in a will can support:
Activities for schoolchildren (c.1.5 minutes)
Activities for students (c.3 minutes)
Conservation of the collection (c.9 minutes)
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