Remember Smile Train in your Will
Leave a legacy of smiles
How to Help
Smile Train’s vision is a world where every person with a cleft is able to live a full and happy life, wherever they are and whatever their circumstances.
Every year, gifts in Wills help us power ahead with our ambitions to deliver the very best in cleft care.
By leaving a gift in your Will, you can ensure that Smile Train’s important work will continue this year, next year, and for decades to come. With your help, we can change the world one smile at a time until every child in need has access to the cleft care they deserve.
Leaving a gift in your Will to Smile Train is simple
The three simplest type of gifts you can choose to leave to Smile Train UK in your Will are:
A percentage of your estate
This is a residuary gift. Once you have looked after those closest to you, gifting a share of your estate to Smile Train can transform the lives of children with clefts for generations to come.
A specific cash sum
This is a pecuniary gift. The gift of a set sum of money to Smile Train UK could demonstrate your belief in a future world where every child has access to the cleft care they deserve.
An item of value
This is a specific gift. An item such as property, jewellery, or art can make an exceptional difference to our work. Please get in touch with us; we would be pleased to learn more about your plans.
Once you have chosen the gift you would like to leave to Smile Train, contact your solicitor or other Will-writing professional to record your wishes.
They will need to know:
Our charity name: The Smile Train UK
Our registered charity number: 1114748
We respect your privacy, and there is no need to share any details with us. However, if you are happy to tell us you will be remembering Smile Train in your Will, then we would really like to say thank you and keep in touch with you about Smile Train’s work.
Our legacy promise
When you tell us you are considering leaving a legacy, we promise to:
- Answer any questions you may have quickly and honestly
- Respect your privacy
- Never put you under pressure to share the details of a gift you have chosen to leave to us
- Keep in touch with you according to your preferences
When in time we receive your wonderful gift, we promise to:
- Respect the wishes you have expressed in your Will
- Be sensitive to your family
- Be supportive and helpful to your chosen Executor(s)
- Promptly dedicate any gift that we receive to improving care for children with clefts.
- Share information about how your gift has helped with your nearest and dearest, if they so wish
Information for Executors
If you have arrived on this webpage because you are a relative or personal friend managing the estate of a loved one, please accept our heartfelt condolences for your loss. We realise that it is a very emotional and possibly rather stressful time for you.
We really appreciate the role you have taken on as Executor, and we are grateful to the wonderfully kind person who has chosen to remember Smile Train in their Will.
- I’m a new executor – where do I start?
- How do I know you’re the specific charity mentioned in the Will?
- What are your contact details for executors?
- When should I contact you?
- How do I pay you once I’m ready to make the distribution?
- How should I handle a pecuniary gift (a cash amount) to Smile Train UK?
- How should I handle a residuary gift (a percentage of the Estate)?
- How should I handle a gift of a specific item?
I’m a new executor – where do I start?
As an Executor, you have been trusted to arrange the affairs of a relative, friend, or client who has passed away. They must have held you in very high regard indeed.
If you have never been executor to a Will before now, there is plenty of advice to help you.
We recommend you visit the Citizen’s Advice website here.
The Public Records Office has a Wills and Probate Checklist that you may find helpful, which you can download here.
The Institute of Legacy Management has specific guidance for executors who are dealing with gifts left to charities. You will find a very helpful Guide for Executors and a Document Checklist for Executors here.
How do I know you’re the specific charity mentioned in the Will?
If you wish to confirm that we are indeed the charity named in the Will, you may find it helpful to visit our entry on the Charity Commission’s Register of Charities: Charity overview, THE SMILE TRAIN UK - 1114748, Register of Charities - The Charity Commission
What are your contact details for executors?
Email us at uklegacies@smiletrain.org
Call us on 0113 547 7256
When should I contact you?
It is helpful if you inform us as soon as you can if a gift has been left to us. Firstly, we can thank you for administering the Estate as Executor and ask you to share our very sincere thanks with other family members and friends. Any gift we receive will help us bring a smile to the face of another child with a cleft.
We can also make sure we remove the deceased’s name from our mailing lists to avoid any upset or distress to family who are dealing with post.
We realise it can take quite a long time to get all the Estate affairs in order once someone has passed away. We will be pleased to hear from you as matters progress, including when the Grant of Probate has been issued to you.
How do I pay you once I’m ready to make the distribution?
When you are ready to make distribution of this special gift to us, here is the information you will need:
(1) Payment by bank transfer:
Account name: The Smile Train UK
Account number: 60099740
Sort code: 40-11-60
Bank name: HSBC
Reference: please use “LEG / Surname of the person who has left us the gift in their Will”
Please notify us of the payment being made so that we can look out for its arrival, and please let us have your contact details so that we can confirm safe receipt and discharge of our legacy under the Will for your Executor records.
Please email us at uklegacies@smiletrain.org
Or call us on 0113 841 8105
(2) Payment by cheque:
Payee: The Smile Train UK
Postal address: York House, Wetherby Road, York, YO26 7NH
Please include a note of the name of the person who has left us the gift in their Will, and your contact details so that we can thank you and confirm safe receipt and discharge of our legacy under the Will for your Executor records.
How should I handle a pecuniary gift (a cash amount) to Smile Train UK?
We ask you to send us a copy of the Will clause that relates to the gift to Smile Train UK once probate has been granted, or when you are in a position to make payment of the gift. We request the Will clause so that we are able to demonstrate to our auditors where our entitlement to these funds comes from, and so that we can ensure we correctly honour any wishes the legator set out about how we should make use of their legacy.
When you are in a position to make the gift, please see the section above on how to make payment of a legacy gift.
How should I handle a residuary gift (a percentage of the Estate)?
When you begin the Estate administration, we ask that you send us a full copy of the Will and a Schedule of the Assets and Liabilities. There may be areas of administration that we can help with, so please don’t hesitate to contact us at the outset and keep in touch with us as the estate administration progresses. In particular, we can give information about our charity tax exemptions and situations we have come across previously in relation to sale of property or shares. If more than one charity has been remembered in the Will, it is quite usual for us to work together so that you don’t have to contact each charity individually at every step and we can keep correspondence and any questions to a minimum for you.
When you are in a position to make the gift, we ask that you send us a copy of the Executor’s statement of account. This is an account that allows the executor(s) to show all transactions that have occurred in the administration of the estate, and the amount payable to the charity.
Please see the section above on how to make the payment of this special legacy gift.
How should I handle a gift of a specific item?
Please get in touch with us to tell us the nature of the specific gift left to us. Please provide us with a copy of the Will clause that confirms our entitlement and any directions on how we should use the gift. We also ask for a copy of the valuation of the item that has been undertaken for probate purposes. In most circumstances, we will ask that you oversee the sale of the item on our behalf, but please do contact us first, because this may depend on the Will clause wording.
Interested in learning more?
Complete the form below to access the Legacy of Smiles guide.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, or would like to learn more about the lasting difference you’ll make by remembering Smile Train UK in your Will, please email uklegacies or call 0113 547 7256.