HeartBeat Trust is an Irish charity working to help everyone prevent, protect and predict heart failure in order to live healthier and happier lives.

Ireland has higher death rates from heart failure than breast and bowel cancer and so we commenced our life saving clinical trials, research and heart screening appointments as far back in 2004. Today in 2020, each week 100 people are diagnosed with Heart Failure.

Thanks to many kind people our research has lead in vital medical heart failure breakthroughs in the last few decades. Even a small gift in your will can help save another heart and change attitudes to our health.

Leaving a gift in your will means that you can make a substantial contribution that costs nothing in your lifetime but will mean everything to someone else someday, and will make you feel good now knowing that you’ll be changing –and genuinely saving – many people’s lives.

If or when the time is right for you to include a gift in your will please remember us. A gift, no matter how small, will make a big difference.

For further information or to speak, in total confidence, about leaving a legacy to HeartBeat Trust please contact Kathrina on 01 284 5735.

Types of legacies and suggested wording

Types of Legacies

If you would like to remember HeartBeat Trust in your Will, there are three main types of gift you can make:

• Residuary Gift – is the gift of all (or part) of the value of your estate after debts, liabilities and other legacies have been paid and is the most valuable kind of legacy to HeartBeat Trust.
• Pecuniary Gift – is the gift of a particular sum of money.
• Specific – is the gift of a specified item that could be for example; property, a painting or a piece of jewellery.

Suggested wording for a gift in your Will

If you would like to leave HeartBeat Trust a gift in your Will the following wording may be helpful when you visit your legal advisor:

“I give all (or a _% share of) the residue of my estate to HeartBeat Trust (Registered Charity Number:20056216), 3 Crofton Tce, DunLaoghaire, Co. Dublin, for its general charitable purposes and I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer or duly authorised officer shall be a valid and appropriate form of discharge.”

Suggested wording for a codicil to HeartBeat Trust:

If you have already made your Will and decide that you would like to add a gift to HeartBeat Trust, the following wording for a codicil may be helpful when you visit your legal advisor:

“I (name) of (address) declare this to be my first codicil to my last Will dated (date). I give (details of legacy) to HeartBeat Trust, Registered Charity Number: 20056216, 3 Crofton Tce, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin , for its general charitable purposes and I direct that the Treasurer or duly authorised officer shall be valid and appropriate form of discharge. In all other respects I confirm my Will.”