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	Your Legacy to Clwyd Special Riding Centre

Footprints into the Future.
If you are considering leaving some money to a charity in your will, you may have in mind choosing a charity that is involved with animals, or perhaps one which helps people with special needs. Here is your opportunity to do both with a single legacy, and you will be helping to ensure that this riding centre can continue to offer its very special services into the future.
		Clwyd Special Riding Centre is a unique Local Charity run by a group of committed volunteers. Every week over 200 people of all ages with special needs benefit from the freedom and stimulation of riding and carriage driving. It remains the only residential riding centre in Great Britain where groups from all over the country and abroad are able to experience the enormous social, physical and mental benefits of a residential riding holiday. The Centre, which opened in 1982, relies entirely on volunteers both for manpower and for fund-raising, and all offers of assistance are gratefully received.
We are located between Wrexham and Mold in North Wales. We have 24 ponies and horses at the Centre, from the smallest Shetland to the largest vaulting horse. It costs us £1,200 to keep a pony for a year. At the present time: £100 will buy a new rug for a horse; £250 will fund 10 hippotherapy sessions; £600 will fund a rider for a year; £3,000 will buy a new horse.
		Our aim is to provide people of all ages with special needs the opportunity to ride, carriage drive or equestrian vault at the level of their ability, choice and ambition. RDA (Riding for the Disabled Association) member groups from all over the country and abroad visit the Centre for residential riding holidays. Riders look after their own ponies—they may have been looked after all their lives — now they have to look after someone else.
80% of our income is from voluntary donations, legacies and sponsorship, and so we should be grateful for any support you can give — because that generosity can and will change peoples’ lives.
Making Your Will The basic steps are Decide on your beneficiaries. Appoint executors to implement your will. Write down your wishes. Go to a solicitor, or use DIY will-forms from a stationer if you feel confident. Have your will witnessed. Review your will from time to time to keep it up-to-date.
If you would like to contact us about a gift by e-mail, please click on this link. info@clwydspecialridingcentre.org.uk
Types of Legacy There are a few different kinds of gift you can leave in your Will. The most common are described below. Residuary bequest A gift of the remainder of the estate after all other bequests have been made and debts cleared is called a residuary bequest. Pecuniary bequest A gift of a fixed sum of money in your Will is called a pecuniary bequest. The value of pecuniary legacies will decrease over time, as the cost of living increases. Specific bequest A particular named item left as a gift in your Will is known as a specific bequest - for example, a piece of jewellery. Contingent bequest A gift in your Will that depends upon the occurrence of an event which may or may not happen is known legally as a contingent bequest. An example is a bequest to a charity which applies only if other beneficiaries named in the Will die before the testator (person who made the Will).
Examples of Wording Should you wish to remember Clwyd Special Riding Centre in your Will, you might wish to take the following wording suggestions for a residuary bequest and a pecuniary bequest to your solicitor. They will ensure that your wishes are accurately followed: It is important to ensure that the following clause below is inserted, whichever wording you need to use: Residuary bequest (a proportion) I give (%) of the residue of my real and personal estate which I can dispose of by Will in any manner I think proper to Clwyd Special Riding Centre (Registered Charity No. 1118241) of Llanfynydd, Wrexham, LL15 5HN and the receipt of the Honorary Treasurer or the proper officer for the time being of Clwyd Special Riding Centre shall be a complete discharge to my Executors. Pecuniary bequest (a set sum) I give the sum of ...... pounds to Clwyd Special Riding Centre (Registered Charity No. 1118241 of Llanfynydd, Wrexham, LL15 5HN and the receipt of the Honorary Treasurer or other proper officer for the time being of Clwyd Special Riding Centre shall be a complete discharge to my Executors. It is important to ensure that the following clause is inserted, whichever wording you need to use: If at my death any charity named as a beneficiary in this Will or any Codicil hereto has changed its name or amalgamated with or transferred its assets to another body then my Executors shall give effect to any gift made to such charity as if it had been made (in the first case) to the body in its changed name or (in the second place) to the body which results from such amalgamation or to which such transfer has been made. Please also remember to use our full name Clwyd Special Riding Centre and the correct registered address and charity number. Llanfynydd, Wrexham, LL15 5HN Charity number: 1118241
Thank You Thank you for considering Clwyd Special Riding Centre for a gift which will give immense pleasure to deserving people who have a variety of special needs, and will help to ensure the future of the Centre.