Law firm raises more than £1.5 million for
A LAW firm with offices in Reading town centre has raised more than £1.5 million for a cancer charity.
Blandy & Blandy, based in Blagrave Street, has been supporting Cancer Research UK’s will writing scheme for two decades and, in 2019, the firm was presented with a special Gold Award by the charity.
Donations to the charity in lieu of paying for wills prepared by the company, and legacies left by clients have contributed to this total.
Gifts in wills fund more than a third of the charity’s research, which funds 4,000 scientists, doctors, and nurses nationwide.
Blandy & Blandy is the only firm of solicitors in either Reading or Henley to be supporting CRUK in this way.
Caroline Casagranda, a partner in the firm’s Wills, Probate, Tax & Trusts team, said she was proud of this significant shared achievement.
And Clare Moore, director of product and portfolio strategy, fundraising and marketing, at Cancer Research UK, said: “We all reach a stage at some point in our lives where we start to look ahead and consider what will happen to our financial affairs in the future, when we may no longer be around.”
The charity offers the service to adults either making their first will or updating an existing one.
“The service has grown in popularity over the past few years and while it is provided free of any obligation, most people choose to kindly leave a gift to the charity,” Ms Moore said.
“It’s quite astonishing to think that by simply combining enthusiasm with the highest professional standards Blandy & Blandy has helped secure more than £1.5 million worth of legacy gifts, which will go a long way towards helping our scientists, doctors and nurses to beat cancer sooner.”