Information for executors and solicitors
We administer all legacies for St John Ambulance at our National
Headquarters in London, including those to benefit a particular
unit or region. This ensures you receive a direct response to any
questions you may have and a receipt for any gifts from our Legacy
Administration Officer. We can amend our records too so that we do
not send out any future correspondence to the deceased.
If you have any questions about a gift that has been left to St
John Ambulance, or you are ready to send a legacy payment, please
contact our Legacy Officer:
Lisa Clarke
St John Ambulance
27 St John’s Lane
London
EC1M 4BU
020 7324 4148
legacy@sja.org.uk
Legacies are vital to our life-saving work and we need to ensure
we administer them in accordance with the Charity Commission
guidelines. To help us do this we may need to ask you for some
details about the estate and it would assist us if you can provide
the following:
- • The full name and title of the deceased
- • Their last address
- • The date of death
- • The Executor’s name and contact details
- • A copy of the will
If the gift is a share/percentage of the estate, we would also
need a copy of the Estate Accounts and, if applicable, a Tax
Deduction Certificate (R185) which may enable us to reclaim Income
Tax from HMRC and maximise the generous gift that has been made. It
would also be helpful if you could let us know if there are shares
or property in the estate because it may be possible to minimise
any Capital Gains Tax that may be payable on our share of the same.
For more information about this please contact our Legacy
Administration Officer, who is happy to help.
If you are sending a cheque, please make it payable to St John
Ambulance.