Useful contacts and organisations
Age UK
7th Floor, One America Square, 17 Crosswall, London, EC3N 2LB
Age UK publishes a number of useful guides and factsheets on Wills and estate planning. These include Making a Will and Dealing with an estate.
Advice Line 0800 678 1602
8am – 7pm every day,
365 days a year
Email via the online contact form
British Institute of Funeral Directors
National Office, 10 St John Road, Wroughton, Wiltshire, SN4 9ED
The only Professional Body for qualified Funeral Directors in the UK. Full members use post nominals MBIFD and Licensed members who undertake annual CPD
Tel: 0800 032 2733
Email: admin@bifd.org.uk
Cancer Care Map
Cancer Care Map is an online resource to help people living with cancer find care and support services in their local area, anywhere in the UK.
Carers UK
20 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4LX
Carers UK offers advice and support for carers. You are a career if you look after a relative, friend or neighbour because they are frail, ill or have a disability.
Advice Line: 0808 808 7777
Mon- Fri 9am - 6pm
Email: advice@carersuk.org
Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx)
CILEx can provide details of lawyers in your area, including those who specialise in Wills and Probate.
Tel: 01234 841000
Mon, Tue & Thur 9am-5pm,
Wed 10am-5pm & Fri 9am-4pm
Email via the online contact form
Citizens Advice Bureau
Citizens Advice offers free, independent, confidential and impartial advice.
Visit www.citizensadvice.org.uk and enter the ‘family’ section for more information about writing a Will.
Advice Link (England) 0800 144 8848
Advice Link (Wales) 0800 702 2020
Email via online contact form
Cruse Bereavement Support
This organisation can provide support and counselling for bereaved people throughout the UK.
Helpline: 0808 808 1677
Email via the online contact form
www.cruse.org.uk
CruseChat - Chat online with expert grief counsellors
Financial Conduct Authority
The FCA regulate the conduct of nearly 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure that our financial markets are honest, competitive and fair.
(Freephone) 0800 111 6768
Mon - Fri 8am-6pm, Sat 9am-1pm
Email: Via the online contact form
HMRC Inheritance Tax
How Inheritance Tax works. Threshold, rules and allowances.
Institute of Professional Willwriters
Trinity Point, New Road, Halesowen, West Midlands, B63 3HY
Tel: 0345 257 2570/ 0121 504 4851
Email via the online contact form
Law Society www.lawsociety.org.uk
Lovingly Managed
Lovingly Managed is a business aiming to support families dealing with the loss of a loved one and is headed by a former partner of a law practice specialising in Wills, Probate and elderly care issues. We can do all the practical things necessary at that time by acting as a type of ‘surrogate daughter’ to include rehoming animals, emptying properties, packing up and distributing items together with help with completing probate forms. We are also able to help with Wills, Living Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney and full End of Life plans and of course actual funeral planning to ensure smooth procedures before and after a death. Those who plan fully will then have peace of mind for those they leave behind.
Tel: 07786 382336
Email: info@lovinglymanaged.com
National Association of FuneralDirectors
618 Warwick Road, Solihull, West MidlandsB91 1AA
Website has useful list of links to other organisations
General Enquiries: 0121 711 1343
Email via the online contact form
National Association of Memorial Masons
1 Castle Mews, Rugby, Warwickshire CV21 2XL
Free advice to the public on all aspects of Memorialisation
Tel: 01788 542264
Email: enquires@namm.org.uk
National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors
SAIF Business Centre, 3 Bullfields, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, CM21 9DB
SAIF members are Independent, sometimes family run funeral directors and abide by a strict Code of Practice. To find out if your local Funeral Directors is a member of SAIF please go onto the website or contact SAIF office direct.
Tel: 0345 230 6777 /01279 726777
Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm
Email via the online contact form
The Natural Death Centre Independent Funeral Advice
The Natural Death Centre, In The Hill House, Watley Lane, Twyford, Winchester SO21 1QX
The Natural Death Centre Charity offers free and impartial advice on every death and funeral related topic. From getting your affairs in order to making choices that avoid funeral incurred debt, also information on DIY funerals, private land burial and all consumer rights in this more unusual area.
Helpline: 01962 712690
Email: contact@naturaldeath.org.uk
NHS
Your complete guide to conditions, symptoms and treatments, including what to do and when to get help.
111 (Non-emergency)
Probate and Inheritance Tax
Help applying for Probate
Tel: 0300 123 1072
www.gov.uk/applying-for-probate
The Solicitors’ Regulation Authority
The Cube, 199 Wharfside Street, Birmingham B1 1RN
The SRA can provide details of solicitors in your area, including those who specialise in Wills and Probate.
Contact Centre 0370 606 2555
Ethics Helpline 0370 606 2577
Via the online contact form
The Society of Will Writers
Chancery House, Whisby Way, Lincoln LN6 3LQ
The largest self-regulatory organisation regulating Will writers and estate planning professionals. Our primary aim is to provide
consumers with confidence in using SWW members.
Tel: 01522 687888
Email: info@willwriters.com
www.willwriters.com
LGBT+ Switchboard
At Switchboard we provide information, support and referral service for lesbians, gay men and bisexual and trans people – and anyone considering issues around their sexuality and/or gender identity.
Tel: 0800 0119 1000
Open 10am – 10pm every day
Will Aid
Will Aid’s ‘Make a Will Month’ ‘Make a Will Month’, Will Aid’s UK-wide campaign every November, encouraging adults of any age to have their will professionally drawn up by a solicitor, but instead of paying a fee they can make a donation which is shared by 9 UK charities, including ActionAid, Age UK, British Red Cross, Christian Aid, NSPCC, Save the Children, Sightsavers, SCAIF and Trocaire.
Useful websites:
www.bereavementadvice.org - Practical help when someone dies
www.makingawill.org.uk - lots of useful information, including a checklist for working out your assets.
If you have been affected by bereavement, you may also be interested in reading our Bereavement Guide. Copies can be obtained from:
Impact Marketing & Publicity Ltd
116-118 Derby Road, Stapleford,
Nottingham, NG9 7AD
Tel: 0115 939 2090
www.impactonlife.com
Further information:
Advice and Information on Making a Will
Executors and Guardians
Financial Considerations When Making a Will
How to make a Will?
Inheritance Tax
Organ Donations, End of Life and Hospice Care
Planning Your Funeral
Special Types of Wills
Useful Contacts and Organisations
What happens if I die Intestate?
Why make a Will?
