Leaving a Legacy

Ensuring the future

If you supported and enjoyed Cheltenham’s Festivals by attending a morning concert at the glorious Pittville Pump Room, meeting and listening to your favourite authors, watching your children perform in an education project at the Jazz Festival, or taking your grandchildren along to the Discover Zone at the Science Festival, you may like to play another important part by leaving a legacy to ensure their future.

Supporting our work with a legacy is one of the best possible ways you can become involved with the festivals.

“Your will could help to safeguard the tradition of artistic excellence in Cheltenham for the enjoyment of future generations” —Dame Judi Dench, President, Cheltenham Festivals

How to leave a legacy, next steps…

We are happy to talk in confidence offering guidance and advice — you can email our patrons and legacy manager (full contact details listed below)

Useful things to know about us:

• Our charity number: 251765
• Our registered office: 28, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1RH
• Our business address: 109 Bath Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7LS

We’ve put together a useful information sheet to download — PDF (9.3mb)

For further information, please contact us in confidence

If you would like to know more about how your legacy could play a vital part in the future of Cheltenham Festivals or further details of the Leonora Society please contact our Legacy Manager by telephone 01242 775858 or use our postal address below:

Nicola Lawson
Leonora Society Manager
Cheltenham Festivals
109 Bath Road
Cheltenham
GL53 7LS
nicola.lawson@cheltenhamfestivals.com

 

Additional contacts and online help

Looking around the internet we’ve put together a few useful links that offer sound help and practical advice:

• The Law Society
• Solicitors for the Elderly
• Solicitors online
• Institute of Professional Willwriters
• Patrick Wise — The Legacy Man

The Leonora Society, recognising and thanking individuals

The Leonora Society is a new scheme which has been introduced to recognise, involve and thank individuals who have generously told us of their legacy intentions during their lifetime.

Special benefits as a member of the Leonora Society:

• An invitation to a special annual donors’ event hosted by our Chief Executive and Artistic Directors
• A copy of the festivals annual review
• Invitations to festival events relevant to your interest
• An annual newsletter

The society is named after the very first piece of music to be heard at the first annual Cheltenham Music Festival, on the 13th June 1945. The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Basil Cameron opened the concert with Beethoven’s Leonora Overture No 3.

This festival performance marked the beginning not only of the Cheltenham Music Festival but was also the first ever Cheltenham Festivals’ performance as the other three festivals developed from this point, the Literature Festival opening in 1949, the Jazz Festival in 1996 and the Science Festival in 2002.