Remember us in your will
Did you know:
We were the first UK charity to be verified as an Emergency Medical Team by the World Health Organization?
We have over 1500 expert health staff, including from the NHS, who can be at the frontline of a crisis within 24-48 hours?
We partner with national healthcare teams to strengthen their lasting response skills?
We run field hospitals, mobile health clinics and we have specialist trauma teams?
We are no ordinary charity. We are the best of the NHS at the worst of times.
In 1988, our founder Professor Sir Tony Redmond, led our first international response. Since then, according to the UN, the number of conflicts around our fragile world has doubled.
In 1988, Tony led a team of eight Manchester clinicians to Armenia, when a huge earthquake ripped through the north of the country; killing 60,000 people and destroying nearly half a million buildings. This was the charity’s very first international response, and paved the way for our future responses.
Over the next ten years, the team responded to a number of crises, including a cholera outbreak response in Cape Verde following the Pico Volcan eruption in 1995, as well as the siege of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995). In the Sarajevo trauma centre, UK-Med organised surgical teams to work supporting local staff in their management of war injuries.
In 1995, UK-Med was officially registered as a charity and continued its emergency responses across the world.
Our life-saving work today is funded by grants from governments and donations from the public.
But it is gifts in wills which will help us grow and sustain our frontline services, to be at the side of future communities experiencing crises and war.
The power of compassion
One individual can change change the world. Tony changed the world by founding UK-Med. Please consider joining that legacy and let UK-Med be there when it matters for the next 40+ years.
Will you help us with a gift in your will?
Your gift can be any affordable sum of money or % of your worth – from 1% to 100%..
Even 1% to UK Med will help and this ensures your family inherits 99%.
But some supporters like to leave us 5% or even 10%.
Whatever you can afford.
The only information needed by your will right is our registered charity name (UK-Med) and our registered charity number (1166956).
Want to learn more? Contact the fundraising team for more information.
Our gift in will promises
- We will not put pressure on you to give UK Med a gift in your will – it is your decision.
- We will never ask you the size or type of gift if you decide to support our work this way.
- We absolutely recognise your loved ones come first in your will.
- You never have to tell us your intentions – we respect your right to privacy but if you do let us know, then we can say thank you which we like to do.
- We fully understand that personal circumstances change and there might be a time when you must take UK Med out of your will
- We promise to use your gift wisely and prudently.