Support our vital work by leaving a gift in your Will

We are Coram – the first children’s charity, helping hundreds of thousands of children, young people and families every year.

You could create better chances for generations of children by leaving a gift in your Will

Having a Will ensures your wishes for your money, property and possessions will be followed when you are gone. As well as planning for the needs of your family and loved ones, you can also help future generations of children who need Coram’s help.

Coram offers two free Wills services to our supporters to write or update their Wills:

How your support helps

Coram brings together community volunteers and schools, to support children with their reading. A gift in your Will could provide one-to-one reading support for a child in order to help become confident, independent readers. Your help means we can be there to provide better chances for children and young people.

For over 50 years, we have run our Coram Beanstalk reading helpers programme. In this time, we have supported over 250,000 primary children with their reading. By including Coram in your Will you will change children’s lives for the better, like Nikolai.

Nikolai’s story

Nikolai was from Bulgaria and had not uttered a word to the teacher or any of his classmates in the weeks following his arrival at the school. I chose simple books with colourful pictures as I wasn’t sure he understood English. However, it was very obvious they bored him so I decided to try a book geared more to his age group. The Danger Gang, by Tom Fletcher, is a very amusing book and he started giggling from the very first page… he understood English very well indeed!

Over the course of the next few weeks we started by reading alternate lines then every other page until at last he was fluently reading page after page after page… he had just been afraid to speak. By the end of the second term, Nikolai had become firm friends with one of the other boys I read with that year. He joined the football kick about in the playground and he started answering questions in class. One afternoon the teacher came rushing out to tell me how thrilled she was with Nikolai’s progress since he started reading with me and how many other teachers had commented on his transformation, Of course it wasn’t just down to our two half hour sessions each week but I do think that the one-to-one support gave him the confidence to come out of his shell and fully participate in school life.

– Irene Duffy, Reading Helper

Watch our short video about Beanstalk below.

"Making a Will is vital for anyone who wants certainty as to how their estate passes when the time comes. Without one, you cannot choose who administers and benefits from your estate."

Andrew Bird, Associate Solicitor at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP specialising in Wills

For nearly 300 years, Coram’s mission has been to create better chances for children. Now and forever.

With the help of gifts in Wills, we can achieve our vision of a world in which all children can have the best possible chance in life.

Find out more about our Gifts in Wills service and dedicated support team here. You can also contact our Gifts in Wills Manager, Rachael on rachael@coram.org.uk or 020 752 0306 with any queries you have.