Leave a gift in your Will

Your legacy will help rebuild lives

Your legacy will be . . .
The advice work that helps a person seeking asylum to access safe accomodation and navigate the asylum system.

Your legacy will be . . .
The weekly community meal that enables a person seeking asylum to make friends and feel less isolated.

Your legacy will be . . .
The volunteering support that enables a person seeking asylum to gain skills and experience of a UK workplace.

Your legacy will be . . .
The advice and wellbeing support that helps a family who have fled war or persecution to rebuild their lives in Bristol.

Your legacy will change lives.

What is a Legacy?

A legacy is a special gift left in your Will that will provide crucial funding to help refugees and asylum seekers in the Bristol area have brighter futures. Through the security of legacy donations, we will be able to ensure that we can continue to welcome refugees and asylum seekers to Bristol and provide them with vital support when they need it most.

All gifts, whatever size, give us critical support. Because it is a gift to charity, a legacy is also exempt from tax, so may reduce the amount of inheritance tax for which your estate is liable.

With your help today, we can help more refugees, asylum seekers and people with insecure immigration status to positively build their lives in the UK.

How do I leave a gift in my Will?

To find out more about leaving a gift in your will, please contact

You can also talk to your solicitor if you have one.

Download our Will-making Guide for all the information you need to leave a legacy gift to us.

If you are updating your will, you will need to download our Codicil Form.

“Supporting refugees and asylum seekers in Bristol will be my legacy; it costs nothing during my lifetime but will have a powerful impact in the future.”
– Carol, Bristol Refugee Rights Supporter

Tesfay’s Story

Tesfay arrived in Bristol with little English language, no knowledge of the culture or what he had to do to live and work legally in the UK.  He had fled the harsh military conscription of Eritrea and left behind his parents and siblings. Somebody he met in Bristol told him about BRR.

The advice team helped him to put in a claim for asylum.  He started to attend weekly ESOL classes. He became a member volunteer helping to welcome new people seeking asylum to Bristol Refugee Rights. Within a year he was granted leave to remain.  He continued with ESOL classes and looked for external opportunities.  He volunteered with a church group and then got a temporary job as kitchen porter.  The references from his volunteering roles with BRR were important. After lots of small jobs to earn money and online courses to improve his knowledge he managed to get a job with the local authority and then with at an NHS hospital in Bristol where he was awarded a diploma in mental health and social care.

He said, “BRR helped me to learn English, they helped me with my asylum claim; they provided me with the building blocks to further my education, to get a job and a home and be able to contribute to my new community.”

By leaving us a gift in your will, large or small, you will transform the lives of people escaping persecution, helping them to rebuild their lives in Bristol. Thank you.