Octopus Legacy

We’re excited to announce our Autumn Campaign is now LIVE! 🎉 You may know Octopus Legacy as a free wills provider, offering online, over-the-phone, and in person will writing services. But did you know we also run a bi-annual legacy campaign? 📈 Since launching our first campaign back in January 2022, we’ve helped our charity partners increase the number of gifts through our service by 83%. Today we're launching our Autumn legacy campaign: Your will could do wonders, with 86 charities across the UK, such as ActionAid, World Vision, St Christopher's and The Scouts. The campaign is all about inspiring people to think about the positive impact a gift in their will can make, especially when it’s left to a charity doing great work they care about. The “Your will could do wonders” logo centres around a hand-drawn ‘will’, nodding to our ability to personalise this important document and make it your own. Alongside our tailored assets to help promote the campaign, we also help extend reach through our digital ads, affiliate partnerships, and corporate partnerships. 🐙 If you’d like to find out more about getting involved in our Spring 2025 campaign, email us at [email protected]

We’re proud to have been nominated for end of life planning's equivalent of the Oscars - The Will & Probate Awards - not once, but twice… We’ve been shortlisted for the: - 'Estate Planning Firm of the Year' Award - 'Innovation & Transformation of the Year' Award For us, planning for death is about more than just writing a will. From our internal tools that use AI to streamline the backend process, so that our expert teams can spend as much time as possible supporting customers, to our holistic approach that encourages our customers to share more than just money when they are planning for death. #BWAPAwards2024 Today's Wills & Probate

🗞️ Big news – we’re very proud to announce that Octopus Legacy is now officially a B Corp. We’re leading the way as the UK’s largest B Corporation certified estate planners. We were founded with a mission to ease some of the hardest times in a person’s life, by improving the process of planning for death and finding support after a loss. We do this by being more empathetic, more human, and providing a helping hand for people who need it – not creating a headache at an already difficult time. As an officially certified B Corporation, we join an amazing community of 2000 companies in the UK that do business differently: who care for their customers, the planet, and their communities on another level. To give an idea of how we got here – here are 8 things we’re really proud of (one for each tentacle). 🐙 We’ve helped over 300,000 people plan for death and find support after a loss – with a goal to help a million within the next year. We’ve saved families months of work, hundreds of pounds and stress when they need it the most. Our job is to give them space to focus on what is important.  🐙 Our team (comprising 60% women and people from a wide range of backgrounds), brings together unique personal and cultural experiences of loss that help us to make this tough time easier for our customers.  🐙We’re combining cutting-edge technology and a human approach to breathe life into estate planning and bereavement support.  🐙 Through our will writing services and campaigns, we've helped boost the legacy income for over 250 charity partners. 🐙 We’re proud to democratise access to estate planning through our bi-annual free will writing campaigns, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to build their legacy. 🐙 We have a team that doesn’t just deliver a service, but chooses to go above and beyond every day: whether that’s writing letters to customers, visiting customers’ homes to help them record videos for their loved ones, or providing emotional as well as practical support. 🐙 All team members have the opportunity to invest in the Octopus Group – we’re building this together, and are incentivised to deliver for our customers. 🐙 We may work in death – but we celebrate life too. In such a difficult space, we prioritise the emotional and practical support of our team by offering health insurance, bereavement support, opportunities to work from anywhere in the world for 4 weeks a year, unlimited holiday days and more. Want to come along for the journey of what we do next? Check out job positions open at Octopus Legacy here: https://lnkd.in/ejKArVcZ

What an incredible 2 days we've had at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Convention! We hope you all enjoyed it and came away with some golden nuggets of wisdom. It's safe to say our team had a blast meeting you all (and eating all the ice cream). Thank you to everyone who came to visit us! 🍦 One of the initiatives we ran during the Convention was a raffle. Congratulations to the winners: 💰 Giannina Walsh, Dementia UK - £500 towards a bucket list experience 🦑 Lindsay Allen, The Royal Ballet School - 3 months free partnership with Octopus Legacy 🍾 Holly Hughes, Children's Hospices Across Scotland (CHAS) - Bottle of Champagne 🥂 Rohan Hewavisenti, Amnesty International UK - Bottle of Champagne Attended the convention and want to chat more with our charity team? Connect with Joe Hearns, Dylan Burke, Katie Wimpenny or Suzanne Rowley on LinkedIn, or book a demo here today: https://lnkd.in/e6-p8_t2 #CIOFFC #giftsinwills #legacyfundraising

Day two of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising Convention is in full swing and we’re delighted to be offering free ice cream! Come down to the Churchill room, grab your favourite flavour and get the scoop on our services helping charities supercharge their legacy goals! #icecream #giftsinwills #legacyfundraising #ciof

What’s on your bucket list? Learning how to ski? A hot air balloon ride? Or getting Taylor Swift tickets? What may seem a dream today could be a reality tomorrow. We’re delighted to be sponsoring this year’s Chartered Institute of Fundraising Convention and we’ll be running a raffle where you could win £500 to help pay for your bucket list item. Come and visit us in the Churchill room to register!

Who needs Glastonbury when you have a rooftop, a BBQ and a group of amazing legacy fundraisers? 🍔 Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday at our first summer legacy networking event. We had a wonderful mix of people joining us, from those who were just starting their careers in legacy fundraising, to experts who had 10 years of experience. We love being part of such a special sector, and we hope everyone had a chance to connect, learn and celebrate together. Missed out this year? Don't worry, we plan on making this an annual event, bringing people (and tentacles) together. Comment an Octopus emoji below and we'll add you to the guest list for our next event 🐙 #legacyfundraising #networking

What do death and divorce have in common? It turns out – a lot.  1. Both are ‘taboo’ topics, despite being common parts of the human experience.  2. Both involve a rollercoaster grief journey. 3. Both involve a large amount of admin, when you need it the least. Learn more on how the worlds of death and divorce have more in common than you might think, some of the things you might want to think about if you’re going through a divorce, and more, on the latest episode of The Divorce Podcast with our founder Sam Grice, here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eFp4TgiW 

The Chartered Institute of Fundraising Convention kicks off in two weeks on the 3rd & 4th of July. We're proud to say we will be a Sponsor on both days, stationed in the Churchill Room on the ground floor at the QEII centre. After being highly commended at the Smee & Ford Awards in April for Digital Innovation in Legacy Giving, for our free will marketing campaigns, you will find us sponsoring the Strategy, Innovation & Income Generation track. There will be 5 industry talks per day around innovation in fundraising, which we'll be introducing. We also have loads of fun activities planned on each day, along with an array of freebies, so do come and join us and say hello! If you haven't got your ticket yet, don't worry - there are still some available, but ticket sales end this Friday, so be quick! 👇 https://lnkd.in/eUrRiBKM

Father’s Day can be a powerful way of celebrating the Dads in our lives. But for those of us who have lost Dads, lost children or are longing to become a Dad, it can be an emotional and isolating day. Knowing how to support the people grieving on Father’s Day can be tricky, sometimes this means we avoid the conversation altogether. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a hard conversation. Don’t avoid it. Start the conversation by asking them “What’s the best thing I can do for you this Father’s Day?” We asked this question to people who have been through it themselves. Scroll to read their tips on ways to support someone who is grieving this Father’s Day. Big thanks go out to... 💜 @afuathescot 💜 @lottebowser 💜 @maine_thoughts & @thinkingoutloudpod_ 💜 @carldonnelly 💜 @kaewsuppamas 💜 @richspalding11 💜 @gaiafamilyofficial for sharing the best way to support them this Father’s Day. Check out the link below to learn more about what to say to someone grieving on Father’s Day, on our blog.