Supporting your Society now and in the future!

My lawyer daughter, Rosie, who once worked briefly in the BSACI office, tells me that it is a crime to die intestate. Confronting one’s own mortality is rarely pleasant, but is necessary for the benefit of those left behind. Making a will is best done early, with expert advice.

Glenis Scadding Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Infection and Immunity at University College London

Leaving bequests to charities is a good way to be happily remembered and is tax efficient. The gift itself is taxfree and charitable gifts can reduce inheritance tax payable on the rest of your estate. If you give at least 10% of your taxable estate to charity, the inheritance tax rate for the remainder falls from 40 to 36%.

As a charity, the BSACI receives no money from government but relies on the support of members and sponsors in order to carry out our objectives to improve allergy care via education, training and research. Having grown from a small organisation run by Sue Duff part-time in her spare bedroom – we now have our own office, over 1000 members, an excellent journal, meetings and guidelines which are highly respected worldwide. Our staff now number 9 and soon to be 10 and all are working hard. We need to build on this firm base: producing further guidelines, increasing the size of our meeting whilst maintaining its scientific and clinical validity, continuing to educate allergy and immunology trainees and primary care practitioners and helping to support the National Allergy Strategy Group. In order to accomplish all this, we need guaranteed future funding.

Previous legacies have enabled us to have named lectures, these not only educate, but also remind us of our history and of old friends.

With this in mind, I would like to make an appeal for your help. If you have thought about leaving money to a charity in your will, perhaps you might consider a legacy to the BSACI? A pledge of your continuing support would safeguard the Society’s aims and help us to plan for the future with confidence.

Please email fiona@bsaci.org for more details about leaving a legacy to BSACI. Whatever type of legacy you may decide to leave to the BSACI, it would be very gratefully received.

Online learning and development

Webinars and Grand Rounds

Our webinars are organised by the BSACI Council with the aim of offering high quality, conveniently accessible education on key allergy topics for our members. The speakers are all experts in their respective fields. Webinars take place every two months, usually on the last Monday at 5pm. If you have any ideas for future topics, would like to deliver a session or have any feedback about previous sessions, please get in touch with Dinusha Chandratilleke on info@bsaci.org

Grand Rounds are organised by the BSACI Paediatric Allergy Committee (PAC) and are held every month. Each session will begin with an interactive journal club followed by case presentations including Q&A session.

BSACI members can attend the live Webinars and Grand Rounds or access the recordings after the event. To do this, log in to your BSACI account at www.bsaci.org/account/ - click on Education and Events and select Webinars or Grand Rounds from the dropdown menu.