Protect Your Wealth

by Michael Fogg

As we move into 2022, and with a third year of Covid-19 restrictions still in force in some form or other, I have been refl ecting on the positives to come out of an otherwise dreadful situation.

Firstly, it is undoubtedly the case that the pandemic has caused people to think diff erently about each other. PostBrexit Britain has become increasingly polarised, and intolerant of the viewpoint of others. Obvious examples of this intolerance can be seen in the often stongly held views on overseas aid and inward migration on a ‘macro’ level, and on devolution and regional housing development on a more ‘micro’ or regional level.

However, at a local level, we have seen extraordinarily caring behaviour towards each other – whether that is helping our neighbours by asking if they want anything from the shops (or taking in parcels for each other on the increasingly rare occasions that no-one is home when the delivery arrives!) to keeping in touch with each other to prevent loneliness setting in.

Likewise, the role of the NHS has become increasingly important to us all, as everyone now is likely to know someone who has had need of their services over the past two years. There are reportedly over 600,000 operations waiting to be performed in Wales alone, and the waiting lists continue to grow.

Key amongst those critical patients are those who have some form of cancer which requires treatment for the symptoms or, if possible, the underlying causes of the disease. In Cardiff , Professor Awen Gallimore at Cardiff University is working hard on this. Her lab team is focused on using the immune system to tackle cancer and kill tumours from within. But, of course, this is work which can only be completed with funding to support it.

Late in 2021, I was delighted to receive an email from Cancer Research UK to confi rm that they had selected Trusting Willpower to work as a partner fi rm with them to off er free standard Wills to anyone over the age of 18 living in England & Wales. There is no requirement to leave a gift to Cancer Research UK in your Will if you take advantage of this off er, but any money you do leave to them after you are gone would help to support their critical work.

Professor Gallimore’s research project is only one of the projects you could contribute to by leaving a gift in your Will to Cancer Research UK.

Still focussing on our city, Cardiff has also been recognised for its world-class research into acute myeloid leukaemia. Professor Alan Burnett led the UK national trials in this disease for more than 20 years, which have now become the world’s biggest trials for this cancer type.

The breakthroughs being made in Cardiff are only possible thanks to the generosity of Cancer Research UK supporters. Cancer Research UK funds over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses across the UK. More than 27,000 people join their clinical trials each year and help develop new ways to beat cancer.

More than a third of Cancer Research UK projects are funded by gifts left in Wills. Whether it’s a small sum of money or a holiday home in the Bahamas, legacies breathe life into researchers’ work. They enable long-term research projects that lead to new treatments and continue to save lives for generations to come.

Gifts in Wills breathe life into researchers’ work by funding over a third of their life-saving research. Legacies enable long-term research projects that allow scientists to achieve breakthroughs every day. Each breakthrough inspires the next until the day comes when, as Cancer Research UK intend, everyone survives cancer.

Cancer Research UK has made a pledge to their supporters. 82p in every £1 they receive goes towards funding vital research like Professor Gallimore’s, while the other 18p helps raise more funds to support research.

In the past 40 years, survival has doubled in part thanks to Cancer Research UK’s pioneering research, funded by the generosity of their supporters. Cancer Research UK is committed to ensuring 3 in 4 people in the UK who are diagnosed with cancer survive their disease for 10 years or more by 2034. None of this will be possible without the help of their supporters.

Contacting Me If you would like any help or advice on anything mentioned above, or would like to take advantage of a free standard Will through our new partnership with Cancer Research UK, please get in touch at any point.

You can contact me on 029 2021 1693, by emailing TrustingWillpower@outlook.com, or by visiting our website: www.TrustingWillpower.co.uk