Family on the bridge to the Mezzanine in the National Motor Museum

Legacy Gifts

 Leaving a gift in your will helps fund our work, opening worlds, minds, and possibilities.

As the world’s first national motor museum, we were created and are shaped by a love of motoring. We believe the spirit of motoring should be preserved, promoted, and shared. As an independent charity, the National Motor Museum has no core government funding, leaving a gift in your will helps fund our work, opening worlds, minds, and possibilities. 

 

group of school children in the Austin Twelve Clifton with museum and replica red routemaster bus in background

The impact your future gift can have

Your gift will generate more opportunities for more people, younger people, and for different people, to become involved with motoring heritage. 

Your gift helps shape our ambition to establish a Learning Hub: a place where schools, colleges, community groups, young people and life-long learners can become immersed in motoring history and develop Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematical (STEAM) skills

Museum Workshop

Keep heritage skills alive

Your legacy will support the establishment of a Heritage Vehicle Workshop where fast-disappearing heritage skills can be passed on to future generations of automotive apprentices and motoring enthusiasts. 

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Help create a vibrant museum

Your gift helps to redevelop the museums’ infrastructure to enable vibrant, constantly changing programmes of renewed, interactive displays, new temporary exhibition spaces, and an accessible vehicle experience.

Collections Centre Concept

Open up our Collections Centre

Thanks to your legacy gift, we can reimagine our Collections Centre as a dynamic collections resource: the Motoring Heritage Institute. Open to all: researchers, students and visitors will have unprecedented access to previously hidden treasures in our internationally acclaimed collections to further motoring knowledge and technological advances.

Motorsports And Formula One

Help us reflect contemporary motoring

Be part of developing our internationally significant Designated Collections to reflect the contemporary story of motoring and its continuing influence on popular culture, including architecture, fashion, design, music, film and literature.

National Motor Museums Promise to You 

  • Your will is personal, and we will never ask you to tell us your decision. Although, we’d love to have the opportunity to say thank you.
  • We understand your loved ones or those closest to you will always come first.
  • We will never put you under any pressure.  When the time is right to remember us, it’s your decision to make in your own time.
  • If you choose to add the National Motor Museum to your will, we will use your future gift carefully, so it achieves the greatest impact for the initiatives we work on.
  • You can change your mind at any time.

Your legacy gift questions answered

To add the National Motor Museum to your will you will need our name and address and registered charity number. The solicitor or professional Will writing provider will these need these details to ensure your gift reaches us.

How to add a gift in your will

To add the National Motor Museum to your will you will need our name and address and registered charity number

I give to the National Motor Museum Trust of Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, SO42 7ZN, registered charity number 1107656, _______% of the residue of my estate OR £____________________  [specified amount] 

The solicitor or professional Will writing provider will these need these details to ensure your gift reaches us:

Charity name: National Motor Museum Trust

Charity address: Beaulieu, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, SO42 7ZN

Charity number: 1107656

For further information, please contact our Development Assistant on tel: 01590 614615, or email.

Information for Executors

If you are administering an estate for the National Motor Museum, or have any questions about adding a gift in will, please contact Helen Merrill, Development Assistant on Tel: 01590 614615, or email helen.merrill@beaulieu.co.uk


We would love to say thank you if you have left a gift in will or are intending to do so.

A residuary gift, a fixed amount or a specific gift. A residuary gift is a percentage or share of the balance of your estate once all other payments and gifts have been made. Many people prefer to give a residuary gift because it keeps in line with inflation and does not lose value over time. Even 1% makes a difference. A specific gift is a gift of a specific item or gift, like personal possessions, land, shares, vehicles, motoring memorabilia etc.

Yes, at the moment, if you leave a gift to the National Motor Museum in your will it will not be included when valuing your estate for Inheritance Tax purposes. The value of your gift will be deducted from your estate before Inheritance Tax is applied. However, Inheritance Tax rules can change so it is best to discuss your will and the type of gift you might like to leave with your solicitor.

Thomas Hindson Kelly

Thomas Hinson Kelly

Thank you to Tom’s family for their legacy gift where the 1989 Classic Jaguar was auctioned with the proceeds going to help fund the museums’ preservation, conservation and learning programmes.

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Ford Anglia headlight and bumper detail

Richard Clark

Thanks to Richard Clark, whose much-loved 1929 Citroen was lovingly restored by friends, family and colleagues over a 40-year period, his legacy gift is help fund the heritage skills initiative.

‘Motoring moves us. Freedom, adventure, further, faster. The story of motoring is the story of us, and our world.’