HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED LETTING YOUR SUPPORT LIVE ON?
If you are a supporter of our work and believe like us, that all children and young people deserve to live in a safe, supportive environment where they learn to engage with, and positively contribute to, the world around them then perhaps you have considered letting your support live on with a gift in your will.
After you have provided for your family and loved ones, you might consider leaving a gift that can help to build a better future for children and young people.
THE POWER OF A LEGACY TO BURDEKIN
Leaving a gift in your will can have a huge impact on our work, allowing us to plan for the future and respond with resilience to change in circumstances or unforeseen challenges.
We are funded to provide the core requirements such as shelter, food, clothing, pocket money, phone credit etc, we require additional funding to provide a range of targeted support, designed to guide young people to fully functional adulthood, overcoming the challenges and disadvantages they have experienced. Your support closes the gap in opportunity so that young people can positively contribute to their community and economy.
A legacy gift could change the course of a life by ensuring that education, employment, healthcare and housing remain accessible regardless of circumstances. If there is a particular area of our work that you are passionate about, we would be delighted to discuss how your legacy can create a long-lasting and powerful impact.
Your legacy will help us to:
- Tackle youth homelessness.
- Build a better future for children and young people.
- Provide support beyond their basic needs.
- Create a lasting solution.
- Make the world a fairer place for everyone to live.
- Enable your support to live on.
WHY YOUNG PEOPLE?
- Around 38,300 Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) clients (or 14% of all clients) in 2022-2023 were young people presenting alone.
- Living alone was the most common living arrangement - 15,882.
- The rate of young people presenting alone receiving SHS support was 14.7 per 10,000 nationally in 2022-23.
- 73% of young people presenting alone were not enrolled in any form of education or training at the start of the support.
- 3 in 5 (61%) had previously been assisted by a SHS agency at some point since July 2011.
- Nationally, approximately 46,200 children were in out-of-home care at 30 June 2021 – a rate of 8 per 1,000 children.
- In NSW approximately 15,895 children were in out-of-home care at a rate of 8.9 per 1,000 children.
- In 2020–21, about 4,500 Indigenous children were admitted to out-of-home care at a rate of 13 per 1,000 Indigenous children.
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WHY THE BURDEKIN ASSOCIATION?
One of the reasons we have been successfully providing support services to young people since 1987 is our ability to provide additional support services outside our core program areas which include Brokerage, Outreach and Prevention.
We directly support children, young people, their families and the community with the aim of preventing homelessness through intervention strategies that look to address the key risk factors that can result in homelessness, such as family breakdown, disengagement from education, mental illness and drug and alcohol abuse.
In the space of a decade, Burdekin has supported 3,140 young people and their families. 94% are engaged in education or employment.
We supported 246 children, young people and/or family members in the financial year 2021/22.
In the 2020 to 2021 financial year we increased our capacity by 600 percent!
TESTIMONIALS
"The work you (and team) are doing looks amazing. A big congratulations to all involved. Keep doing what you are doing as it inspires and gives hope to many."
Mr John Pradel, Director, SJB Architects
“Just wanted to say a huge thanks for all of your help this year. It has really made a difference.”
Parent supported by Burdekin
"The most caring and supportive bunch, definitely happy with everything that’s happened."
Female, 21
WHY LEGACY GIVING?
Online will-writing platforms such as our partner Gathered Here have grown from having just 80 wills written and one gift pledged in it's first week of operation in late 2020 to almost 40,000 wills written via their platform and an estimated $460 million pledged to date.
This increase was in part due to the pandemic and the restrictions of lockdowns coupled with the consideration of our own mortality. Post-pandemic donor demographics have changed and online will-writing makes it much easier and affordable for people to make a will and support a cause they care about – hopefully Burdekin!
Increasingly, we are faced with the challenge of doing more with less as the cost-of-living crisis significantly impacts the amount and frequency of donor giving – people can’t give what they don’t have. Additionally, we are faced with the escalating needs of those accessing our service – again due to the cost-of-living crisis.
THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
Legacy giving as a fundraising source allows charities such as ours to ask donors to consider leaving a gift in their will - it's free, it's quick, it's relatively easy and it won't cost you anything now but your donation will have an impact on future generations - what's not to love?
CREATE A WILL WITH OUR PARTNER GATHERED HERE
We invite you to create a FREE will with our partner Gathered Here, with no obligation to leave a gift. However, if you are considering leaving a gift to The Burdekin Association, after you have provided for your family and loved ones, we will gladly accept and thank you on behalf of the children and young people we support. There are generally three options to choose from:
- A residual gift - a percentage of your remaining estate.
- A pecuniary gift - a fixed sum of money.
- A specified gift - an asset or shares.
If you have already made a gift let us know! We would love to hear about it and thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
HOW TO LEAVE A BEQUEST IN YOUR WILL
Your solicitor will have the most up-to-date advice. For bequests we suggest including the following clause in your will:
“I BEQUEATH to The Burdekin Association Inc. (ABN 98 571 551 434) of Suites 6 & 7, 2 Victor Road, Brookvale, NSW 2100, Australia, for the general purpose of The Burdekin Association [insert here the sum of the bequest or a statement defining the bequest] free of all duties and taxes payable at my death AND I DECLARE that the receipt of the Treasurer for the time being of The Burdekin Association shall be a sufficient discharge to my Trustee(s).”
THE BURDEKIN ASSOCIATION BEQUEST FAQS
What should I include in my bequest?
Will I get acknowledgement?
Do I need to leave a large gift in my will?
How can I ensure my will is legally binding?
Do I have to tell my family about my gift?
contact us for help
For more information on The Burdekin Association prior to deciding, or for those with further questions about leaving bequests, please reach out to us.
