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Leave a legacy

Leave a gift in your will to ensure future generations can enjoy the RPO's music too.

About leaving a legacy

Legacy gifts

Your gift will ensure future generations can enjoy the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's music that brought you happiness during your lifetime. Every gift in every will, however large or small makes a real difference.

Thank you for your gift during your lifetime. Your gift can remain anonymous or you can tell us about it and we will welcome you into the RPO 1946 Club.

Orchestra standing on stage at Cadogan Hall

Who should I contact about leaving a gift to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra?

If you would like to include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in your will, download and fill in our Pledge form above. Alternatively, please contact Imogen Baker, Individual Giving Manager and she will be very happy to talk you through what is a very straightforward process.

By email

bakeri@rpo.co.uk

Lasting legacy

Leave a gift in your will

It is very easy to leave a gift to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in your will; you can make a gift of a specific sum (Pecuniary Legacy) or leave a percentage of your estate (Residuary Legacy). If you already have a will, it’s very straightforward to add a Codicil (amendment) to include the Orchestra as one of your beneficiaries.

Cadogan Hall - Tim Lutton

Leave a gift in your will

Join the RPO 1946 Club

The RPO 1946 Club is only open to supporters who have arranged to leave a gift to the Orchestra in their will. Membership is free of charge, and as well as being acknowledged in the Orchestra’s concert programmes, club members are invited to a designated RPO ‘legacy’ concert and reception each year. 

You are absolutely under no obligation to tell us, but if you have already arranged to leave a gift to the Orchestra in your will, please do let us know so that we can thank you and enrol you as a member of the RPO 1946 Club.

Royal Albert Hall interior

RPO 1946 Club

Philip Back

Ian Campbell

Huw and Kate Davies

Roderick Davies

Sir Peter Ellwood CBE DL

Charles and Monica Eve

Anne Fergusson

Karen Fletcher

Robin and Heather Hammerton

Sir Ewan Harper CBE

John Hawley

Andrew Hunter

Gillian May King

Jan Knight

Beverley LeBlanc

Sir Tom McKillop

Paul and Carole Nicholson

Jackie Sibley

Anne Vadgama

Nick and Pat Whitley

James Williams and Edward Lidster

Anonymous members

Thank you

to Mrs Joan Constable from the RPO

During her lifetime, Joan Constable became an enthusiastic member of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s community of followers. Joan and her husband Peter were regular attendees of the RPO’s concerts in their home county of Northampton and loved coming to the Orchestra’s Royal Albert Hall concerts on special occasions. They derived so much pleasure from the RPO that, as a way of saying ‘thank you’, Joan arranged to leave a gift to the Orchestra in her will, to help ensure that others can experience the thrill of hearing the RPO live onstage. Joan sadly passed away in 2012, but her legacy has enabled the Orchestra to deliver a series of family concerts and underpin other artistic objectives around the UK.

Mrs Joan Constable

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