{"id":618392,"date":"2026-10-02T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618392\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:32:08","slug":"gary-rycrofts-top-tips-for-free-wills-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/618392\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Rycroft&#8217;s top tips for Free Wills Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">October is Free Wills Month! <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You can sign up for a free will <a href=\"https:\/\/freewillsmonth.org.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here, external<\/a>. You put in your name, email address and select some charities close to your heart, then you&#8217;ll be put in contact with one of the firms of solicitors taking part in a Free Wills Month campaign and you can request an appointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The solicitor will help to draw up a will that accurately reflects your wishes with no charge!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is a first come first served scheme with limited availability, but if you miss out on a slot, they&#8217;ll be running the scheme again in March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, many charities run free will schemes throughout the year &#8211; just search for a charity that&#8217;s close to your heart and make sure you check the solicitor you&#8217;ve been paired with is registered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sra.org.uk\/consumers\/register\/\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here, external<\/a> in England and Wales, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawscot.org.uk\/find-a-solicitor\/\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here, external<\/a> in Scotland, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lawsoc-ni.org\/using-a-solicitor\/find-a-solicitor\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here, external<\/a> in Northern Ireland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"October is Free Wills Month! You can sign up for a free will here, external. You put in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-618392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}