Inheritance Recovery Specialists
Iheritec are pleased to partner with Smee & Ford and Legacy Futures to sponsor the 2026 Legacy Giving Awards. The Legacy Giving Awards celebrate the talent, dedication, and achievements of UK legacy giving professionals — and highlight the vital impact gifts in wills have on charities.
Now in its fourth year, the Awards are a unique celebration of the dedicated professionals and teams working in, and with, the legacy giving sector. They provide an essential voice for legacy giving, helping to raise the profile of legacy professionals within their own charities, whilst also providing a platform to benchmark the achievements made through collaboration, innovation, and excellence across the sector.
Inheritec – Working with charities to recover orphaned legacies
Inheritec was established in 2024 with a clear and compelling purpose: to reunite rightful beneficiaries with lost or unclaimed assets.
Many people decide to leave a specific gift to charity in their will and it is estimated that 6.6% of wills relating to deaths in England & Wales in 2023 mentioned at least one charity in the will. Others decide to leave the residue of their estate to charity. Unfortunately, during administration of an estate assets can be missed, these being unknown to the executors and beneficiaries.
Inheritec’s aim is to provide a customer-focused service that makes it easier for beneficiaries to navigate the complex processes of unlocking lost assets. Inheritec uses its in-house proprietary systems along with its data analytics team to analyse multiple complex data sets to identify assets which have become orphaned and repatriate them with the rightful beneficiaries.
In 2025 Inheritec:
• Identified £1.81m outstanding to charities across 61 charities, with more assets being located all the time through our ongoing analysis.
• Encouraged and worked with Solicitors and Executors to reopen closed cases to deliver missed bequests to charities.
• Increased the value of one estate where all funds were due to charities by additional £17,000 in through locating investment accounts, delivering lost charitable funds of £160,291.55 to 13 Charities