Memorials

Setting up the Memorial Page

Thank you for choosing Charlies Gift for your memorial donations.

Funding raised through Charlie’s Gift memorial donations will reach those within our older community who financial support to enable optimal palliative and end of life care.

It is our mission that the older community of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie will pass this world without pain or suffering and with dignity and peace of mind that they are not alone. It is also our mission that those who wish to pass at home will be enabled to do so.

Making a Memorial Page to Charlies Gift

Please choose one of our template styles:

  1. Ella
  2. Hank
  3. Michael
  4. Mary

You can click here to submit online or email your choice to Shelly Spalding (click here) with:

  • a photo,
  • details you want on the Memorial page (ie, name, dates,)
  • a short descriptive paragraph

A memorial page will then be set up for you within 24 hours.  A hard copy will be forwarded to you upon request.

Making a Memorial Donation to Charlies Gift

If you would like to make a donation in lieu of flowers for a loved one. Please click here to submit.

Arrange a Charity Bequest Donation

A charitable bequest is a financial gift set up through a will donated to a charity or not for profit, such as Charlie’s Gift Fund Incorporated. All bequeaths received by Charlie’s Gift Fund Incorporated will go towards community assistive programs, end of life care, as well as financial assistance to ensure that the ageing community of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie are protected, supported and valued.

If you wish to bequeath a donation to the Charlie’s Gift Charity Fund, you may like to include the following statement in your Will:

I GIVE AND BEQUEATH the following legacies:-

(a)      The sum of            dollars ($     ) to the (CHARLIE’S GIFT FUND INCORPORATED) to be used in such manner as may be determined by the said ( CHARLIE’S GIFT FUND INCORPORATED).             OR

(b)      The sum of       dollars ($     ) to the (CHARLIE’S GIFT FUND INCORPORATED) for the general purposes thereof. 

I DECLARE that the receipt of the Secretary for the time being of the said (CHARLIE’S GIFT FUND INCORPORATED) shall be a full and sufficient discharge to my Trustee for the payment of this legacy and my Trustee shall not be required to see to the application hereof.

Click here for information on how to set up a Charitable Bequest

Make a memorial donation

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Colin Leonard Watson

In Colin’s own words he was just a simple South Sea Islander from Aotearoa. A philosophy he took with him into a career spanning three decades in the IT industry and a lifetime of leisure hours enjoying just about every known water sport. A kind and generous husband, father and grandfather whose wry humour, cheeky grin and easy laugh will be remembered but sadly missed.

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