• Donations

As Help Animals is a charity under Belgian law (ASBL), not subsidized by the state, it can only rely on its members. However small, your donations are essential for the association to survive.

If, at the end of the year, the total amount of your donations is equal to or exceeds 40€ (excepting membership fees) you will receive a fiscal attestation during the month of March of the following year. 

                  Mr. Jean-Jacques Pegorer

         Think of animals when making your will

Help Animals is a not-for-profit organisation (ASBL), founded in 1981 to help unfortunate animals and to promote their rights. The charity is recognised by the authorities to be in the public interest. The Ministry of Agriculture has approved our shelter (law of 1986 on animal protection and welfare) and, furthermore, the Ministry of Finance has granted tax-deductible status to any donations made to us.

 Help Animals is exclusively funded through charitable donations from its donors (donations, gifts, legacies) and does not receive any funds from the state.

Your donations may take various forms: cash donations, bank transfers or donations in kind (useful items, pet food or supplies, precious objects, share certificates, ...). Money donations are deductible from your taxable income (attestation and information available on request).

You can also support our organisation through a deed of gift, which is a notarised instrument by which a person donates something (e.g. a property), during his or her lifetime, to the association. Our tax-deductible status allows us to pay gift tax at a reduced rate (your notary will be able to advise you).

However, you can also - and especially – support animal welfare through your legacies, i.e. through a provision in your will, at no cost to you. Help Animals is entitled to receive different types of legacies: general legacies, specific legacies (of a designated item),  legacies related to a share of a succession... Thanks to its fiscal status, Help Animals will only pay a reduced amount of inheritance tax (each Region is now allowed to fix its own rate. By way of example, in the Brussels Region, Help Animals enjoys a favourable inheritance tax rate of 12,5 %.)

Given the complexity of each and everyone's situation, your notary will always be the most appropriate person to counsel you. He or she will be able to tell you, in an independent and objective manner, about all options available bearing in mind your personal and family situation (presence of heirs entitled to a reserved share of the estate, …). You will also be advised on the formal requirements that need to be complied with (hand-written will deposited with your notary who will ensure its registration, or will recorded by way of a notarial instrument ...).

The notary will also advise you on whether you should consider appointing an executor of the will, or whether you need to add a medical certificate to your will to further guarantee its effectiveness

Bear in mind that, for a simple hand-written will to be valid, it needs to be entirely written out by hand (not typed), dated and signed, and it will need to clearly set out your property after death (in practice, you are very strongly advised to consult your notary, especially as such consultations are generally not very costly).

 If you don't know any notaries, Help Animals can give you the name of several competent notaries who are also aware of animal rights causes.

 Donations and legacies are absolutely indispensable to Help Animal's survival, as they provide us with the financial resources needed to keep up our relentless daily struggle in favour of animals.

For more specific information on issues related to inheritance matters and legacies, please don't hesitate to contact the Vice-President, M. Jean-­Jacques PEGORER, in charge of legal matters in our organisation. 

For the board of directors of HELP ANIMALS. J.J. PEGORER - Vice-President