About Smee & Ford

Smee & Ford is part of Wilmington Publishing & Information Ltd, a division of the Wilmington Group Plc.

Established for over 100 years, Smee & Ford provide a range of services to charities to assist them in generating legacy income. Our legacy notification services  ensure that charities receive timely information on specific legacies left to them, or notification of money left in wills or trusts for unspecified charitable purposes. Our dedicated and highly skilled team of reporters read over 5,000 wills every week to ensure that our clients benefit from the most up-to-date information.

We also provide other services including specialist training, research and consultancy to assist charities in developing relationships with their stakeholders and formulating legacy marketing plans.

Other services include Mortascreen, the leading mortality suppression file, to the direct marketing community and HALO, the leading deceased identity fraud prevention product to the financial services industry.

In addition to Smee & Ford services, Wilmington Publishing and Information Ltd publish a range of information for charities and companies working with charities under the following brand names:

CaritasData specialises in analysing the financial performance of UK charities and other not-for-profit organisations, including the UK’s universities, further education colleges, independent schools and housing associations.

The CaritasData database contains detailed financial and non-financial information on the largest charities in the UK, ranked by income, expenditure and funds. Updated and tracked over a number of years by a dedicated team of analysts, the database powers CharitiesDirect, CharityFinancials and a range of Insights products and it is widely regarded by charity professionals and advisers as the most trusted source of financial information on the Third Sector.

A range of directories and magazines are also published by CaritasData, including Top 3,000 Charities, Charity Market Monitor, Top 1,000 Charities in Scotland, Who’s Who in Charities, Caritas Magazine and Charity Funding Report.

Now in its 22nd year and available in print and online, Charity Choice is widely recognised as the leading directory of UK charities. It is a trusted and proven source of generating legacies and donations for charities of all sizes.

Charitychoice.co.uk has been online since 1998. Updated daily, the website has a proven track record in helping members of the public to find a charity to donate to or leave a legacy to. The website also contains Charity Choice Online Donation Service and Goodwill Gallery which allow donors to donate money, goods and time to charity. Charities can also post a request for goods or services.

Three Charity Choice print products - Charity Choice UK, Charity Choice Scotland and Charity Choice Northern Ireland - are published annually and circulated to solicitors’ firms dealing in wills and probate, funeral advisers, bank trustee departments, libraries and Citizens Advice Bureaux.

Wilmington Publishing & Information Ltd

WLR is a specialist provider of business information across a variety of industry sectors including UK Charities, HR & Training, Legal, Pension Funds, Media, Finance and Accountancy.