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Free resources for the organisations families turn to

Printable checklists, plain-English guides and dated UK figures — free, no accounts, no sign-ups. Link them or print them; nothing is expected in return.

If your organisation supports people through a death, everything on this page is yours to use. Link it from your resources page, print it for a bereavement pack, hand it to a family across a desk. No permission needed, no logo required, nothing asked for back. Valoren is a commercial site — the paid work funds the free work — but nothing on this page costs anything, and it stays that way.

Free tools and dated figures

For the questions families ask you across a desk. Who inherits without a will, how long probate takes, what it costs — answered by tools that need no sign-up, and figures that carry their GOV.UK source and the date they were last checked.

Kept current, so your link doesn't rot

The quiet risk of a links page is that things go stale on it. So the figures here are checked against GOV.UK and carry the date they were last verified, and the guidance is updated when the underlying rules move — that maintenance is most of what Valoren is.

If something you've linked changes materially, email me and I'll tell you exactly what changed and when.

One person, easy to reach

Valoren is built and run by one person — Joel Patterson. That means questions get answered by the person who wrote the thing you're asking about, usually the same day, and yes and no both come quickly.

Write to joel@valoren.uk — or see who's behind Valoren.

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FAQ

What organisations ask, answered.

Yes — print them, copy them, put them in whatever pack you give families. There is nothing to ask permission for and nothing expected back. The only request: print them unaltered, so the version a family holds matches the version being kept current here.
Valoren is a commercial site — it sells prepared estate-organisation products, and that is how the free work is funded. But everything on this page is genuinely free, with no account and no sign-up, and it stays that way. Free resources are how families find us; they only work if they are actually free.
Keeping them current is most of the job. Figures are checked against GOV.UK and carry the date they were last verified; guidance is updated when the underlying rules move. If something your page links to ever changes materially, email and I'll gladly tell you what changed and when.
England and Wales, unless a page says otherwise. Scotland and Northern Ireland differ on intestacy, probate (confirmation), and some deadlines — where a resource covers them separately, the page says so plainly.
Ask. It's one person here, not a partnerships department, which mostly means yes is fast and no is honest. If a checklist needs a different emphasis for the families you support, tell me what they need — it may already be half-built.
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