Leave a Legacy

Gifts in Wills

A lifelong learner like you knows the value of a legacy. Build yours with a gift in Will to Avondale.

This gift will keep giving by empowering our students and staff to serve their world for good.

Leaving a gift in your Will is simple:

• Consider what type of gift.
  • Demonstrative gift: A general item from a specific source, such as shares from your portfolio.
  • Specific gift: An item you can easily identify and distinguish from other items, such as a house.
  • General gift: An item of specific value but from a general source, such as a set amount of money from your estate.
  • Residual gift: All items left in your estate after the distribution of gifts and payment of expenses.
• Meet your solicitor or legal advisor—we can connect you with a Seventh-day Adventist trust services director, who can prepare your Will without charge.
• Use clear wording to ensure we receive your gift as you intended—we suggest the following:
  
  “To Avondale University Limited of Cooranbong, New South Wales [ABN 53 108 186 401] to be applied under the direction of its governing Council, for the general purposes of Avondale University AND I DECLARE that the receipt of any proper officer for the time being is a complete discharge to that extent to my Trustee without my Trustee having to see to the application thereof.”

Your gift in Will can develop quality infrastructure by funding capital works, educate leaders by endowing a scholarship, or enable learning and discovery by endowing a research chair.

We gratefully acknowledge those who value Christian higher education by making a gift to Avondale University in their will. Thank you for trusting us to build on your legacy.

Awards and Citations

The awards and citations we present at Homecoming recognise your dedication to transforming lives, engagement with learning and discovery and commitment to service.

Recipients of the Alumna and the Alumnus of the Year awards are usually members of a Homecoming honour year. The recipient of the Young Alumnus of the Year award is a member aged 35 and under from the graduation class celebrating its sixth anniversary. Recipients of citations are members of the Homecoming honour years.

Names of the recipients are recorded in an Award and Citation Register.

Read more about the recipients on our news blog.

Heritage Walk

The unveiling of a paver in the pathway outside Bethel Hall on August 28, 1999, marked the beginning of a walk honouring you as our alumni.

About 400 alumni have pavers in the Alumni Heritage Walk on our Lake Macquarie campus. Their names are recorded alphabetically with paver row and position in an Alumni Heritage Walk Register.

Honouring legacy is one goal of the walk, raising money was another, with a percentage from the sale of each paver funding heritage capital projects.

While a refurbishment in 2023—the first since the launch—extends the longevity of the walk, it also completed and closed it as a fundraising project.

Jacaranda

Our annual yearbook is produced by and for students. It tells the story, through images and words, of transformation through Christ-centred higher education. Browse this collection of past issues to see yours.