and then they can download and sign the document in the presence of their chosen witnesses to finally obtain their legal will. Direct cremations - where the cremation happens privately and the ashes are returned to the family afterwards - start from £980. This has been reported as being around a third of the UK average cost for direct cremation, and around a fifth of the average UK funeral cost. Probate services through Farewill cost from £595. In 2016, TechCrunch wrote of their data privacy concerns of storing wills digitally, online. This led to Farewill responding that user data is stored on Amazon's Secure Storage Service, in Ireland, encrypted using AES-256 encryption. Charity partners The company has partnered with 50 UK charities, including Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation, McMillan, The Royal British Legion, and Christian Aid. The charities provide access to the will-writing service to encourage bequeathals to their organisation. It is estimated that this has generated over £260 million in pledged income, across the charities, since Farewill launched. CEO – Dan Garrett Dan Garrett is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Farewill. He completed an MSc in Design at the Royal College of Art, a Master of Structural Engineering at Oxford University, and an MSc in Global Innovation Design at Imperial College London. Garrett started Farewill after working in a Japanese residential home where he saw what he would later characterize as ‘the ineffectiveness of the death care industry’. When he returned to the UK, prior to starting Farewill, he organised 15 funerals and obtained will-writing qualifications. Dan Garrett was the 2019 winner of the Legal Innovation Awards Outstanding Innovator Award. Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, Farewill saw demand for direct cremations increase by 300% and demand for wills 12 times higher than normal. Partnering with former rugby professional Gareth Thomas, Farewill campaigned for an update to legislation on wills, as rules requiring wills to be witnessed were proving impractical due to social distancing measures. The Ministry of Justice investigated temporarily pausing such requirements. From April 1st 2020, Farewill began providing free will-writing services to all NHS staff. It was reported in July 2020 that over 15,000 NHS workers had used the free wills service. Funding and investors Farewill has raised £30M in total. After a number of seed rounds, a series A round occurred In January 2019, which raised £7.5M from 10