Beyond has closed. Your will is almost certainly still valid — here's what to do.
The online will-writer at beyond.life has ceased trading — its closure notice asked customers and charity partners to make contact by 30 June 2025, and Companies House records show BEYOND.LIFE LTD was dissolved on 30 August 2024.
If you made your will with Beyond, the company's closure does not invalidate the will. A properly signed and witnessed will remains legally valid in England & Wales no matter what happens to the company that helped write it.
What you may have lost is everything around the document — storage, updates, and the plan for your executors to find it.
| At a glance | The short version |
|---|---|
| What happened | The will-writing service at beyond.life ceased trading; BEYOND.LIFE LTD was dissolved on 30 August 2024. |
| Is your will still valid? | Almost certainly — validity comes from how it was signed, not from the company. |
| What you may have lost | Storage, updates, and the plan for your executors to find it. |
| What to do this month | Find the original · read it against your life today · make it findable. |
Is my will still valid?
Yes — a properly executed will does not die with the company that helped write it. Validity in England & Wales comes from the Wills Act 1837 formalities: the will is in writing, signed by you, and witnessed by two people present at the same time. A closed company cannot un-sign your will.
What the closure genuinely puts at risk is everything around the document:
A will is proved from the signed original, not a PDF. Do you physically hold it? If Beyond stored it, establishing what happened to stored documents is your first job.
Any subscription or update service died with the company. Nothing is now watching whether your will still matches your life.
If the plan was "the company has it," your executors' map is gone.
The three things to do this month.
Check your own papers first; if Beyond held it, use the contact route in the closure notice. Until the original is in your hands or a known safe place, treat this as unfinished.
Marriage since signing? (That alone usually revokes a will — see our guide to does marriage revoke a will.) Divorce, new children, a new home, an executor who has died or drifted away? Any of these means the document has quietly stopped matching your intentions.
Register its existence and location with the National Will Register, and tell your executors where it is. From 13 July 2026 you can also deposit the will itself with the Probate Registry for a one-off £24 fee — the official strong-box option.
If it's time to redo it.
If the original can't be found, the safest course is a new will. A copy can sometimes be proved, but that is a court process with no guaranteed outcome — a fresh will, properly executed, revokes and replaces the lost one cleanly and ends the uncertainty.
A Valoren will is £149 single or £229 for mirror wills — and it includes 12 months of Will Watch, the annual check that your will still matches your life. Not because the document was the problem — because the plan around the document was.
Beyond's closure, answered.
Informational, not advice. England & Wales only. Facts checked 13 July 2026 — status details for beyond.life and Beyond Wills Ltd are drawn from the company's own closure notice and public Companies House / SRA registers.