Hi, I'm new to this but need advice. My parents have given me and my brother a substantial cash gift.The letter must explain who is gifting the money, where the donor's funds are coming from and the relationship between the donor and the recipient. Could someone please give this the once over? My parents gifted us 24,000GBP to help us meet the financial requirements for the spouse visa. Here's a sample gift letter you can use to prove that the money is truly meant as an outright gift, with no expectation of repayment. As I understand it, a parent can gift £3000 per year to a child free of any IHT liability. A gift letter is an important, formal, legal piece of documentation that can help explain that a (usually rather large) sum of money was gifted to you. The letter requires immediate completion of the form. Weeks said there isn't a fine or jail time.