Sidebar "Text" Widget – how to make the title a link? (a href)

Hi, I’m sure there is a way to do this but I’m probably missing something simple.

I’m customizing the sidebar section of my WordPress site and I’d like to add a new widget that has a clicakable title.

For example, I want the title of this widget to be “CONTACT” and when someone clicks on it, they’re taken to the contact page. I don’t want to have any text actually in/under the title, I just want the title to be a standalone link in the sidebar (because I like how the sidebar titles are styled, and I want to use them as links rather than have text).

I tried putting CONTACT into the title box, but as soon as I saved it, the HTML tags disappeared and it just left me with the title.

Is there any way to do this? Or is there a plugin I need to do this? Thanks very much for any help!