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General correspondence about the RSAs Fourth Plinth project in Trafalgar Square including correspondence from 10 Downing Street, Buckingham Palace, Arup Associates and other sponsors and partners.

Drawings and plans from Arup Associates.

Dean Clough boasts one of the UK’s largest private galleries and a nationally acclaimed contemporary arts programme. It sustains a score of bursary studios, initiates festivals and performance events, supports several community and arts charities and enables a plethora of courses and educational initiatives.

The RSA had a Partnership with Dean Clough and ran a programme of courses and presentations. These included: Arts and Young People Initiative, Design Dimension, Making Formal Exhibitions, Thinking About Layout and Presentation, Printmaking, Printing Without a Press, Relief Painting, Open Sesame! Fine Arts Media An Extract from Art in Context by Jack A Hobbs and Programmes of Study.

The Dean Clough Programme ran from 1996

File on the Atlantic Canada Medal

A Royal Society of Arts Medal to be awarded to a person who has contributed significantly to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada.

The first year of the medal's being awarded, to someone wo has contributed significantly to the environmental welfare of the whole Atlantic region.

Sponsors are asked to submit names of suitable persons to the Medal Awards Committee or to any Atlantic Fellow of the RSA for forwarding to the Medal Awards Committee. Nominations were accompanied by a standard and up-to-date curriculum Vitae (or equivalent) and a covering letter from the sponsor outlining those things which make the nominee worthy of consideration for this medal. Sponsors were also asked to submit names of three other persons who would be willing to attest to the nominee's suitability.

Recipients of the medal were Joseph Sherman, Walter J Learning and James Rhodenizer

Papers from the New Zealand Chapter between 1989-1997

Correspondence, Notes from meetings, Minutes of Meetings, Committee Nominations, Guidelines for International Committees and Honorary Corresponding Members (Aims, Responsibilities and Structure), Booklets

The current work of the Chapter is focused around the Regenerative Futures programme, which aims to create a future where humans thrive as part of the Earth’s ecology.

This work has three pillars: climate change, inclusive economies, and indigenous wisdom.

Material relating to the RSAs 250th Anniversary Tree Planting Initiative including programme, attendance list, leaflets and the Tree News Magazine Autumn/Winter Issue 2003

Information about the Anglo-German Seminar including Debunking the Myths about Germany, The British Company and The German Company Compared, Briefing Notes, Correspondence and Rethinking the Company Inquiry

Correspondence relating to Benjamin Franklin House

A report by Christopher Lucas on Benjamin Franklin House including plans, budgets, estimates and correspondence

Invitation from the Chairman of the RSA to a private reception to celebrate the culmination of the RSA House Appeal and a presentation by Stephen Fry "The Relevance of Books in a Digital Age."

The evening celebrated the grand opening of the Library and concluded with a fundraising auction and the Fellows' Reading Room Draw

A Card from the Fellows Reading Room Draw signed by Wilder Gutterson, RSA Development Director.

During the building of the ambitious Adelphi Scheme (which included the RSA's John Adam Street House) the Adam Brothers were faced with bankruptcy. To complete the building work they ran a lottery which offered private houses as prizes. They need to raise approximately £200,000 - the equivalent of about £14m today - and tickets were sold for £50 each - the equivalent of about £3500 today!

The brothers were successful in raising the required amount, and must therefore have sold about 4,000 tickets. Without the Adelphi Lottery the RSA House would not have been completed.

The cover of this card preproduces a 1774 lottery ticket from the RSA Archives.

A booklet detailing the RSA House Appeal, information about the house, the phases of work, quotes from Fellows who donated, adopting a lion and information on how to donate to the House Appeal.

A booklet about the RSAs library for the future

In the summer between 2001 and 2004 the new 21st Century Library and research room was built for Fellows and researchers. The library offered Fellows a significant number of improvements and benefits: Sound proofed and air-conditioned rooms, better studying facilities, improved access to the book collection and archive, A private reading room for Fellows' enjoyment and learning and access to digital resources

Funding for the whole project was £600,000

The booklet provided a space for people to write their details to donate. The donations started at £25 and went up to £5,000

Adopt a Lion donation form printed with detail of partially restored lion heads in the RSA Research Room.

The RSA aimed to raise over £500,000 to repair, restore and redecorate the Adam ceilings and decorative schemes of two room within the House.
The RSA offered Fellows to option of "adopting" one of the 40 miniature lions which adore the Adam frieze in the Research room. For donations of £1000 and above you can name your lion for the duration of three years. The donations were put toward the cost of carefully cleaning the plasterwork, and reinstating the original paint scheme.

Donations started at £1000, to £5000 and up to £10,000

A printed newspaper article titled "Looking to plaster over the crack" by Sabrina Wolfe published in The Times, Wednesday 11th December 2002

RSA Building and Restoration 2001-2003 booklet

"It is beautifully simple without meanness, and grand without exaggeration" Thomas Malton 1792

Floppy Disk of RSA House Photos with the Front of House, Ceiling Overview and Plasterwork Detail
Mini Disc of RSA Fundraising 10.12.02
Cassette Tape of RSA Fundraising 10.12.02

Photographic negatives of the RSA Appeal showing the restoration of ceilings.

The RSA House Appeal aimed to raise over £500,000 to repair, restore and redecorate the Adam ceilings and decorative schemes of two within the House, and subsequently relocate the Society's library resources to the purpose built space within 8 John Adam Street.

Two photographs in colour detailing the work and restoration on an Adam's ceiling at RSA House thanks to the money donated to the RSA House Appeal between 1990-2001

Two photographs in colour of one of the Adams Ceiling of RSA House being restored thanks to money donated through the RSA House Appeal between 1990-2001

Two photographs of the damage to an Adams ceiling in the RSA House and restoration thanks to money donated to the RSA House Appeal between 1990-2001