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

Correspondence relating to Benjamin Franklin House

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Two photographs in colour showing damage one of the Adams ceilings in RSA House.
The repairs were part of the RSA House Appeal c1990-2001

Three photographs of the damage of an Adams ceiling in the RSA House, repair and conservation of ceilings funded by donations to the RSA House Appeal c1990-2001

Two Coloured photographs of restored Adams ceiling captured through a fish lens view

Two coloured photographs of the damage to an Adams ceiling in RSA House