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The Annual Fund was launched in January 2002 to encourage members and friends of Chatham House to make charitable donations to be used annually in support of the Institute. Each year Chatham House launches an appeal to fund a specific project which will be of benefit to future generations of members, speakers, staff and researchers.
In 2008/09 a highly successful Annual Fund appeal was based around supplementing the refurbishment of the institute's conference hall - now known as the Joseph Gaggero Hall.
Chatham House 2009/10 Annual Fund
Restoration and Digitization of Chatham House's Speeches
In 2009/10, the institute wishes to use its Annual Fund to help preserve and make readily accessible, in electronic form, one of the richest legacies of its history - a collection of 3,000 transcripts of speeches from 1920 onwards, representing the only existing record of this invaluable material, much of which is now at risk of irreparable deterioration. The proposed digitization project will allow Chatham House to share with its supporters a wealth of subjects debated at the institute by eminent speakers from across the world.
Chatham House speakers include (from left to right):
Isaiah Berlin, Konrad Adenauer, Ian Fleming, Dorothy Sayers, Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill.
Donate Online
If you would like to make a contribution to Chatham House, please complete the online donation form.
Donors of £500 and above will receive a CD of 25 digitized speech transcripts with an accompanying explanatory booklet. Donors of £1,000 and above will in addition be prominently acknowledged on the Chatham House Annual fund web pages and in the institute's Annual Review.
Contributions to the 2009/10 Annual Fund will help with the cost of the digitization project as well as providing an important source of discretionary income for new research and other activities at the institute.
Copyright
Chatham House is restoring and digitizing meeting speeches from our archives from 1920 to 1965. These speeches will be available for donors and members to view.
We are currently clearing literary rights with individual contributors (or their families) whom we have not made contact with. If you are the rights holder for a person who spoke at Chatham House between 1920 and 1965 please contact Chatham House so that we can arrange to discuss this further.
The current list of speeches can be found through access to archives at www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a. Alternatively you can make an appointment to view the archives at the Chatham House Library. To contact Chatham House to book an appointment with a Library staff member or for instructions to use the website please email us at membership@chathamhouse.org.uk or by phone on +44 (0)207 957 5721.
Annual Fund Contributors
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