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Monday 6 July 2009 toThe Annual Fund
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.
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