CHARITABLE TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS

The National Portrait Gallery is indebted to the many charitable trusts and foundations who provide essential financial support for both capital and revenue projects. The Gallery owes particular thanks to the individual benefactors and trusts who generously supported the creation of the Ondaatje Wing, which opened in May 2000 and The Regency in the Weldon Galleries, which opened in May 2003.

Funding needs
Support from charitable trusts and foundations is increasingly vital to help fund Gallery services and activities including new access initiatives, special educational activities, work with our regional partnerships and management of the Collection.

 Building and Access projects:

• New interpretation for visually impaired visitors in the Tudor and early Twentieth Century Galleries
• Provision of neck loops for hearing impaired visitors
• Provision of hands-free magnifying glasses for visually impaired visitors
• Improved lighting and signage in the galleries
• Improved access through the main entrance and to the Ondaatje Wing Lecture Theatre
  

 Education projects:

• Creative workshops for young people (including young homeless people)
• Video-conferencing sessions with regional, SEN and hospital schools
• Outreach work with schools, particularly those from disadvantaged areas
• Facilities and activities for family learning (including BSL users)
• Workshops and linked activities for traditionally excluded groups including ethnic minority groups and people with learning difficulties
• Lectures and Friday evening music programme
• Displays and activities using the Education Studio Gallery
  

National / Regional Partnerships:

• Funded post to develop partnerships

Multimedia:

• Development of the IT Gallery
• Development of web-based learning resources
• Development of the Sound Guide (including special features for visually impaired visitors)
• Increased IT provision in the galleries themselves
  

Collections management and research:

• New acquisitions
• Research posts
• Commissions
• Continued programme of frame conservation internships
• Conservation work
• Cataloguing and digitising the Gallery's extensive Reserve collections

Further information available from:

Susie Holden
Fundraising Manager (Development)
Tel: 020 7312 2454
BT's Type Talk: 18001
Fax: 020 7312 0058
sholden@npg.org.uk

Catherine Yexley
Trust Fundraising Manager
Tel: 020 7312 2454
BT's Type Talk: 18001
Fax: 020 7312 0058
cyexley@npg.org.uk

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