Donate to the RA
We’ve championed art and architecture for 250 years – and with your help, we’ll secure their future. Donate to the Royal Academy and you’ll promote learning and free education in the RA Schools, build on our world-class exhibition programme and share our Collection with the next generation.
Artists are at the heart of everything we do. Since 1768, the Royal Academy has been run by leading artists and architects and offered free tuition to the next generation in our art school. Our rich legacy, along with our Collection, our buildings and our work today, offers artists a powerful platform – to learn, to exhibit, to engage in debate and discourse.
Now, as we pass our 250th birthday, we need to secure our future – but we can only do this with your help.
Donate below or get in touch on 020 7300 5930 or philanthropy@royalacademy.org.uk
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We are run by artists and funded by art-lovers. Every donation will help to secure our future: free education, ground-breaking exhibitions, nurturing young artists and free access to our collection.
The difference your donation will make
RA Schools
The RA Schools is a free, three-year, postgraduate art school beneath the RA’s galleries. We take a small number of applicants each year from across the world who join a long and prestigious line of artists.
We have three priorities for our future: to restore our historic studios, to build a new suite of workshops and to secure free education at the RA Schools forever. This begins with a transformation of the RA Schools campus by Sir David Chipperfield RA.
Learning
We work with families, teachers, students, people with disabilities and vulnerable adults, who would not otherwise come to the RA. People come to the RA to learn about art and to explore their own creativity. In the Clore Learning Studio we encourage future generations to feel confident as artists, using our experience of training artists over the last 250 years.
Exhibitions
In 1769 we were the first institution in the UK to present temporary exhibitions. Our landmark shows have brought about new developments in art and art history, influencing artists and shaping our understanding of the world. Our exhibitions are unprecedented in breadth, spanning time and place from antiquity to the present day. We will build on the success of our world-class programme, staging ground-breaking exhibitions which give artists a powerful voice.
RA Collection
Since our foundation, the RA has collected examples of great art to educate and inspire. This includes work by Royal Academicians who are required to donate a work to the Collection, known as their ‘Diploma Work’. The RA has a responsibility to protect, preserve and research the collection so that it can be enjoyed and used by future generations. Through our new, free Collections displays, we can engage future generations with our story.