The Unseen Good: A summer quest
- GB 3544 RHN-FU-02-03-04
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- 1884
Christmas appeal of an account of a writer and artist visiting a number of pensioners [hospital outpatients] in their homes. With illustrations.
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The Unseen Good: A summer quest
Christmas appeal of an account of a writer and artist visiting a number of pensioners [hospital outpatients] in their homes. With illustrations.
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Christmas appeal written by the Rev. Thomas W Aveling D.D., that gives an account of a visit to the hospital. In the pamphlet, the author visits the female and the male wards and communal areas and provides descriptions of some of the patients that he encounters. The volume has an introduction by the Hospital's Secretary, Frederic Andrews, who states that due to the popularity of the pamphlet that it had been reproduced for two years' running.
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Life in Shadow: A narrative of visits to the Royal Hospital for Incurables, West Hill, Putney Health
Christmas appeal of a series of visits to the hospital by by Miss Thackeray, J C Parkinson, Rev Gordon Calthop M.A, Rev Thomas Binney and Dr Guthrie.
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Published annual Christmas appeals produced by the hospital. The appeals were widely sold and distributed around the United Kingdom and formed an important part of the hospital's fundraising activities from 1872 to 1937. The appeals often took the form of an account or sketch of the hospital and its patients and were often produced by well known writers, such as Anne Thackeray (1837-1919), Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) and Rev Philip Power (1822-1899) and illustrators, such as Lancelot Speed (1860-1931).
The Archive has an incomplete set of the appeals but several others can be found in other collections, namely the British Library.
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Annual publication containing a fundraising appeal and a list of subscribers to the hospital. Each volume provides a list of senior staff and board members of the charity, constitution, appeal for funding, information about providing a financial contribution, a record of the previous years election results, a list of gifts and bequests received in the previous year and a list of subscribers, in alphabetical order. This list provides the names of the subscribers and their addresses, the number of votes that they held, the date when they began subscribers and whether they were an annual or life subscriber.
Early appeals, 1858 to 1901, include a copy of the annual report and accounts.
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Digitised images of hospital appeals part 2
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Digitised images of hospital appeals part 1
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Published charitable appeals produced by the hospital, including earliest appeals from the Royal Hospital, 1854-1861. File also includes later printed appeal pamphlets, 1980s-1990s, including introduction to the Evitt Ward produced by the Disabled Trust for Young Disabled, and John Howard's House, Brighton.
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Printed appeals, list of charity subscribers and fundraising event literature.
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Royal Hospital for Incurables London County Committee
Meeting agenda and minutes, annual reports and publications for the Hospital's London County Committee.
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Letters received by Fundraising Department
Letters received by the Fundraising Department from the public which refer to a historic connection or past memory of the institution, these include a former nurse wartime experience training at the hospital during the Blitz.
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Reports and presentations relating to fundraising at the hospital
Reports and printed slides of a presentation, including presentation slides, 'Building a better future for disabled people in partnership with local business', no date; report, '1999/2000 Fundraising Development Strategy Review' and report, 'Online fundraising growth and integration report', 2012 and a social media audit carried out for the Hospital by Aristos, a consultancy firm, in November 2012.
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Board of Management papers relating to fundraising and communications
Printed meeting reports produced for the Board of Management, including reports on the formation of a public relations department and creation of the role of director of corporate communications.
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Departmental papers of the Fundraising Department
Correspondence, memorandum, reports, grant applications and promotional material relating to the Hospital's fundraising department, these include: a memorandum from 22 December 1993 regarding the need for improving hospital fundraising; applications for the role of fundraising manager, with attached curriculum vitae; grant application for the National Lotteries Charity Board, 1996; details of the fundraising campaign for the cloistered garden for the Hospital, and planning for the official opening, and letters relating to individual gifts received by the hospital.
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Papers relating to the hospital fundraising efforts including copies of published appeals and papers relating to the fundraising department relating to formation, fundraising applications and projects and previous hospital fundraising bodies such as the London Committee.
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Papers relating to fundraising for the hospital including departmental papers from the Fundraising Department and published appeals.
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Papers relating to changes in accounting procedures
Papers relating to changes in accounting procedures, including memorandum, correspondence, reports and lists.
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Annual list of pension contribution to the hospital’s ‘pensioners’.
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Indexed register of legacies received to the hospital between 1884 and 1895, with annotations and corrections dated up to 1912. Each entry provides the following details of the legacy: date created, full name of the benefactor, executors, amount and notes (e.g. duty free, when payable, other trustees) and when paid.
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Minutes of the Finance Committee
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