For over 30 years BADA Friends and the Young Friends have assisted with the purchase of many important objects for national museum collections. The Friends have also helped to fund publications for key cultural institutions. Read an overview of the projects supported by the BADA Friends.
Projects supported by BADA Friends
2023
Olga Calvo from the Textile Conservation Centre in Glasgow the recipient of the BADA Friends Prize in Memory of Brian Morgan
Image courtesy of ©The Kelvin Centre, University of Glasgow.
2022
Supporting the purchase of a work by surrealist photographer Benji Reid for the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Kent.
Image, above right: Holding onto Daddy (2016), © Benji Reid, courtesy of Bethlem Museum of the Mind.
2021
Supporting the York Minster Fund
Supporting the Antique Dealers’ Research Project at the University of Leeds
Supporting the William Morris’s ‘Heaven on Earth’ project at Kelmscott Manor, (image right).
2020
Chih-En Chen from SOAS (School for Oriental and African Studies) the recipient of the BADA Friends Prize in Memory of Brian Morgan
2019
The setting up of the BADA Friends Prize in Memory of its founder Brian Morgan. The first recipient being Corrina Ellis from SOAS (School for Oriental and African Studies)
2018
Supporting Billy Cave a ceramics student at the newly opened Clay College in Stoke
2017
Supporting the publication of a book on the William Kent re-modelled house Raynham Hall in Norfolk
2015/16
Supporting a student at the Textile Conservation Centre in Glasgow
2015
Purchase of two sketch books by Art Deco designer Pickford Waller for the Library at the Glasgow School of Art
2013/14
Sponsorship of the catalogue for the William Kent exhibition starting at The Bard Graduate Centre in New York and transferring to the Victoria & Albert Museum
2012
Sponsorship of the restoration of a set of Georgian Vestry Chairs from St Magnus the Martyr, City of London
2011
Young Friends donation to the Completing Kettle’s Yard project, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Sponsorship of student at the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History, University of Glasgow
2010
Sponsorship of A Festschrift in honour of the late Jonathan Horne
2009
Young Friends Sponsorship of the Kennington Kids project at The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
2008
Sponsorship of the book - Penwork - a Decorative Phenomenon by Nöel Riley
Sponsorship of the catalogue - Thomas Hope Regency Designer for the exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum and New York
Restoration of the Camden’s Britannica for the Wren Library at Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln
Sponsorship of the Chinese Whispers Exhibition at Brighton City Art Gallery, West Sussex
2007
Purchase of a Bronze skillet to complete the collection at the Somerset County Museum, Taunton, Somerset
Restoration of portraits of the founders of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability, London
2006
Young Friends Restoration of a painting at the Watts Gallery, Surrey
Restoration of the Apothecaries Chest and Georgian Pole Screens for Kew Palace, London
Part sponsorship of the exhibition Journey to the New World at the Museum of London
2005
Young Friends Sponsorship of the Education Department at The Wallace Collection, London
Sponsorship of Thomas Chippendale’s The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker’s Director 1754 re-printed by the Chippendale Society
2004
Purchase of equipment for the metalware department at West Dean College, West Sussex
Sponsorship of MA Textile Student at the Textile Conservation Unit, Winchester
2002
Purchase of a Matthew Bolton sugar bowl for Soho House, Birmingham
Young Friends Sponsorship of the Education Department at the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery & Bedford Museum, Bedford
Restoration of the Gainsborough portrait of Samuel Linley, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Young Friends Sponsorship of The Special Things project for adopted children and their families at the Museum of London
2001
Young Friends Restoration of the Vita Nova Washstand designed by William Burgess at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Restoration of the staircase & the Coade stone font at the Foundling Museum, London
2000
Young Friends Sponsorship of the Quiz Desk at the Geffrye Museum, London
1999
Support of the purchase of the Chippendale Music Desk at Temple Newsam House, Leeds
Purchase of a Longcase Clock for the Petworth Cottage Museum, Petworth, West Sussex
1994
Purchase of a William and Mary Lighthouse Sugar Caster to complete a set at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London