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The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery (an independent charity)
has been established for over 50 years and plays a vital role in
the life and work of the Gallery providing financial support for
exhibitions, conservation and education as well as the Gallery’s
running costs.
We organise a popular programme of social events, including
concerts, lectures, films and specially guided outings to places of
historic or artistic interest and a regular magazine, In View.
All helpers are volunteers.
Find details of Friends' events in calendar of Friends events
Friends' Benefits
• Unlimited free access to the Gallery and all exhibitions
for the Friend and a family guest
• Invitations to private views of all Gallery
exhibitions
• Exciting programme of events and
visits
• Regular Friends' In View magazine, with fascinating Gallery
insights and full details of future Gallery and Friends'
events
Subscriptions
• Annual subscription to the Friends costs £30 single and
£40 joint. Young Friends' membership (26 and under) is
£15.
• The subscription year runs from 1st September to the
following 31st August. Friends joining after 1st March do so
at reduced subscription rates for the balance of the subscription
year.
Ian Dejardin, Director Dulwich Picture Gallery writes.
'It seems like only yesterday that I was
writing in In View about one extraordinary milestone - the
millionth pound given by the Friends to the Gallery. Well, now here
is a second, equally astounding:- last year's donation of the
Friends crept for the first time above the magical £250,000 mark.
That is a quarter of a million pounds in one year - and as the
Friends' esteemed Treasurer, David Parry, put it, 'a quarter of a
million' does have such a particularly wonderful ring to it, which
is why I have used the term twice in the same sentence. And now
I'll say it again: A QUARTER OF A MILLION POUNDS. To say that the
Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery are now invariably one of our
most significant annual donors is frankly putting it mildly; it is
a rare year in which any single body or individual gives more. The
Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery are one of the most remarkable
support groups in the museum world. Every single aspect of the
Gallery's activities is crucially supported by the Friends; so I am
speaking on behalf of every person here when I offer my profoundest
gratitude for all that you all do on our behalf.'