Donate

Why give to the Royal Society of Literature?
The Royal Society of Literature is a registered charity and receives no government funding. We survive entirely on voluntary income from Members, Fellows and our supporters.

How will my donation be used?
Your donation to the Royal Society of Literature will fund:

• Our lecture programme – current sponsors include The Sunday Times, the Robert Gavron Charitable Trust and the Roy Jenkins Memorial Fund
  The best, and best-value programme of literary talks and discussions in London – a unique blend of literary seriousness and lively comment.
  — Maggie Gee on the lecture programme
  
  
• Our awards and prizes – current sponsors include the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Sir Christopher Ondaatje
  Receiving this award was a wonderful, unforeseen boon... It is an unusual prize, awarded as it is before a book is done. So it buys a writer time – and gives them a sweet serendipitous cup of adrenalin and morale.
  — Alice Albinia on winning an RSL Jerwood Award, made possible by the support of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation
  
  
• Our campaigns on matters of literary importance
  The RSL seizes every opportunity open to it to present the case for literature and those who create it by supporting the work of other writers’organisations, and, in particular, the absolute necessity for a well-funded, comprehensive Public Lending Right, and the collective management of those secondary rights which writers cannot exercise by themselves.
  — Maureen Duffy on the value of the RSL’s campaigning
  
  
• RSL – The Royal Society of Literature Review
  RSL is packed with interviews, essays and photographs that you don't find anywhere else in the press- an original, serious, and entertainingly offbeat record of our finest writers and writing.
  — Dame Margaret Drabble on RSL, the Royal Society of Literature Review, generously supported by the Lord Gavron Charitable Trust
  
  
• Our schools outreach programme
  The more I worked with schoolchildren, through the RSL, the more I realised what a wonderful teaching and inspiration resource it is for the RSL to be right by the Thames, the bridges, a world-class gallery and a historical London palace, full of ghosts and memories of ships. As well, of course, as a skating rink.
  — Ruth Padel, former Writer in Residence at Somerset House, on taking RSL workshops with local children