The Big Give Christmas Challenge

    Help Us Double Your Donation!

    The Foundling Museum is excited to announce its next major exhibition will be Quentin Blake-As large as life (12 January – 15 April 2012).

    Bringing one of Britain’s best-loved and most successful illustrators to the Foundling Museum, this exhibition of over sixty works will present recent work created by four hospitals in the UK and France and will be on display from January 2012. The exhibition will be accompanied by talks, workshops and family activities for all ages. The Foundling Museum is hugely excited to be hosting this exhibition and highlighting the long history of art and philanthropy uniting for the benefit of young people. However, as a small independent Museum with no public funding, we require financial support to make the exhibition a reality.
     
    We are asking you to make an online donation via the Big Give Christmas Challenge. The Big Give will then match the donation, doubling it, for free! The Museum has been successful in the first step of the Challenge in raising £4,000 in pledges from our supporters. We now need to raise £8,000 from online donations. To ensure funds are matched you have to make your online donation from 10:00 on Monday 5 December.  Money to double donations is allocated by the Big Give on a first come, first served basis.  So we ask you to be on your marks and all set to go when the Big Give launches on Monday 5 December at 10:00 (the challenge ends on Friday 9 December 2011).

    Even the smallest contribution can make a difference and we will acknowledge you as a supporter, by name in the Museum during the Blake exhibition.

    **If you would like to help us raise money please click here, where you can safely make your donation online now!**

    Thank you from us all at the Foundling Museum.

    Quentin Blake - As large as life will be open from Thursday 12 January - Sunday 15 April 2012. The exhibition at the Foundling Museum is organised by Compton Verney in collaboration with the House of Illustration.

    Images: From the series' Ordinary Life and Mothers and Babies Underwater © Quentin Blake