Click the button below to donate securely online to the VEC Heritage Collections appeal. UK taxpayers can Gift Aid their donations (Registered Charity number 1142558).
Scroll down for more donation options, and to read about our plans.
Bank: Lloyds, Leamington Spa
Account name: Venerable English College Trust
Account number: 40968968
Sort code: 30-94-93
Reference: Archives Appeal
BIC: LOYDGB21137
IBAN: GB57 LOYD 3094 9340 9689 68
Please make cheques payable to ‘The Venerable English College Trust’, and write ‘Heritage Collections Appeal’ on the back of the cheque.
Cheques can be sent by post to:
The Rector, Venerabile Collegio Inglese, via di Monserrato 45, 00186 Roma, Italy.
Please visit the website of the North American Friends of the VEC, where you can make 501(c)(3) donations.
Following our three-year project to help raise the profile of the VEC Heritage Collections, we are now raising money to preserve the collection and develop the Collecdtions space. The three main areas of focus for the collection are Conservation, Cataloguing and Digitisation.
Many papers in the Collections are very fragile, and need specialized professional care to ensure that they can stand the tests of time. We intend for this to happen over the course of many years: items in need of conservation work will be identified as they are catalogued.
We began building a new multi-lingual electronic catalogue of the VEC Heritage Collections in 2015. That project needs to continue: every document in the Collections needs a brief description and reference code, enabling scholars to find efficiently all the material relevant to their research.
The VEC’s alumni in the Roman Association have now digitised the entire back-catalogue of the College magazine The Venerabile — some 10,000 pages, from 1922 to the present day — making research much easier. Many other holdings in the Heritage Collections would benefit from being digitised in this way, as it allows valuable information to be retrieved very quickly.
In addition to the vital work to preserve the collection and keep it available for generations to come, we are setting up an Archives’ reading room, and to appoint new staff to assist with the work on the Heritage Collections, and to assist readers with their research.
