Giving To The Library
The total cost of the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library Project is £740,000. Funding will be spent on: the employment and training of one Senior Conservator, three Assistant Conservators and one Access and Learning Officer; the purchase of necessary equipment and materials to conserve the Library and educational visits.
The project’s lead funder, the Heritage Lottery Fund, has awarded a grant of £500,500. Generous donations have also been pledged from the Heritage Council, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Inner City Trust, the Honourable The Irish Society and a number of businesses and generous individuals.
There remains a shortfall of £40,000 which the fundraising team is addressing through a number of events and schemes.
Help save the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library
We need your help to bring this project to life. All donations are valued and welcome and will help to save the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library. Donation forms for UK and ROI donors can be downloaded here. A donation form for USA donors can be downloaded here.
The value of UK donations can be maximised by choosing to gift aid them. This can be requested using the donation form and means that every £10 donated is worth £12.80. The difference is paid by the Inland Revenue at no cost to you.
Completed forms can be sent for processing to: The Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library Project Campaign, Development Office, Room H236, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 1SA.
Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library Society
Organisations and individual donors will enjoy membership of the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library Society. All Society members’ names will feature on book conservation boxes and on the Project’s Roll of Honour, which will be positioned at the Magee campus and is currently available to view online. All Society members will also receive regular newsletters on the Library.
Supporters of the Library who donate between £100 and £499 become members of the Rare Books’ Guild. These donations will be used to support the conservation of key Library volumes, which are identified by the Project team as being some of the more significant in the collection. In addition to other Society member benefits, donors at this level will receive a commemorative bookmark and correspondence in due course from the Project team with details of which title they are supporting.
Friends of the Library who make a donation of over £500 become members of the Bishops’ Circle who will enjoy all other Society benefits and will also be invited to special events, which will be held throughout the year. Donations at this level will also be used to support the conservation of key Library volumes