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If your interests include art, architecture, gardens, landscapes, interior design, history, heritage and cultural activities, then Royal Oak membership is for you. Royal Oak members enjoy benefits in the U.S. as well, including a broad array of lectures, day trips and special events; and informative publications that explore British heritage.

Please consider making a gift to Royal Oak today to support educational events, undertake substantial conservation and preservation projects and provide essential scholarship opportunities.

For over 45 years, The Royal Oak Foundation has invited some of Britain’s most respected scholars of British history, art, architecture, and design to share their work with audiences throughout the U.S. Today, lectures remain a significant benefit of Royal Oak membership and encourage development and support for the Foundation’s important work with The National Trust of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Royal Oak speakers illustrate English country houses and collections, including many of the 350 historic houses and gardens under the stewardship of the National Trust.

Royal Oak is raising money this year to help the National Trust restore and re-imagine the spectacular woodland garden, Sheffield Park and Garden. Located in East Sussex and one of the most visited properties in the National Trust, Sheffield Park and Garden is a designed landscape, created over centuries by a series of owners for pleasure and play. Leading landscape and garden designers have lent their artistic vision to the property including Capability Brown and Humphry Repton.

The Royal Oak Legacy Circle recognizes those who wish to create a legacy by remembering Royal Oak and the National Trust of England, Wales & Northern Ireland in their estate plans. Benefits of membership in The Royal Oak Legacy Circle include invitations for annual special events in association with our lectures around the U.S and recognition in our print and digital publications. Legacy Circle members also have access to special Legacy Supporter events organized by the National Trust in the UK.

Your gift to The Royal Oak Foundation strengthens our programs in the United States and our support of the National Trust and its stewardship and conservation work overseas. Public support for nearly 50 years has allowed Royal Oak to grant almost $20 million to support a wide variety of National Trust projects. We need and appreciate your direct support because membership dues only go so far to underwrite our mission.

Royal Oak offers a variety of opportunities for businesses and corporations to participate in the Foundation’s programs and activities through sponsorship and donations of goods and services. Each of our Corporate Partner relationships are configured uniquely to derive the best benefit for the partnering institution, Royal Oak’s membership, and the foundation as a whole.

Heritage Circle members express their personal investment in a shared belief that the Trust’s treasures belong to everyone and should …