As one of our Friends, you’ll get to know us in a whole new way. You and a family guest will visit our exhibitions for free all year round, enjoy all day access to the Keeper’s House and be invited to events and lectures. All this and more is included in our Friends membership scheme.

Standard Friends membership starts from £97 a year

Young Friends membership (16–25 years) is £45 a year

By supporting us as a Patron, you become part of the Academy. We aim to bring you closer to everything we do here with studio visits, expert-led tours and private viewings of our Collection and Archive. We offer priority booking for all our talks and lectures as well as first entry to our exhibitions – so you can experience everything that makes the RA special and a place worth protecting.

By supporting the Royal Academy of Arts, we hope to inspire a lifelong love of art in you, your colleagues and your clients. Whatever your particular interests or needs, we take pleasure and pride in offering our corporate supporters an experience they won’t find anywhere else. In return, you help us continue to make, exhibit and debate art.

We rely on the generosity of people who believe in our mission to provide a clear, strong voice for art and artists. Our independence is one of many things that makes us unique in the art world. By leaving a gift in your will you will help make sure we remain that way and ensure generations to come continue to discover a love of art through our work.

Without the help of our supporters, we wouldn’t be able run our innovative Learning programme and art school, or make ambitious plans for the future. We are continually seeking funding to support our activities and work closely with trusts and foundations who believe in our mission and vision for the years to come.