Targeting a Gift
Unrestricted/ General Fund
Unrestricted donations support the Society as a whole and allow us to put money into the areas that really need your support. Whether this is supporting the Society’s London Office, or helping us send specialist teams into the field, this fund is the backbone of the Society’s operations. By making a donation to the General Fund you allow us the flexibility to put your money where it is needed most.
Priority Project: The Lucy Gura Archive Fund
The Society’s Archive is named after a member, Lucy Gura, whose family made a substantial donation to the EES in 2007 for the digitisation of the oldest photographs in the collection.
The Archive is the Society’s most valuable material resource and a unique record of the history of scientific archaeology in Egypt, from its very beginnings in 1882 when the EES was founded. It is also a veritable treasure-trove of historically important material, from handwritten letters from Edouard Naville to Amelia Edwards, to paintings made by Howard Carter during his first visit to Egypt, photographs taken on-site by Flinders Petrie himself, and the notebooks of Bryan Emery.
The EES Archives Campaign 2009-10 focuses on raising money to ensure the preservation and accessibility of the collection for the future. To find out more or to make a contribution to the campaign please see here or click the link below.
Excavation Fund
In 2005 the Society launched an Excavation Fund in order to support and fund existing and new projects in Egypt. In 2008 the Society advertised the first grants from this Fund, which had been created by the generous donations of EES members. Preference was to be given to projects which fell within the Society’s current Research Strategy, particularly those which brought novel approaches to clearly-defined research questions, and which demonstrate advance consideration of future work and publication.
Four projects were supported from the Excavation Fund in 2008-09: Survey at Sesebi in the Sudan (directed by Kate Spence), conservation and restoration of paintings in the temple of Tutu at Ismant el-Kharab (Olaf Kaper), survey at Tell Basta in the Nile Delta (Daniela Rosenow) and The Panehsy Church Project at Amarna (Gillian Pyke).