Make a donation to our Documents Purchase Fund

We are always pleased to accept archives which illustrate past or present life in Berkshire. If you would like to donate documents to us, please see our ‘Giving us your records’ page.

Sometimes we have to purchase documents that could otherwise disappear from Berkshire’s history, and to enable us to do this, we have something called the Documents Purchase Fund.

You can make a donation to the fund which will help us to preserve Berkshire's history and there are some examples of our past purchases at the bottom of this page.

To make a donation online, simply visit the payment page for Royal Berkshire Archives Donations on the RBC online payments webpage.

Then just select Donations, enter the amount you wish to give, enter the word Donation as the reference and click on 'Add to Basket'.

To complete the payment, simply click on 'Checkout now' from your basket and enter your card and personal details.

Thank you very much!

In the past the fund has enabled us to purchase items such as those shown below:

Invoices showing the expenditure of the Bradley family of Reading, 1929-1935 (collection reference D/EZ186).

A deposited plan showing the boundaries of the Berkshire part of the parish of Whitchurch, including detached portions surrounded by Purley and Sulham, 1874 (collection reference D/EX183/1).