Radical Sponsors

Radical Sponsors

Personalise your support by sponsoring one of our Radicals or a Radical thinker of your choice for £1,000 a year for three years or £3,000. Join the Radicals’ is a philanthropic giving scheme, helping to support People’s History Museum inspire action and continue working towards a fairer world for all. Your Radical Sponsorship makes a real difference to our work and the communities we co-create with.

As a Radical Sponsor you enjoy a range of benefits, including:

• Personalising your support by sponsoring one of our Radicals or a Radical thinker of your choice
• Join the Radicals’ is a philanthropic giving scheme, helping to support People’s History Museum inspire action and continue working towards a fairer world for all. Your Radical Sponsorship makes a real difference to our work and the communities we co-create with.
• Having your name proudly displayed in the museum, alongside your chosen Radical on the Radical Sponsors screen at PHM
• Invitations to special museum events throughout the year, including a celebratory reception with the Chair of the museum’s Trustees
• A special one-to-one behind the scenes session with a museum expert, exploring the collections and material related to your chosen Radical
• Invitations to all museum exhibition previews for you and a guest
• Regular updates from the museum through e-newsletters
• 10% discount in the museum’s shop and cafe on production of your Radical membership card

Sponsor a Radical

Click here to see our list of Radical Heroes available for sponsorship, or let us know if a Radical Thinker has inspired you.

You can Join the Radicals as a Sponsor in the following ways:

• Visit PHM’s Virgin Money Giving page and become a Radical Sponsor online, paying monthly, annually or in full
• Email radicals@phm.org.uk or phone the museum on 0161 838 9190
• Fill in the membership form and return it to the museum

Your generous support helps the museum to celebrate the stories of radical thinkers whose big ideas have shaped our society; the men and women who believed in ideas worth fighting for. We encourage sponsors to Gift Aid their donation if they are able to.

Sponsored Radicals

Thank you to our remarkable and generous Radical Sponsors, whose donations are making a real difference to the museum and the impact of our work:

• VIV ANDERSON
  First black footballer to represent England
  Sponsored by The Football Association
• CLEMENT ATTLEE
  Labour Prime Minister
  Sponsored by The Brighton family in memory of Samuel Blackburn (1838-1882)
• SAMUEL BAMFORD
  English radical reformer and was one of the leaders in the Peterloo protests
  Sponsored by Robert Poole
• TONY BENN
  Labour politician
  Sponsored by Nigel Taylor
• GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
  Socialist writer
  Sponsored by Sir Trevor Chinn
• ANNIE BESANT
  Socialist, women’s rights activist, writer and philanthropist
  Sponsored byThe Monks Family
• ANEURIN ‘NYE’ BEVAN
  Labour Part Politican and Minister for Health
  Sponsored by Steve and Heledd Hayes
  Previously sponsored by UNISON
• ERNEST BEVIN
  Leader of the TGWU and Labour Foreign Secretary
  Sponsored by Lord Lea of Crondall
• RT HON TONY BLAIR
  Labour Prime Minister
  Sponsored by Baroness Prosser, Baroness Morgan of Huyton and Lord Cashman CBE
• MARGARET BONDFIELD
  Labour MP and first female Cabinet Minister
  Sponsored by Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
• MELVYN BRAGG*
  Labour peer and broadcaster who campaigns for the arts and education
  Sponsored by Baroness Jan Royall
• GORDON BROWN*
  Labour politician
  Sponsored by Lord Wilf Stevenson
• JAMES CALLAGHAN
  Labour Prime Minister
  Sponsored by the Family of Baroness Jay of Paddington
  Previously sponsored by Lord Lea of Crondall
• BARBARA CASTLE
  Labour Cabinet Minister
  Sponsored by the Jack Straw
  Previously sponsored by Leigh Day Solicitors
• WINSTON CHURCHILL
  Wartime Prime Minister
  Sponsored by Sir Victor and Lady Blank
• BOB CROW
  Socialist & General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers
  Sponsored by National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) Workers
  
• WILLIAM CUFFAY
  Chartist Leader who was the son of a former slave
  Sposnored by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH)
• DAGENHAM FORD SEWING MACHINISTS
  Their strike in 1968 for equal pay for men and women led to the 197 Equal Pay Act. However, the fight goes on…
  Sponsored by ASLEF
  Previously sponsored by First Actuarial LLP
• BRENDA DEAN
  Trade Unionist & Labour Politician
  Sponsored by Keith McDowall & Family
• JAYABEN DESAI
  Leader of the Grunwick Dispute
  Sponsored by Lord and Lady Bassam
• MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT
  Leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
  Sponsored by the National Education Union
• WAL HANNINGTON*
  Founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain and organiser of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement
  Sponsored by the Socialist History Society 
• ABEL HEYWOOD
  Radical, publisher and independent Mayor of Manchester
  Sponsored by Michael Elston
• ERIC LANE BURSLEM*
  BALPA’s first Chairman and campaigner for air safety
  Sponsored by BALPA
• LESBIANS AND GAYS SUPPORT THE MINERS (LGSM)
  Alliance of lesbians and gay men who supported National Union of Mineworkers during a year-long strike
  Sponsored by LGSM Pride
• MARY MACARTHUR
  Scottish suffragist, serving as the general secretary of the Women’s Trade Union League
  Sponsored by Vicky Phillips
• THOMAS PAINE
  English-born American political activist and revolutionary, known for ‘The Rights of Man’
  Sponsored by Melvyn and Gabriel Bragg
• EMMELINE PANKHURST
  Founder of the Suffragette movement in the UK
  Sponsored by ACCORD Union
• SYLVIA PANKHURST
  Leading suffragette and political campaigner
  Sponsored by MAPS Medical
• CHARLIE ROBERTS
  Founder of the PFA and leader of Outcasts FC who threatened strike action in order to gain recognition for the Players’ Union
  Sponsored by The PFA
• THE SEX PISTOLS
  Punk band who attacked the cultural conservatism of the 1970s
  Sponsored by Wayne Garvie
• JOHN SMITH
  Labour Party politician who served as the leader of the party from 1992 until 1994
  Sponsored by Lord Haskell
• THOMAS SPENCE*
  English Radical, advocate of universal suffrage and for the common ownership of land
  Sponsored by Baroness Beeban Kidron & Lee Hall
• SIR SIGMUNG STERNBERG*
  Hungarian-British philanthropist, and international interfaith campaigner
  Sponsored by Michael Sternberg QC
• EDITH SUMMERSKILL
  Hungarian-British philanthropist, and international interfaith campaigner
  Sponsored by Mary Honeyball
  
• PETER TATCHELL
  Human rights campaigner
  Sponsored by John Deighan
• W H THOMPSON*
  Civil rights lawyer and founder member of the National Council For Civil Liberties
  Sponsored by The family of W H Thompson
• THE TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS
  Trade unionists transported to Australia for swearing a secret oath
  Sponsored by Thompsons Solicitors
• ALAN TURING
  Mathematician and World War II codebreaker. Persecuted for being gay
  Sponsored by Bernard Donoghue
• VICTIMS OF PETERLOO
  Slaughtered while peacefully demanding votes for all
  Sponsored by the TUC
• ELLEN WILKINSON
  Labour MP who led the Jarrow March
  Generously sponsored by an anonymous major donor, whose gift has had a transformative impact on the museum
  Previously sponsored by The Monks Family

* Additional Radicals nominated by Sponsors