Editing Richmond Park (section)

===The Hearsum Collection===
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| founder             = Daniel Hearsum (1958–2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel Paul Hearsum |url=https://www.memorygiving.com/danielpaulhearsum |date = April 2021|access-date=6 February 2025 |website=Memory Giving}}</ref>
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| registration_id     =  1153010
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| headquarters        =  [[Pembroke Lodge]], Richmond Park
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| leader_title        = Chair 
| leader_name         = Jane Hearsum
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| budget              = <£11,000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/5035905/financial-history|title= The Hearsum Collection: Financial history|access-date = 4 May 2024|website= [[Charity Commission for England and Wales]]}}</ref>
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'''The Hearsum Collection''' is a registered charity{{refn|group="nb"|Its charity registration number is 1153010.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regid=1153010&subid=0 | title=Charity overview: The Hearsum Collection | publisher=[[Charity Commission for England and Wales]]| access-date=29 June 2023}}</ref>}} that collects and preserves the heritage of Richmond Park. It has a collection, which was started by Daniel Hearsum (1958–2021) in 1997,<ref name="Park History">{{cite web | url= https://www.pembroke-lodge.co.uk/history/| title=History: Richmond Park History | publisher=[[Pembroke Lodge]] | access-date=19 February 2022}}</ref> of heritage material covering the last four centuries, with over 5000 items including antique prints, paintings,<ref name="FRP blog"/> maps, postcards, photographs, documents, books and press cuttings. Volunteers from the Friends of Richmond Park have been cataloguing them.<ref name="FRP blog">{{cite web | url=http://blog.frp.org.uk/tag/hearsum/ | title=History Volunteers welcome new paintings of Richmond Park | publisher=[[#Friends of Richmond Park|Friends of Richmond Park]] | work=FRP blog | date=19 May 2013 | access-date=29 June 2023 | archive-date=3 November 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103175920/http://blog.frp.org.uk/tag/hearsum/}}</ref> The Collection, which as of 2025 continues to be stored in unsatisfactory accommodation in Pembroke Lodge,<ref name="Hearsum video"/> is overseen by volunteers and part-time staff. The trustees announced in 2014 plans for a new purpose-built [[heritage centre]] to provide full public access to the Collection.<ref name="Hearsum video"/><ref name="Hearsum">{{cite web | url=https://hearsumcollection.org.uk/ | title=Welcome to The Hearsum Collection | publisher=[[#The Hearsum Collection|The Hearsum Collection]] | access-date=21 June 2023}}</ref><ref name="Wood - heritage">{{cite journal | title=Consultation on new heritage centre | author=Robert Wood | journal=Friends of Richmond Park Newsletter |date=Autumn 2014 | page = 13}}</ref>

In April 2017 the Collection, in collaboration with The Royal Parks and Ireland's [[Office of Public Works]], mounted an exhibition at Dublin's [[Phoenix Park]] entitled ''Parks, Our Shared Heritage: The Phoenix Park, Dublin & The Royal Parks, London'', demonstrating the historical links between Richmond Park (and other Royal Parks in London) and Phoenix Park.<ref name="Fallon">{{Cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/gardens/park-yourself-in-dublin-s-finest-garden-1.3025382 |title=Park yourself in Dublin's finest garden  |last=Fionnuala Fallon |date=1 April 2017 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] |access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref> The exhibition was also displayed at London's [[Mall Galleries]]  in July and August 2017.<ref name="Mall">{{Cite web |url=https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/parks-our-shared-heritage-413797/|title=Parks – Our Shared Heritage |date=July 2017 |author= Ian Mansfield|publisher=IanVisits  |access-date=1 March 2025}}</ref>