Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters is a charity based at Carlton House Terrace, SW1, London that promotes the practice and appreciation of portraiture. Its Annual Exhibition of portraiture is held at Mall Galleries, and it runs a commissions service to help those wanting a portrait throughout the year. Activities include artist Prizes, Awards, demonstrations, workshops, debates and talks. The Society is a member of the Federation of British Artists.

The London New Year's Day Parade (LNYDP) is an annual parade through the streets of the West End of London on 1 January. The parade first took place in 1987, as the Lord Mayor of Westminster's Big Parade. The parade was renamed in 1994, and for 2000 only it was called the Millennium Parade. The parade went virtual in 2021 but returned live for 2022, albeit scaled-down, due to COVID-19 pandemic.

The Federation of British Artists (FBA) consists of nine art societies, and is based at Mall Galleries in London where the societies' Annual Exhibitions are held. The societies represent living artists working in the United Kingdom who create contemporary figurative art. Mall Galleries aim to 'promote, inspire and educate audiences about the visual arts.'

The Embassy of Brazil in London is the diplomatic mission of Brazil in the United Kingdom.The Brazilian ambassador's residence is located in a separate building at 54 Mount Street, Mayfair, as is the Consular section which is at 3-4 Vere Street, Marylebone. Brazil also maintain an Office of the Naval Adviser at 170 Upper Richmond Road, Putney and an Office of the Air Adviser/Brazil Aeronautical Commission In Europe at 16 Great James Street, Bloomsbury.The Embassy moved to its current location in Cockspur Street in 2011, from Green Street, Mayfair.

The Embassy of Kazakhstan in London is the diplomatic mission of Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom. The embassy was formerly located in South Kensington before moving to its current location on Pall Mall in 2013.The Embassy of Kazakhstan in London fulfills several functions, some of these include the protection of citizens and rights of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the United Kingdom, development of co-operation of the Republic with the United Kingdom and implementation of Kazakhstan's foreign policy in the UK.

The statue of Lord Lawrence is a Grade II listed statue on the southeastern corner of Waterloo Place and Carlton House Terrace. It was erected in 1882. John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, spent much of his life working for the Indian Civil Service, entering it in 1829. He would go on to be Viceroy of India from 1864 to 1869 after playing a significant role in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. Despite this Lawrence is known to have approached local issues diplomatically, with a paternalistic approach to administration. The statue was designed by Joseph Edgar Boehm. Originally Lawrence was to hold a sword in one hand and pen in another, a reference to a story where Lawrence had given India a choice between the two in how it was to be governed. The design was deemed inappropriate and a new design was made, the original eventually ending up in the hands of Foyle and Londonderry College which Lawrence had attended.

The Board of Invention and Research (BIR) was a British expert-level committee, initiated by the Admiralty of the Royal Navy. Established in 1915, the board was responsible for soliciting expert scientific assistance to solve tactical and technical problems. It was a sister organisation to the Munitions Inventions Department which had been set up in April 1915 and the Air Inventions Committee (AIC), once it became become fully operational in the summer of 1917.

The National Police Memorial is a memorial in central London, commemorating about 4,000 police officers killed in the course of their duties in the United Kingdom. It was designed by Lord Foster of Thames Bank and Per Arnoldi and unveiled in 2005. The project architect for Foster was Peter Ridley.

The Coronation Arches were a series of four steel arches erected over The Mall, London, for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.The arches were designed by Eric Bedford. The tubular steel arches were floodlit and were adorned with metalwork crowns and golden cane fan-shaped designs. Sources describe them as being 70 or 85 feet (21 or 26 m) in height.In a House of Commons debate on 3 December 1953, Minister of Works Sir David Eccles announced that he was considering the arches' fate, and that they may be used in the rebuilding of the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens. It was later decided that renovation was preferable to rebuilding, and this option was rejected.

The British Coffee House was a coffeehouse at 27 Cockspur Street, London. It is known to have existed in 1722, and was run in 1759 by a sister of John Douglas (bishop of Salisbury), and then by Mrs. Anderson, and was particularly popular with the Scottish. English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries acted as public meeting places. It was rebuilt by Robert Adam in 1770, and was owned by David Hatton Morley, the father of Atkinson Morley.

The Royal Marines Memorial, also known as the Graspan Royal Marines Memorial, is an outdoor bronze sculpture by Adrian Jones, installed on the north side of The Mall in London, United Kingdom. Located next to Admiralty Arch, the 1903 memorial commemorates the Royal Marines who died in the Boxer Rebellion in China and the Second Boer War in Africa, and depicts two figures on a Portland stone plinth.

The statue of Sir Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde is a Grade II listed statue on Waterloo Place in London. It was designed by Carlo Marochetti and erected in 1867. Colin Campbell was a British Army Officer who served during the Peninsular War, Crimean War and in India. His most significant act was lifting the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. Campbell stands in bronze on a granite plinth, wearing the uniform he would have been during the mutiny. Below is a depiction of Britannia sitting upon a Lion holding an olive branch. The original site of the statue was a different location on Horse Guards Parade but was moved following resistance, with the Duke of Wellington mediating the situation.