Foundation News

This series of 'Foundation News' contains general in-house newsletters. Articles appear relating to the workings of the company, products, staff, premises, changes, and the like. Many photographs appear as well, except in the earliest editions.

Wartime issues give details of those staff serving in the forces.

The frequency of issue of the publication varied over time. In early days it was produced every few months, later becoming bi-monthly and then (usually) monthly. Sometimes issues for two consecutive months were merged and published as one.

Many of the December issues contain Christmas competitions. Some issues also contain loose order forms for various other publications, including diaries.

Publication ceased with the first flotation of The Wellcome Foundation Ltd on the London Stock Exchange in 1986. Thereafter a new series of staff news publications, first 'Wellcome Journal' and later 'Wellcome World', were produced.

The card index to the series is not complete, but nonetheless valuable. It should be used in conjunction with the main run of publications.

59 items

Please see main WF collection description (ref. 'WF').

Copyright was assigned to the Wellcome Trust for all material created or commissioned by the Wellcome Foundation, its successors and associated companies. The copyright in third party material (ie material not created by WF such as letters and publications from external sources, magazine articles, newspaper cuttings etc) is assumed to remain with the creator or his/her heirs. Where third party material exists, this has been noted at item level.