Our heritage work is greatly enhanced by the Heritage Steering Group and we have established a ‘Friends of Wellington Heritage’ group to encourage small regular gifts and promote our heritage by hosting an annual Heritage Day at the College.
Restoring, conserving and celebrating our amazing heritage
Heritage has been an area that has been given more resource to ensure that we are celebrating and preserving the amazing collection of artefacts, paintings and archives that we have. Last year we recruited a professional archivist who has undertaken a full audit of our artefacts, archives and paintings and we are now able to make some informed choices about how we make the most of what we have and how best to use the collection to engage all members of the College Community with our unique history and heritage.
Our heritage work is greatly enhanced by the Heritage Steering Group and we have established a ‘Friends of Wellington Heritage’ group to encourage small regular gifts and promote our heritage by hosting an annual Heritage Day at the College.
| Funded by the College | – |
| Funded by philanthropy | £110,000 |
| Project cost | £110,000 |
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| Funded by the College | £135,000 |
| Funded by philanthropy | – |
| Project cost | £135,000 |
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| Funded by the College | £18,000 |
| Funded by philanthropy | – |
| Project cost | £18,000 |
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| Funded by the College | £50,000 |
| Funded by philanthropy | – |
| Project cost | £50,000 |
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| Funded by the College | £18,000 |
| Funded by philanthropy | – |
| Project cost | £18,000 |
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| Funded by the College | £25,000 |
| Funded by philanthropy | – |
| Project cost | £25,000 |
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On Friday 30th August we unveiled our new Long Service Boards, to honour and celebrate long-serving members of Wellington staff. Up until now, long-serving members of the teaching staff were commemorated with a stone plaque in Chapel, but only after their death, while most other members of College staff received no memorial, no matter how […]
On Friday 10th May, our Singapore OWs played a friendly golf match against the Singapore Old Etonians. Read the Match Report by our OW Singapore Rep, Will Jelf (Hg 96) below. The Singapore OW vs OE golf match had been long talked about and finally organised by the two skippers Jelf (Hg 91-96) and Eton’s […]
In the early days, Speech Days were much smaller than they are now – there were only a couple of hundred boys in the school, and it was less common for parents to attend the day – it wasn’t expected, and many of them lived a long way away, quite possibly overseas. In 1894, Bertram […]
7pm
Waterloo Hall, Wellington College
Parents of children who started at Wellington from September 2024 are warmly invited to our ‘Welcome to the Wellington Community Drinks Reception’ for parents of new starters on Sunday 6th October, 7pm at the College. The evening will be a lovely opportunity to meet fellow parents, enjoy a drink and some canapés and hear more about the Wellington Community and the work that we do.
We hope to see as many of you there as possible!
Book your place »The Turk's Head, Exeter
The Wellington Community would like to invite you to an informal catch up over drinks and light bites, for OWs currently studying at or near to the University of Exeter. This evening is a fantastic way to catch up with and meet other OWs studying near to you, as well as an opportunity to see some of your teachers from your time at College!
Book your place »11:30am
Waterloo Hall
The Wellington Community invite you to the first Careers Speed Networking event of the 2024-25 academic year, on Saturday 12th October 2024, 11.30am – 1pm. This event gives current students the opportunity to explore career options, practice their networking skills, and learn more about different jobs from parent & OW volunteers working in a range of sectors. Please note, we are now at capacity for volunteers.
Wellington pupils don’t need to register for this event, simply turn up on the day! More details to follow from Mr Webber.