HMS WELLINGTON@90

HMS WELLINGTON@90

Campaign Update:

We have some great news for our loyal and generous supporters of the Wellington@90 campaign. We were recently awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) grant of £225,000 to support our revitalisation campaign for this unique historic maritime ship in the centre of London. This will make a significant difference to securing the future of HMS WELLINGTON and our ambitions to maintain our charitable objectives - to preserve and conserve her, and for education and learning about the Royal Navy and British Merchant Navy.

With the combined funds raised from this GoFundMe campaign, donations made direct through our website, offline donations and the first instalment of our NLHF grant, we are now very, very close to meeting our total overall Wellington@90 campaign target of £150,000.

The campaign funds raised so far have been put to use directly onboard helping with maintenance and repairs, as well as starting up our venue hire and workspace rental business, which has got off to a very promising start. We are grateful to each and every donor who has so far contributed. Thank you.

This lottery grant will now help enable our plans to open the ship to the public later this year, so we do hope you will come onboard and visit us. As promised we'll be inviting you for a cup of tea onboard when the warmer weather comes as a thank you for your kind support.

We are continuing to keep our GoFundMe campaign open as we still have much work to do, and donors are still finding us online - every £ helps us deliver the revitalisation programme. You can also support the ship in other ways by considering booking HMS WELLINGTON for your event, take a flexible office space onboard, or support our onboard events and activities, which will be launching later this year.

To keep up to date with the Wellington Trust, our plans to open and our events onboard, please visit our website to sign up for updates and to sign up for our newsletter https://www.thewellingtontrust.org/latest-news/

The Trust is proud to be the steward of this iconic ship and securing a sustainable future is our goal. But we could not do it without supporters like you, so we thank you so much for your generosity.

Dominic Tweddle, Chair, The Wellington Trust.