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Churchill Archives Centre: Major Donors

"The inheritance bequeathed to us by former wise or valiant men becomes a rich estate to be enjoyed and used by all". Winston S. Churchill, 2 July 1938.

The Churchill Archives Centre is funded largely from its own endowments and from the support it receives from philanthropic trusts and individuals. We can only fulfil our important mission to preserve and provide access to the unique collections in our care because of the generosity of our friends and patrons.

  • The Archives Centre owes its existence to the following Founding Donors.
  • The New Wing could not have been built without the support of the following donors.
  • The following trusts, individuals and institutions have provided major support to particular projects.
  • More information is also available about the current Archives Centre Capital Campaign.
  • The Archives Centre also has a Friends Appeal allowing smaller gifts and donations to be pooled to support core conservation and cataloguing projects.

    • The Founding Donors

    The names of the founding donors, on display in the Archives Centre.

    Photograph of the Founding Donors' names on display.

    The Archives Centre was built and opened in 1973 thanks to the generosity of a number of distinguished American citizens. The commemoration on the wall of the Jock Colville Hall records this gift as follows:

    This Archives Centre was built and endowed by and in memory of these United States Ambassadors to the Court of St James's and other eminent Americans as a tribute to the inspiration and leadership of Sir Winston Churchill at once a British subject and an Honorary American Citizen.

    Winthrop W. Aldrich Walter H. Annenberg
    Vincent Astor Robert W. Bingham
    David K. E. Bruce Lewis W. Douglas
    Henry Ford II Maxwell M. Geffen
    Walter S. Gifford W. Averell Harriman
    Henry J. Heinz II Alanson Houghton
    Joseph P. Kennedy John L. Loeb
    Andrew W. Mellon David Rockefeller
    Thomas J. Watson Jr John Hay Whitney
    John G. Winant  

    The Donors to the New Wing of the Churchill Archives Centre

    The New Wing of the Churchill Archives Centre was built and opened in 2002. It exists to house the papers of the Rt. Hon. Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven and to provide the Centre with the space to continue collecting important personal papers of the modern era. The names of the donors are commemorated in a band of Portland stone carved by the Kindersley studio on the exterior of the New Wing. It reads as follows:

    The New wing of the Churchill Archives Centre was built with the generous support of Baroness Thatcher to house her papers. It was endowed by The Margaret Thatcher Foundation. HRH Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. BP PLC. The Clore Duffield Foundation. Jean Duffield. Dr Yung-fa Chang, Evergreen Group. Sir Paul Getty, KBE. The Hobson Charity Limited. Eric Hotung. Sir K.S. Li and Hutchison Whampoa. Jupiter Asset Management. David W. Packard. Rudolph Palumbo Charitable Foundation. Josie and Julian Robertson. Wafic Rida Said. Harold W. Siebens. The Sunley Foundation. Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust. The Wolfson Foundation. Mr and Mrs Charles Wyly.

    Photograph of the letter cutters of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop carving the commemorative stone band which runs along the length of the new wing.

    The letter cutters of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop carving the commemorative stone band which runs along the length of the new wing. This skilled work took several weeks to complete. Photo supplied by the Cardozo Kindersley Worskhop.

    Major Donors

    Since 1973 the Archives Centre has received support from a number of major donors towards the cost of staffing, equipment and key cataloguing and conservation projects. Churchill Archives Centre would like to record its thanks to all of the following:

    Anglia Television Group Plc The Annenberg Foundation
    The Atlantic Philanthropies The Bay Foundation
    Cable and Wireless The Clothworkers Foundation
    Henry Cooke Lumsden Plc The Dulverton Trust
    The Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust The Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr Foundation Inc
    The Garfield Weston Foundation Mr Ronald Gerard OBE
    John Paul Getty KBE Mrs Kyoko Gledhill
    The Mary W. Harriman Foundation The Heritage Lottery Fund
    The Josephine and John J. Louis Fund The Leverhulme Trust
    The Isaac Newton Trust The Margaret Thatcher Foundation
    The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Rank Foundation
    The Royal Automobile Club Mr Ian Rushbrook
    The Daily Telegraph Plc The Wolfson Foundation
     

    The Archives Centre Capital Campaign

    The Churchill Archives Centre is currently running a major capital campaign to raise £3M to put in place the new collections, new partnerships and new technologies that will broaden access to our unique holdings. The names of the donors to that campaign will shortly be commemorated here. For further information about the campaign please contact the Director of the Archives Centre.