[2][3] The charity is based in London, and consists of: a team of staff and volunteers; a board of trustees headed up by Professor Dame Lesley Regan, and a Research Advisory Committee of leading experts.
[6] The charity was established in 1964 by eminent obstetrician Professor Will Nixon, who was touched by the grief of a young man whose wife died during childbirth.
[10] Research projects they funded created the ground rules that mean many thousands of women have safe laser treatment to treat cervical cancer.
[7] Professor Stuart Campbell of King's College, London, received funding from the charity for a project that developed an ultrasound that would identify babies at risk of stillbirth by finding out if they had abnormal blood flow.
The charity enabled breakthroughs in IVF, by funding research into the optimum time for embryo transfer, and by looking at how eggs mature in the ovary.
[16] In December 2011, in the run-up to the 2012 Summer Olympics in Stratford, London, Clara Maidment shot a charity calendar in aid of Wellbeing of Women.
Twelve British female sporting celebrities who posed in the lingerie of Nichole de Carle, wearing jewellery by Salima Hughes and Coster Diamonds.
[citation needed] Wellbeing of Women runs a series of Literary Lunches at Fortnum & Mason,[17] which feature a prominent author in conversation with Eve Pollard OBE or Baroness Jenkin of Kennington.
Previous authors have included PD James, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Penny Vincenzi, Julian Fellowes and Ffion Hague.
[20] In 2021, Royal Patron The Countess of Wessex co-hosted a roundtable event with business leaders, celebrities and women, to launch the charity's first campaign: The Menopause Workplace Pledge.
In 2022, Mr Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle signed the pledge, committing to make the House of Commons "menopause friendly" for staff.