Polska Fundacja Kulturalna (PFK), is an expatriate Polish publishing house, founded in London in 1950 to help maintain Polish culture among
Poles who had been resettled in the UK after WWII.
It is based at the
Polish Social and Cultural Centre, known as ''POSK'' in King Street,
Hammersmith
Hammersmith is a district of West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London.
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, London. It is housed there along with a number of other organisations which serve Polish expatriates and others interested in Polish culture.
The initiative for the project came from the writer, . It is a
Registered Charity
A charitable organization or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).
The legal definition of a ch ...
(no. 277603) and a company limited by guarantee.
Not until 1963 did the first books and pamphlets begin to appear under the imprint of ''PFK''. Since then well over 500 titles have been published.
From 1968 it has been the publisher of ''
Dziennik Polski i Dziennik Żołnierza'', The Polish Daily newspaper, now a weekly, and the oldest Polish language journal in print for the Polish diaspora in the UK.
In 2003 on its 40th anniversary, the foundation published the book, ''Polska Fundacja Kulturalna. 40-lecie działalności wydawniczej 1963-2003'' edited by Marek Jastrzębski, outlining its four decades of publishing activity.
References
External links
Associated book distributor Veritas Foundation.
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Internetowa encyklopedia PWN, PWN Encyclopedia entry, in Polish
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Newspaper companies of the United Kingdom, Polska Fundacja Kulturalna
British companies established in 1950
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Polish-language newspapers
1950 establishments in England
1950 establishments
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom
Polish diaspora organizations
Polish expatriates in the United Kingdom
Publishing companies established in 1950
Publishing companies based in London
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