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Charities


see also Childhood - Children's Homes

see also Education - Education for the Poor

see also Housing - Housing of the Poor

see also London : a Pilgrimage

see also Religion - Missions

for a useful List of Charities - see under 'Charities' below

 

§ Charities (excluding childrens')

— Association for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity

— Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind

— 'Asylum for the Houseless Poor'

— Asylum for Destitute Sailors

— Battersea Dogs Home

— Baylis's cook-shop

— Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen Tailors

— British and Foreign Sailors' Society

— British and Foreign School Society

— Cabmen's Shelters Fund

— Central Servants' Home and Registry

— Charity for the Houseless Poor

— Church of England Young Men's Society (1) (2)

— classification of charities (Mayhew)

— 'The City Inquest for the Poor'

— Costers' Mission, Golden Lane (1) (2)

— Cow-cross Mission

— Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society

— Factory Girls Mission

— Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution

— Female Refuge for the Destitute

— Field Lane Refuge

— Green's Home 

— Guardian Society Asylum

— Home for Convalescents

— Home for Friendless Young Women of Good Character

— Home for Lost and Starving Dogs

— Homes for Working Girls in London

— 'House of Charity', Greek St.

— Houses of Refuge for the Destitute Poor

— Institution for the Houseless Poor (aka Refuge for the Destitute and Houseless Poor, Whitecross Street)

— King Street Mission Hall

— list of Charities

— list of Friendly and Benevolent Societies

— list of Philanthropic Societies

— Labour House for Destitute Youths

— Ladies Sanitary Association

— 'London Charities'

— London City Mission

— London Cottage Mission

— London Female Penitentiary (1) (2)

— London Society for Teaching the Blind to Read

— Mariners' Friend Society

— Medland Hall

— Mendicity Society

— Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes

— Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association

— Missions to Seamen

— Montagu Williams' 'Clothing Depot'

— Newport Market Refuge (1) (2)

— Order of St. John of Jerusalem

— Parochial Mission Women's Association

— problems with charity 

— pro forma letters requesting charity

— raffles (amongst costermongers)

— Raine's Charities 

— Refuge for the Houseless Poor see Institution for the Houseless ... above

— Royal Humane Society

— Royal Literary Fund

— Royal Maternity Charity

— Royal National Life-Boat Institution

— Sailors Church (from ILN, 1843)

— Sailors' Home

— St. Katherine's Hospital

— Salvation Army

— Scottish Hospital

— Seamen's Christian Friendly Society 

— 'Sick Kitchen'

— Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes

— Society for the Preservation of Life from Fire 

— Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge

— Society for the Relief of Distress

— Society for the Rescue of Young Women and Children

— Society for the Suppression of Mendicity (1) (2)

— Society for the Suppression of Vice

— soup kitchens (1) (2)

— South London Night Refuge

— supper for thieves, Deptford

— Surgical Aid Society

— The St. Marylebone Female Protection Society

— Thames Church Mission

— Theatrical Funds

— YMCA (Young Men's Christian Assoc) (1) (2)

— YWCA (Young Women's Christian Assoc.)

§ Charity Events and Activities

— a 'Charity Bazaar'

— a 'Charity Dinner' (1) (2)

— Charity Organisation Society (1) (2)

— 'Charitable Gambling'

— criticism

— patronage

— pro forma letters requesting charity

— raffles (amongst costermongers)

— tickets to the poor

§ Childrens' Charities

— Adult Orphan Institution

— Alexandra Orphanage

— Arethusa Training Ship

— Asylum for Female Orphans

— Barnardo's

— Benevolent Society of St. Patrick

— Chichester Training Ship (1) (2)

— Cornwall Training Ship 

— Deaf and Dumb Asylum

— Destitute Children's Dinner Society

— Dr. Stephenson's Children's Home

— Exmouth Training Ship  

— Female Orphan Asylum

— Field Lane Refuge

— free dinners 

— Freemasons School and Asylum for Female Orphans

— Girls' Refuge

— Infant Home

— Infant Orphan Asylum

— list of some orphanages

— London Orphan Asylum

— Marine Society

— Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum

— National Society

— Newport Market Refuge (1) (2)

— Orphan Working School

— Philanthropic Society

— Princess of Wales' Jubilee Fund

— Ragged Schools

— Refuge for Homeless and Destitute Children

— Rescue of Young Children Reformatory and Refuge Union

— Royal Caledonian Asylum

— Royal Literary Fund

— Royal Military Asylum

— St. Andrew's Home and Club for Working Boys

— St. George's and St. Giles's Refuge

— Society for the Prevention of Juvenile Prostitution

— Soldiers' Daughters' Home

— Spurgeon's Orphanage, see Stockwell Orphanage below

— Stockwell Orphanage

— training ships

— Waifs and Strays' Society (now Children's Society)

— Woodhouse, Wanstead

— Worcester Training Ship