Victorian London - Charities - Herbert Fry's Royal Guide to the London Charities

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This data is taken from Herbert Fry's Royal Guide to the London Charities from 1917.

It is in the following format, as appears in the book:-

Name of Institution ; When Founded ; Where now Situate and Address of the Office ; Objects of Information

Anyone wishing to see additionally Year's Receipts Last Reported and No. of Persons Benefited Last Year for each institution should download the tab-delimited spreadsheet version of this document and open in Excel or other spreadsheet package -
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The final two columns in the original book Where, when and how Application for Aid or Information is to be made and Chief Officials have not been digitised.

Note that the alphabetical order used in the book, reproduced below, is unpredictable ... I suggest using Edit - Find (CTRL+F) to search for individual charities by keyword. For example, the book gives:-

Anti-Vivisection Society, The London and Provincial

rather than

London and Provincial Anti-Vivisection Society, The

Actors' Benevolent Fund; 1882; 8, Adam Street, Strand, W.C.; to assist distressed members of the theatrical profession, their wives and children.

Aged and Destitute Governesses' Fund; 1887; 58, Somerleyton Rd., Brixton, S.W. (address of Sec.); Providing yearly grants of £20 to Destitute Governesses

Aged Pilgrims' Homes; 1835 Camberwell, 1871 Hornsey Rise, 1879 Stamford Hill, 1884 Brighton; --; For the residence of pensioners of the Aged Pilgrims' Friend Society

Aged Pilgrims Friend Society; 1807; 19, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.; To provide pensions of five, seven, and ten guineas per ann. for the aged Protestant Christian poor.

Agricultural - Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution; 1860; 8, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, S.W.; For the relief of destitute and retired Farmers, of not less than 65 years of age, or if disabled, of 50 years; their wives, widows, and unmarried orphan daughters of not less than 65 years; by pensions of £20 to £40 per annum.

Alleyn's College of God's Gift. Divided in 1882 into two departments - one for the management of the Estates and the Eleemosynary Branch, the other for the Educational Branch of the Charity, with separate Governing Bodies for each.; 1619; recon. 1857 and 1882; Dulwich, S.E.; Comprises 1. Dulwich Coll. (660 boys): Fees £24 or £27 per annum and an entrance fee of £1. 2. Alleyn's Sch. (610 boys); Fees, £11 10s. per annum and an entrance fee of £1. 3. Almshouses and allowances for 16 Almspeople and 25 Out-pensioners. The charitable benefits are restricted to persons belonging to the parishes of St. Saviour, Southwark, St. Luke, Middlesex, St. Botolph, Bishopsgate Without, and St. Giles, Camberwell.

All Saints Boys' Orphanage; 1877; Granville Park, Lewisham, S.E.; Trains and provides for orphan boys from 6 to 14 years old, upon part payment; a few cases admitted free.

All Saints' Convalescent Hospital for Adults and Hospital for Children; 1864; Eastbourne. Office, 83 Margaret St., London, W.; To receive invalids, men and women, to whom change of air is essential for recovery, and children who may still require nursing or surgical attendance. Lads of 14 and 15 and persons over 65 years of age ineligible.

All Saints' Home - A Sisterhood otherwise named "The Sisters of the Poor."; 1851; 82, Margaret St., Cavendish Sq., W.; Mission Work; the visiting and relief of the sick and dying poor.

Amias's Almshouses; 1655; Between 87 & 91 Old Street, E.C.; Provides 8 homes for poor respectable women in reduced circumstances, rent free, coals, and medical attendance, and £25 per annum; has also 16 annuities of £30 each for out-pensioners.

Anchorage Mission of Hope and Help; 1878; Office, Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W.; To receive and assist penitent young women who has gone astray, otherwise of good character and lately fallen, whether pregnant or not. Especial provision for better class cases.

Annuitants' Homes, "Miss Sheppard's"; 1855; In Bayswater, Hammersmith and Kensington.- Office, 27, Ossington Street, W.; To provide gratuitously homes for gentlewomen of high moral character, in reduced circumstances. Candidates must be possessed of a certain income of not less than £25 a year.

Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society; 1837; Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W. (close to Victoria Station) Tel. 6065, Victoria; To suppress slavery and the slave trade and uphold the interests of native races, especially in countries under British rule.

Anti-Vivisection Society, The London and Provincial; 1876; 22A Regent Street, London, S.W.; The legal prohibition of vivisection.

Anti-Vivisection Hospital, Battersea General Hospital (Incorporated); 1899, opened June 1902; Prince of Wales Road, Battersea Park, London, S.W.; For the relief of human suffering by physicians and surgeons who are opposed to vivisection. General Hospital for the needy and deserving. Free admission and attendance by Governor's letter.

Apprenticeship Society (The) (Founded 1829, as "The Society for Assisting to Apprentice the Children of Dissenting Ministers of Evangelical Sentiments."); 1829; 535, Mansion House Chambers, E.C.; To assist in apprenticing or preparing for business or professional life the children of Dissenting ministers of Evangelical or Free Church sentiments. (Congregational and Baptist.) Resident in England and Wales.

Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School; 1685, recon.1871; Leicester Square, W.C.; A Grammar and Commercial School for 180 boys. Upwards of £160 awarded annually in Scholarships tenable at the School.

Archbishops' Western Canada Fund; 1910; Ch. House, Westminster, S.W.; To assist Church Work in new districts in Western Canada.

Architects' Benevolent Society; 1845; 9 Conduit St., Hanover Sq., W.; To relieve poor persons belonging to the Architect's profession, their widows and orphans.

Armourers' and Brasiers' Company's Almshouses.;1551; Camden Avenue, Peckham, S.E.; To provide homes for 13 poor men and women of the Company. The Company allow 15s. to each per week out of their general funds.

Army and Navy Pensioners' and Time-Expired (12 years) Men's Employment.; 1855; 24 Buckingham Street, W.C.; To provide employment for pensioners and time-expired men of good character, who have served in the army or navy. No fees.

Army Medical Officers' Benevolent Society; 1820; 16, Tedworth Gardens, Chelsea, S.W.; To assist distressed orphans of army medical Officers, under 21 years of age.

Army Scripture Readers' and Soldiers' Friend Society.; 1850; 112, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, W.C.; To spread the saving knowledge of Christ among our soldiers.

Arneway's Trust; 1603; Victoria Chambers, 17, Victoria Street, S.W.; To lend sums of not less than £50 nor more than £200 at 3 per cent. to poor occupiers or traders resident within the Metropolis, giving bond of self and two householders as security for payment.

Artists' Benevolent Fund; 1810, Incor.1827; 6½, Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, S.W.; The relief of widows and orphans of artists who were members of the Artists' Annuity Fund.

Artists' General Benevolent Institution; 1814; 3, Charles Street, St. James's Sq., S.W.; To relieve poor painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers, whether subscribers or not, their widows and orphans.

Artists' Orphan Fund.; 1871; 3, Charles Street, St. James's Sq., S.W.; For the support and education of orphan children of painters, sculptors, architects and engravers.

Arts: Royal Academy of Arts Benevolent Funds;--;Burlington House, Piccadilly.; To assist Artists (their widows and children) under 21 who have exhibited in the Royal Academy; grants, Pensions to Artists of repute, from Turner, Cooke, Cousins, Newton, and Edwards Funds.

Association of Certified Reformatory and Industrial Schools (National); 1881; Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W.; To promote the efficiency, further the objects, to unite the efforts of Certified Reformatory and Industrial Schools in the United Kingdom.

Association of Readers for the Diocese of London; 1865; Address at London House, St. James's Square, S.W.; To increase the number and efficiency of Readers.

Association of Workhouse Aid Committee; 1910; Victoria House, Victoria St., S.W.; To strengthen the work of existing Workhouse Aid Societies, and to promote the formation of additional Societies for the aid of persons discharged from Workhouses.

Auctioneers' Benevolent Fund, The Incorporated; 1863; The Auction Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, E.C.; To assist by pension and grants members of the profession, their families, etc.

Bakers' Company's Almshouses.; 1698; St. Thomas's Sq., Hackney, E.; To provide homes and pensions of £20 per annum for decayed freemen, etc., of the Company.

Bank Clerks' Orphanage* (The Institution has no Orphanage House - the children elected are placed in educational establishments of good standing); 1883; 34, Clement's Lane, E.C.; To maintain and educate the children of deceased bank officials and clerks.

Baptist Building Fund.; 1823; Baptist Mission House, 19, Furnival St., E.C.; To assist Baptist congregations to build chapels, by loans without interest.

Baptist College; 1810; North Gate, Regent's Park.; To educate students training for Baptist ministry.

Baptist Missionary Society. Incorporated with the Women's Association; 1792; 19, Furnival St., Holborn, E.C.; To diffuse Christianity throughout the world.

Baptist Pastors' College; 1861; Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, S.E.; To prepare students for Christian ministry; also Home Missions and Evangelistic Work.

Baptist and Evangelistic Tract Section Baptist Union Publication Department.; 1841; 4, Southampton Row, London, W.C.; The distribution of denominational and general religious tracts.

Baptist Union Home Mission; 1797; Baptist Church House, Southampton Row, W.C.; To promote Baptist missions in England and Wales, and foster Evangelistic work.

Barefoot Mission and Poor Children's Aid Society.; 1887; 32, John Street, Theobald's Rd., W.C.; To aid destitute children. Has been incorporated with the Shaftesbury Society and R.S.U.

Barnardo's (Dr.) Homes: National Incorporated Association.; 1866; Head Offices, 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, London, E.; To rescue, train and place out in life destitute, orphan, and forlorn children, irrespective of age, sex, creed, or physical disability. Charter: "No destitute child ever refused admission." No red tape. No votes required. No money promise needed.

Barristers' Benevolent Association.; 1873; Address of Hon. Sec., 3, Harcourt Bldgs., Temple, E.C.; To assist necessitous members of the English Bar; their wives, widows, and children.

Battersea Mission House (in connection with the Female Aid Society, and the Battersea and Wandsworth Ladies' Association).; 1880; 3 and 4 Chivalry Rd., Battersea Rise, S.W. Offices, 117, Victoria St. Westminster, S.W.; To save young women in perilous circumstances, and to receive the fallen, especially first maternity cases.

Battersea Training College.; 1840; St. John's Training College, Battersea.; To train masters for School; recognised by the Board of Education.

Bayswater Orphanage.; 1833; 26, Kensington Park Road, W.; To receive orphan and fatherless children and train them for service.

Beer and Wine Trade Asylum and Benevolent Fund, Metropolitan.;1852; Asylum, Nunhead Green, Peckham. Office, 181, Queen Victoria St., E.C.; Homes for aged and deserving members, their wives or widows; and temporary pecuniary aid.

Belgrave Hospital for Children, The (Incorporated).; 1866; Clapham Road, S.W.; To afford medical and surgical aid to children of the poor, suffering from non-contagious diseases.

Benevolent Society (The Knights of Trafalgar).; 1826; 109, Bishopsgate St., Without.; The distribution of tickets for bread and coal to the poor of all parts of London during winter months.

Benevolent, The, or Strangers' Friend Society.; 1785; Central Buildings, Westminster, S.W.; The relief of the sick poor of the Metropolis at their own habitations, irrespective of sect or nationality, by 187 unpaid agents.

Benevolent Society of Blues; 1824; Christ's Hospital, 60 Aldersgate St., E.C.; The relief of persons education at Christ's Hospital, their widows and orphans.

Bethlem Royal Hospital; 1826; Lambeth Road, S.E. For convalescents, at Witley, near Godalming.; For the care of persons of unsound mind likely to be cured within one year, and who are not fit subjects for a county Lunatic Asylum. Preference is given to patients of the educated classes.

Bethnal Green Almshouses and School, Parmiter's Foundation for.; 1681, recon. 1884; Almshouses, Parmiter Street, Bethnal Green. School (opened in 1887), Approach Road, Victoria Park, E.; One third of the income from endowment is devoted to Charitable, and two-thirds to Educational Purposes. The School furnishes a liberal education to boys from the age of seven and upwards on passing the Entrance Examination.

Bethnal Green Free Library; 1876; London Street, E.; For the free use of the Public.

Bethnal Green Philanthropic Pension Society* [-*The East London General Pension Society has been incorporated with this Society-]; 1822; 287, Cambridge Road, Bethnal Green, N.E.; To assist the Aged Poor of Bethnal Green by Pensions, especially those who were formerly in comparative prosperity.

Bible Flower Mission; 1875; 11, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.; The distribution of flowers etc. to patients in Hospitals and Infirmaries; each bunch or article being accompanied by a text of Scripture.

Bible Lands Missions' Aid Society; 1854; 392, Strand, London, W.C.; To promote Evangelical and Philanthropic work within the lands of the Bible, which includes Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor, Persia, Arabia, Palestine, Syria and Egypt.

Bible Society, Naval and Military; 1780; 15, Strand, London, W.C.; To supply the sailors and soldiers with Scripture.

Bible Translation Society, The. (Auxiliary of the Baptist Missionary Society); 1840; 19, Furnival St., Holborn, E.C.; For the translation, printing and publishing of versions of the Sacred Scriptures, especially for circulation in Baptist Mission Fields, and fore the support of Colporteurs and Bible Women.

Bishop Billing (The) Memorial Mission; 1898; 160, Dalston Lane, N.E.; To save elder girls and young women from perilous circumstances, and to rescue the fallen.

Bishop of London's Fund.;1863; 46A, Pall Mall; For making further provision for the urgent spiritual needs of the diocese of London.

Blacksmith's Company. Prestyn's Charity; 1325; 65, Lower Thames Street, E.C.; To give pensions to poor Freemen, or widows of Freemen of the Company.

Blind and Crippled Girls' Seaside Holiday Homes; 1895; Clacton-on-Sea. Office, 8 Sekforde St., Clerkenwell, E.C.; To give blind and crippled girls a holiday at the seaside.

Blind - East London Home and School for Blind Children* [-* Certified under the Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893-]; 1874; Northumberland Houses, 2 and 4, Warwick Road, Upper Clapton, N.E.; To education and train blind children. Applicants are eligible for admission between the ages of 5 and 16, irrespective of religious distinction.

Blind - Gardner's Trust for the.; 1880; 53, Victoria St., Westminster, S.W.; For the benefit of blind persons in England and Wales.

Blind - Hetherington's and other Charities for the Aged.; 1774; Christ's Hospital, 26 & 27, Great Tower Street.; To provide pensions of £10 each to men and women, natives and residents of England, above 55 years old, and above the journeyman class, who have been totally blind for one year, have never had parish relief, and whose income does not exceed £20.

Blind, Home Teaching, Society for the.; 1855; 224, Great Portland St., W.; To provide teachers and embossed books for the blind at their own homes and in workhouses, and to established Branches in the Provinces.

Blind, Humston's Charity to.; 1777; Vestry Hall, Vine Street, Minories, E.C.; To grant pensions to five poor blind persons belonging to St. Botolph, Aldgate; St. John, Wapping; and St. Paul, Shadwell. The income is divided equally between them.

Blind, Incorporated Association for Promoting General Welfare of the (Founded by the late Miss Gilbert).; 1856; 258, Tottenham Court Road, W.C.; To promote the general welfare of the blind, especially by the industrial training and employment of adults, men and women; also grants pensions to its own employés when no longer able to work.

Blind - Indigent Blind Visiting Society; 1834; 8, Red Lion Square, W.C.; To visit and relieve the blind poor at their own homes.

Blind - Institution for the Relief of the Indigent Blind of the Jewish Persuasion; 1819; 8, Duke Street, Aldgate, E.C.; To give pensions not exceeding 10s. a week to indigent blind Jews, for life.

Blind, London Association for the.; 1857, Incor. 1888; Office, 102 Dean Street, Oxford St., W. Workshops for (1) Men, 90, Peckham Rd., S.E. Workshops for Women and (2) Showroom, 58, Rochester Row, S.W. (3) 102, Dean Street, W. (4) Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, E.; To teach trades to the needy blind, blinded soldiers and sailors, supply employment for them permanently, and generally ameliorate their social and physical condition. Sea Side Homes at Milton Haven and Worthing.

Blind, London Society for Teaching and Training the (Incorporated).; 1838; 100, Avenue Rd., Swiss Cottage, N.W. ; To teach the blind to read and write on the Braillé system, and to train them in industrial occupations. Has a workshop for adult blind. A new boys' and girls' schoolroom has been added and the entrance hall enlarged to form a saleroom for "Goods made by the Blind."

Blind Man's Friend Charity (Day's).; 1836; Clothworkers' Hall, Mincing Lane, London, E.C.; To give pensions of £12, £16 or £20 a year to deserving blind, residents in the United Kingdom, who are in distressed or dependent circumstances and not in receipt of Poor Law Relief.

Blind - National Blind Relief Society. ;1843; At the Office.; To grant pensions ranging from 5s. to £1 a month, also weekly pensions 15s and £1 to relieve the poorest of the blind poor of the United Kingdom. No creed test applies to candidates.

Blind - North London Homes for Aged Christian Blind Men and Women.; 1880; Office, 77, Hanley Rd., Crouch Hill, N., Southend Branch, "Elim" Wilson Road* [-*Terms for the Southend branch 12s 6d per week for the blind, the partially blind, and their guides.-]; To be permanent homes for aged Christian blind men and women, over 50 years of age.

Blind - Royal Blind Pension Society of the United Kingdom; 1863; 237, Southwark Bridge Road, S.E.; To grant pensions of from 10s to £1 5s. a month to Indigent Blind of good moral character, without regard to sect or creed.

Blind, Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the.; 1872; Westow Street, Upper Norwood, S.E., near the Crystal Palace.; To afford a thorough general and musical education to the youthful blind, of either sex, so as to qualify them for self-maintenance. The College comprises a Pianoforte Tuning School, a Conservatory of Music, and Smith's Training College.

Blind, Royal School for the Indigent.; 1799, Incor.1826; Highlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey.; To maintain, educate, and teach a trade to the blind, who are elected on the Foundation. Has accommodation for 250 pupils. There is also a paying section, to which pupils may belong on payment of £30 per annum.

Blind, Society for Granting Annuities to Poor Adult.; 1858; Office, 1, St. George's Circus, Southwark, S.E.; The relief of the industrial blind poor by granting them Pensions of £10 and £6 per year.

Blind, South London Association for Assisting the.; 1863; Office, 87, Bishopsgate, E.C.; To teach the blind members to read in embossed type, and the female members knitting and needlework; to grant Pensions and other relief to the aged and needy; also loans free of interest to enable members to purchase materials for work, goods for sale, or to meet pressing needs.

Blind, South London Institute for the.; 1870; Southwark Institute and Office, 83, Borough Rd., London, S.E. ; To alleviate misery and suffering amongst the blind poor of London.

Blind - The National Institute for the Blind.; 1868; Great Portland Street, London, W.; To promote the education and employment of the blind, print and distribute books, and supply all kind of apparatus for their use.

Blind, The West London Workshops for.; 1880; Vestris House, 60, High Street, Notting Hill Gate, W.; To provide work for the blind poor, and to instruct them in basket-making, chair-caning, knitting, and wood-chopping. Pupils charged 3s. 6d. to 5s. a week for teaching.

Blind - Workshop for the Blind of Kent.; 1877; 49,55, London St., Greenwich, S.E.; To teach handicrafts to, and to employ blind workmen, between 15 and 40 years of age.

Bloomsbury Dispensary; 1801; 12, Bloomsbury Street, W.C.; To provide the respectable poor with gratuitous medical and surgical aid.

Bolingbroke Hospital (Incorporated), 1897; 1880; Bolingbroke Grove, Wandsworth Common, S.W.; A Free Accident and Emergency Hospital and a Home in sickness for persons needing Hospital treatment and nursing, on payment.

Bookbinders' Pension and Asylum Society; 1830; Balls Pond Road, N. Office 7, Frederick St., King's Cross Road, W.C.; To provide a weekly pension of 6s. to 12s., and an asylum for aged and incapacitated members and their widows; also for females who have worked at the business for at least ten years.

Booksellers' Provident Institution.; 1837; Stationers' Hall Court, E.C.; The assistance of members, their widows and children.

Booksellers' Provident Restreat; 1843; Abbots Langley, Herts. Office, Stationers' Hall Court, E.C.; Provision of cottages for aged members of the Booksellers' Provident Institution.

Boot Trade (The) Benevolent Society.; 1836; Mortlake. Office, 13A, Fore Street, E.C.; Homes and pensions for old and poor members and orphans. A temporary grant.

Bowyers' Company's Exhibitions.; 1629; 11, St. Bride's Avenue, Fleet Street. Exhibitions of £6 a year each, 3 at Oxford and 2 at Cambridge; these are augmented by the Company who bestow £20 a year on each exhibitioner. For poor scholars.

Boys - Carter Home for (Dr. Barnardo's Homes); 1870; 49, High Street, Clapham, S.W.; To rescue, educate, and train orphan and destitute boys, 7 to 13 years of age, who attend school. 90 boys in residence.

Boys' Garden City, a Branch of Dr. Barnardo's Homes.; 1908; Woodford Bridge, Head Offices, 18 to 26 Stepney Causeway, E.; To give boys healthy surroundings and to train them in agricultural pursuits. 597 boys now in residence. Will accommodate 900 when complete.

Boys' Home (The); 1858; Regent's Park, N.W.; To lodge, clothe, and educate destitute boys who have not been convicted of crime.

Boys' Orphanage (The).; 1879; Montague House, Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, S.E.; To clothe, maintain, educate and suitably train poor orphan boys, on payment of £20 per annum.

Boys. - St. Andrew's Home and Club for Working Boys.; 1866; Gt. Peter Street, Westminster.; To provide a home and club for working boys, from 14 to 18 years old.

Brentry Certified Inebriate Reformatory.; 1899; Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol.; The reformation of inebriate men and women.

Brass and Copper Trades' Pension Institution.; 1831; Commercial St., E.; To give pensions to aged and infirm members of those trades and the widows of subscribers.

Bridge of Hope Mission; 1879; 8 Cottage Training Homes at Chingford; Refuge and Receiving Home, Betts Street, St. George's-in-the-East, E.; Rescue and Preventive Work among girls and children; Mission Work among the poor.

British and Foreign Bible Society.; 1804; 146, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.; To publish the Holy Scripture in all languages without note or comment, and to circulate them throughout the world.

British and Foreign Sailors' Society (Incorporated); 1818; Passmore Edwards Sailors' Palace, Limehouse, London; The religious, intellectual, and social elevation of British and foreign seamen, both in home and foreign ports.

British and Foreign School Society; 1808; Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, E.C.; Promoting education at home and abroad, and maintaining training colleges for school teachers.

British and Foreign Unitarian Association (incorporated); 1825; Essex Hall, Essex St., Strand, W.C.; For the promotion of the principles of Unitarian Christianity at home and abroad.

British Hairdressers' Benevolent and Provident Institution; 1837; 15, Langham Place, W.; To assist members and the widows of deceased members if in need by annuities or grants.

British Home and Hospital for Incurables.; 1861; Crown Lane, Streatham, S.W. Office, 72, Cheapside, E.C.; To provide for persons of the middle classes afflicted with incurable disease, and over 35 years of age, a home or a pension of £20 per annum, during remainder of life.

British Orphan Schools (Royal); 1827; Slough, Berks. Offices, 27, St. Clement's Lane, E.C.; For the maintenance of fatherless children of those once in prosperity.

British Society for Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews; 1842; 9, Great James St., Bedford Row, W.C.; To propagate the Gospel among the Jews, at home and abroad, and support aged Hebrew Christians in a Home established for the purpose.

British Syrian Mission; 1860; Grosvenor House, The Ridgway, Wimbledon; The religious and industrial training of Syrian women and children.

Brixton Orphanage for Fatherless Girls; 1876; Barrington Road, Brixton, S.W.; To support 250 fatherless girls and train them for domestic service. The institution is unsectarian, and receives girls from all parts of the United Kingdom.

Brown Animal Sanatory Institution (Under the Government of the University of London); 1871; 148, Wandsworth Rd., Vauxhall, S.W.; An institution for studying and endeavouring to cure the diseases of quadrupeds or birds useful to man, without charge beyond immediate expense for food and medicine.

Brompton Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest.; 1841; Brompton, S.W.; The treatment of consumption and all other diseases of the chest.

Bruce Hall Mission; 1893; Bruce Hall, Chatham Place, Hackney, N.E.; The moral, physical, and spiritual well-being of children and young people.

Builders' Benevolent Institution. ; 1847; Koh-i-Noor House, Kingsway, W.C.; To give pensions to aged needy members of trade, and to their widows.

Builders' Clerks' Benevolent Institution.; 1866; Koh-i-Noor House, Kingsway, W.C.; To provide pensions and grants to aged Builders' clerks and their widows, and to maintain and educate their orphan children.

Builders' Foremen and Clerks of Works' Provident Institution; 1842; 9, Conduit Street, Regent Street, W.; To assist necessitous members and their families.

Butchers' Charitable Institution.; 1828; Office, 61, West Smithfield, E.C. Almshouses, Walham Green.; The relief of distressed master butchers, master pork-butchers, cattle and meat commission salesmen and hide and skin salesmen, their widows and orphans.

Cab-drivers' Benevolent Association; 1870; 15 Soho Square, W.; To assist cabmen in distress, who are members of the association, their widows and orphans; to promote mutual help among cabmen, and to provide a Pension Fund for the aged or infirm.

Cabmen's Shelter Fund.; 1875; 48 Dover Street, Piccadilly, W.; To erect and maintain "Shelters" in which are supplied temperance refreshments at the lowest prices, under charge of attendants, for metropolitan cabmen when on the ranks.

Camberwell Provident Dispensary; 1862; Camberwell Park; To give medical aid to the poor.

Cambridge - Royal Cambridge Asylum; 1851; Kingston-upon-Thames. Office, 5, York St., St. James' Square, S.W.; To provide a home for widows of non-commissioned Officers and privates of the Army of not less than 50 years of age, and assistance to a few out-pensioners.

Campden Charities, The; 1629; 62, Church Street, Kensington; For the benefit of the poor of Kensington only.

Campden Technical Institute (The); 1895; Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, W.; Maintenance of Technical Classes for young men and women, boys and girls.

Cancer Hospital (Free) (Incorporate under Royal Charter); 1851; Fulham Road, Brompton, S.W.; To treat free of charge the necessitous poor suffering from cancer, tumours or allied diseases.

Caron's Almshouses (Founded by Sir Noel Caron); 1622; Fentiman Road, South Lambeth; To provide homes for 7 poor women of Lambeth over 60 years old, each of whom receives 7s. per week.

Carpenters' Company - Read's Charity; --; London Wall, E.C.; An exhibition of £4, increased by the company to £34, to a Cambridge scholar.

Carpenters' Company; --; As above.; Two exhibitions of £25 each, tenable at either Oxford or Cambridge.

Cass's (Sir John) Foundation; 1710; Jewry Street, Aldgate, E.C. ; (1) The Foundation School. A Senior and Junior Elementary mixed school. Preference and certain privileges to children whose parents are and have been resident or employed for over 12 months in the Eastern wards of the City. (2) Sir John Cass Technical Institute. Evening Classes in Chemistry, Physics, Metallurgy, Art Metal Work, Drawing, Tailor Cutting, etc.

Cat's Home; 1885; Battersea Park Road, S.W.; To afford food and shelter to lost and starving cats.

Central Africa, Universities Mission to; 1861; 9, Dartmouth St., Westminster; To promote and foster true religion and civilization among the natives of Central Africa

Central Foundation Schools of London; Boys' School, 1866, Girls' School, 1726, re-organ. 1891; Boys' School and Office, Cowper St., City Road, E.C.; Girls' School, Spital Square, E.; To provide an Education suitable for the children of Clerks and others employed in the City or suburbs. The charge for tuition is £6 6s. a year in the Boys' School, and £6 or £4 10s. a year, according to age, in the Girls' School.

Central London Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital; 1874; Gray's Inn Road, near King's Cross Station, Metropolitan Railway; The medical and surgical relief of the poor suffering from diseases of the throat, ear, or nose. Free to those bring a "Subscriber's Letter." Small contributions are invited from those in work towards the expense of treatment if unprovided with a Subscriber's letter.

Certified Industrial School for Girls (founded by Mrs. Fry); 1825; Elm House, Parson's Green, S.W.; The reformation of dishonest, neglected or destitute female children. They are boarded, clothed and educated in the principles of the Church of England, and trained to industrial pursuits.

Charing Cross Hospital; 1818; West Strand, near Charing Cross, W.C.; The relief of the sick and injured poor.

Charity Organisation; 1869; Central Office, Denison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Rd., S.W.; To organize charitable effort, and to improve the condition of the poor.

Charterhouse; 1611; The Hospital, Charterhouse Square, E.C. The School (was removed in 1872), Godalming, Surrey; To provide maintenance and home for old men, who have fallen into adversity. The School has 60 Scholarships for boys on foundation, open by competitive examinations to boys between 12 and 16; and 20 exhibitions at the Universities.

Chelsea Benevolent Society; 1838; Pier Hotel, Oakley Street, Chelsea; The temporary relief and medical attention of poor at their own dwellings, and granting weekly allowances to aged deserving persons.

Chelsea, Brompton and Belgrave Provident Dispensary; 1812; --; see page 274 under Tuberculin

Chesham Home for Invalids and Convalescents, and those requiring a holiday rest; 1866; 12, Upper Rock Gardens, Brighton; To receive invalid respectable women, engaged in business, in teaching, or in missionary work.

Cheshunt College, Cambridge, on the foundation of Selina, Countess of Huntingdon; 1768; Cambridge. Office, 37, Memorial Hall, E.C.; The training of suitable young men for the Christian ministry.

Cheyne Hospital for Sick and Incurable Children; 1875; Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W.; To receive children between 3 and 12 years old, suffering from chronic or incurable ailments, on payment of 4s. per week. Certain Free and Assisted Cots have been founded for specially necessitous cases. Has 50 beds. County branch, St. Nicholas-at-Wade, Kent. 30 beds.

"Chichester" - see "Arethusa" and Training Ships; 1866, Incorp. 1904; Moored off Greenhithe, Kent; To support and train poor boys of good character who wish to go to sea. Age of admission from13½ to 15 years of age. The Ships belong to the National Refuges.

Children - Destitute Children's Dinner Society; 1866; No Office, Dining-rooms in all parts of London; To provide poor children attending County Council and other Schools with good meat dinners, on the payment of a sum never exceeding one penny per child.

Children, Evelina Hospital for Sick; 1869; Southwark Bridge Road, S.E.; For poor sick children not suffering from infectious disease - boys to 10 and girls to12 years of age as in-patients, but out-patients of either sex to 14 years. Has 76 cots and a very complete outpatients' department.

Children, Hospital and Home for Incurable (Incorporated); 1875; Northcourt College Crescent, Hampstead, N.; To provide for the care, maintenance, and medical treatment of children suffering from chronic or incurable disease of an aggravated character.

Children's League of Kindness for Children in South London; 1889; 24, Buckingham Gate, S.W.; To give assistance in cases of child distress in South London. Individually helped.

Children - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (Incorporated by Royal Charter); 1884; 40, Leicester Square.; To prevent the public and private wrongs of children, and the corruption of their morals, and to secure for every child the right to live an endurable life.

Children - Paddington Green Children's Hospital. Convalescent Home.; Aug., 1883; Paddington Green, W.; To afford medical and surgical relief to sick children of the poor - boys under 12 years of age and girls under 14. Has 46 cots. Convalescent Home at "Fair View," Slough, Bucks (for 16 children in the winter and 24 in the summer).

Children - St. Monica's Home Hospital for Sick Children; 1874; 16, Brondesbury Park, N.W.; For surgical and medical patients needing a long course of treatment.

Children's Aid Society; 1856; Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W.; To assist in the rescue and maintenance of destitute and neglected children. Has an Agency at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The Society is a Branch of the Reformatory and Refuge Union.

Children's and Invalids' Dinner-Table and Soup Kitchen.; 1866; St. Paul's, Portman Square, Mission House, 76, East St., Marylebone; To give soup from November to April; hot meat dinners, beef tea and rice milk daily from November to the end of April, to the poor.

Children's Country Holidays Fund; 1884; 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.; To send poor children to the country for a fortnight's fresh air. Owing to the War less than half the usual number of children were sent away.

Children's Dinners - "Good Shepherd" Christian Mission Institute, and Ragged Schools.; 1868; 5, Wagner St., near Old Kent Road Railway Sta., S.E.; To teach, clothe, and feed poor little children.

Children's Fresh Air Mission; 1882; 75, Lambs Conduit St., W.C.; To provide poor sickly London children with fresh air and food and lodging for two or three weeks at a time in cottages in the country.

Children's Home-Hospital; 1891; Barnet, Hadley-Highstone; To receive children of the Poor requiring surgical treatment. 3s. 6d. per week has to be paid for each child.

China Inland Mission; 1865; Newington Green, N.; Mission work in the interior provinces of China.

Chiswick Mission; 1880; 90, Thornton Avenue, Chiswick, W.; To carry on a Gospel Mission among the poor. It is unsectarian.

Choir Benevolent Fund; 1851; 16, Amwell Street, E.C.; To provide for aged and invalided members, and to give temporary assistance to widows and orphans of organists and lay clerks of cathedral and collegiate choirs who have been members.

Christ's Hospital (or Bluecoat School); 1553; Office, 26-27 Great Tower St., E.C. Boys' and Preparatory Schools at West Horsham, Sussex; Girls' School at Hertford; The maintenance and education of children from 9 to 15 or 17 years of age, with some extension in favour of advanced scholars.

Christian Colportage Association for England; 1874; 37, Farringdon Street, E.C.; The dissemination of the Scriptures and Christian publications in all parts of the Kingdom in town and country, by means of Colporteurs, of whom about 100 are now employed.

Christian Community; 1685; Memorial Hall, London Street, Bethnal Gr., E.; To preach the Gospel and to visit the sick poor. Has a Holiday Home for Children and distributes free meals to the poor.

Christian Evidence Society; 1870; 34 Craven St., W.C.; To declare and defend Christianity and check unbelief and scepticism.

Christian Literature Society for India (formerly called Christian Vernacular Education Society); 1858; 35, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C.; To publish Christian books in the Indian languages.

Christian (The) Union Almshouses; 1832; 27 & 28 Crawford Place, Edgware Rd., and 233-235, Marylebone Road, N.W.; For 60 persons above 60 years of age, of the Protestant church, and possessing an income of at least 4s. 6d. per week, independent of Parish Relief. Single men and widowers are not eligible.

Christian Witness Fund.; 1843; 22, Memorial Hall, E.C.; To assist aged Congregational ministers.

Church Army, The; 1882; Head-quarters: 55, Bryanston Street, Marble Arch, W.; To provide working-men evangelists and mission sisters to aid the clergy in parochial rescue and slum work, and labour homes, etc. for outcasts and destitute men, women, and boys. The army is also certified by the Home Office as a Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society for the convict prisons. Emigration.

Church Association.; 1865; 13 & 14, Buckingham St., Strand.; To uphold the doctrines of the Church of England and to counteract all efforts to assimilate her services to those of the Church of Rome.

Church Building Society, Incorporated; 1818; 7, Dean's Yard, Westminster Abbey, S.W.; To promote the enlargement, building and repairing of churches, chapels, and mission buildings in England and Wales.

Church Committee (Central) for Defence and Instruction; 1859; Church House, Westminster; The maintenance of the Church as an establishment, and the instruction of the people in her history.

Church (The) Emigration and Commendation Society (*The Society is glad to book the passages of Church-people desiring to travel to the Dominions either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Class. It is not a Society for alleviation of distress.); 1886; Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W.; To promote by careful commendation the spiritual welfare of members of the Church of England, at home and overseas, and thus strengthen the Church throughout the British Empire. Duplicate letters of commendation free of cost. Passages arranged and booked; financial help occasionally given to emigrants.

Church Extension Association; 1864; 27 Kilburn Park Road, N.W.; To the extension of the Church of England by means of Missions and Educational and Philanthropic Agencies.

Church Missionary Society; 1799; Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, Fleet St, E.C.; To evangelise the heathen and Mahommedan world.

Church of England Incorporated Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays; 1881; Office: Old Town Hall, Kennington Road, London, S.E.; To provide homes for destitute, orphans, and outcast children of both sexes.

Church of England Scripture Readers' Association; 1844; Falcon Court, 32, Fleet Street, E.C.; To provide Lay Readers to visit, under direction of the parochial Clergy, from house to house, explaining the Word of God to the poor, the sick, and the ignorant, and helping generally in social and spiritual work.

Church of England Sunday School Institute (Incorporated); 1843; 13, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, E.C.; To extend and improve Church of England Sunday Schools, by providing publications, examinations, and organizing agents.

Church of England Temperance Society, Incorporated; 1862; 50 Marsham St., Westminster, S.W.; To promote habits of temperance, to reform the intemperate and to remove the causes of intemperance.

Church of England Zenana Missionary Society; 1880; Lonsdale Chambers, 27, Chancery Lane, W.C.; For Evangelistic Medical and Educational work among the women of India and China.

Church of Ireland Sustentation Fund (London Committee in Aid); 1871; Address of Hon. Secretary: 29, Eaton Terrace, S.W.; To provide a fund for the assistance of the Church of Ireland by aid for stipend to the poorest parishes.

Church Parochial Mission Society; 1876; Church House, Westminster, S.W.; To provide an adequate staff of Mission preachers, and otherwise to promote Parochial Missions at home.

Church Pastoral-Aid Society (Home Missions of the Church of England); 1836; Falcon Court, 32, Fleet St.; To provide additional curates, lay agents, and women workers in poor and crowded parishes.

Church Penitentiary Association (Incorporated); 1851; Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster; For founding and supporting houses of mercy and refuges throughout the country.

Church Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses Benevolent Institution; 1857; The National Society's House, Gt. Peter St., Westminster; To afford temporary an permanent relief to teachers of public elementary schools, their widows and orphans.

City Dispensary; 1789; 29 and 30, College St., Dowgate Hill; To provide advice and medicine gratuitously for the poor, and attendance either at the Dispensary or at their own homes.

City of London College; 1848; White St. and Ropemaker St., Moorfields, E.C.; To provide instruction for young men and women, by means of classes, lectures and library.

City of London and East London Dispensary; 1849; 40, Wilson St., Finsbury, E.C. Office 58, Lombard Street, E.C.; To provide medical relief for the sick poor.

City of London Freemen's Orphan School; 1854; Ferndale Road, Brixton, S.W.; To maintain and educate orphan children of freemen of the City of London, eligible from the age of 7 years. Children retained at the school until the age of 15.

City of London General Pension Society; 1818; 6, Wool Exchange, Basinghall St., E.C.; To give permanent pensions to decayed artisans, mechanics, manufacturers, and tradesmen, and their widows, not to exceed 31s. per calendar month to the men, and 22s. to the women.

City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest (Victoria Park Hospital); 1848; Victoria Park, E.; The relief of indigent persons afflicted with consumption and other diseases of the chest.

City of London School; 1834; Thames Embankment, E.C.; A first-grade public day school for sons of gentlemen, from 7 to 19 years of age (especially those connected with the City), paying 15 guineas per annum. Has numerous valuable exhibitions.

City of London School for Girls; 1894; Carmelite Street, Victoria Embankment; The education of Girls from 7 to 19 years of age, in useful learning, and the higher branches of literature.

City of London Truss Society; 1807; 35, Finsbury Sq., E.C.; To afford relief to the ruptured poor throughout the kingdom by providing trusses and other instruments upon one letter of recommendation from a Governor.

Clapham General and Provident Dispensary; 1849; 42, Manor Street, Clapham, S.W.; To provide medical aid for the poor.

Clapham Maternity Hospital; 1889; Jeffreys Road, entrance Bloomfield Rd., Clapham, S.W.; The delivery of women in the hospital or at their own homes by qualified medical women, also of the better class of unmarried girls from Rescue Homes; and their training of midwives and monthly nurses. Ante-Natal treatment and school for mothers.

Clergy Ladies Homes; 1862; Homes, 23,25,27 and 29 Formosa Street, Maida Hill, and 61, Westmoreland Road, Westbourne Park, W.; To provide comfortable and private apartments for widows and unmarried daughters, not under forty years of age, of deceased clergy, having an income not under £40, nor over £80.

Clergy Orphan Corporation; 1749; Boys' School, St. Edmund's School, Canterbury; Girls' Schools, St. Margaret's School, Bushey, Herts, and Gwestfa, Manordilo, S. Wales. Office, 35, Parliament St., S.W.; To clothe, educate, and maintain the poor orphans of clergymen of the Church of England and Wales, and to assist them in beginning life.

Clergy Pensions Institution; 1886; 11, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C.; Augmentation of Annuities paid for by the Clergy themselves.

Clothworkers' Co.'s Charities; --; Clothworkers' Hall, 41, Mincing Lane, E.C.; The following sundry charities, inter alia:-

Coachbuilders' (Master) Benevolent Institution; 1856; 7, King St., Baker St., Portman Sq.; To grant relief and annuities to masters, clerks, or managers, their widows and children

Coachmakers' (Operative) Benevolent Society; 1860; 113, Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, W.; To provide pensions of 8s. per week for infirm and disabled members.

Coffee and Eating House Keepers' Association, The London; 1837; Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, London, E.C.; To provide pensions for aged and decayed members and their widows; also to give relief to such others of the trade, their widows and children, as are in distress.

Collard Almshouses; 1859; 195, Hoe Street, Walthamstow; Homes for ten poor and deserving men.

Colonial Bishoprics' Fund; 1841; 15, Tufton St., Westminster; To endow additional bishoprics in our colonies and dependencies.

Colonial and Continental Church Society; 1823; 9, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet St., E.C.; To supply clergymen, lay evangelists, schoolmasters, to the Colonies of Great Britain, and to British residents in other parts of the world.

Colonial Missionary Society (Incorporated); 1836; 22, Memorial Hall, Farringdon St.; Aids Missionaries to our Colonies, and other parts of the world, to promote Evangelical religion, according to the doctrines of Congregational Churches.

Columbia Diocesan Committee; 1859; Messrs. Cox & Co., 16, Charing Cross, S.W.; To supply spiritual instruction, in accordance with the tenets of the Church of England, to emigrants, settlers, to native Indians and Chinese, in Vancouver Island and the Isles.

Commercial Travellers' Benevolent Institution; 1849; 11, Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside, E.C.; To grant pensions not exceeding £50 per annum to needy members, or of £30 to their widows.

Commercial Travellers' Schools, The, for Orphan and Necessitous Children; 1845; Pinner, Middlesex. Offices, 17, Cheapside, E.C.; To support and educate, between the ages of 5 and 15 years, the children of deceased and necessitous commercial travellers.

Commissionaires, Corps of.; 1859; Exchange Court, 419A, Strand, W.C.; To obtain employment for soldiers and sailors (pensioners or reserve) of good character, as clerks, servants, messengers, porters, watchmen, time-keepers, etc.

Congregational (English) Chapel Building Society; 1853; Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., E.C.; To help the building of Congregational Chapels and Manses with practical guidance and money.

Congregational Church Aid and Home Missionary Society; 1819, re-organised 1878; Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., E.C.; To aid weak churches in the maintenance of the ministry, and to provide for the preaching of the Gospel among the neglected population of England and Wales.

Congregational Pastors' Retiring Fund; 1860; Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, E.C.; To provide annuities for Congregational pastors no longer able efficiently to discharge their duties.

Congregational Pastors' Widows' Fund' 1871; Ditto; To provide annuities for the widows of Congregational pastors.

Consumptive Females, Home for; 1863; 57-58, Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W.; To provide on payment of one guinea entrance fee, and 8s. a week, the comforts of a permanent home for respectable young women suffering from consumption.

Convalescent Dinners Society; 1882; Hon. Secretary's address, 114, Queen's Gate, S.Kensington; To assist convalescent poor in recovering strength.

Convalescent Home, Female, London and Brighton; 1870; Brighton; Crescent House, 99, Marine Parade.; To provide change of air and diet, on payment of 9s. per week, for sick and needy workingmen's wives, young women in Government services, houses of business, and domestic servants. A small wing has been opened for cases recovering from more serious illness.

Convalescent Home for Poor Children; 1869; West Hill Road, St. Leonard's-on-Sea; For poor children, admitted by subscriber's letter, or on payment of 32s. per month in advance.

Convalescent Home for Children; 1870; Hawkenbury, Tunbridge Wells; For the reception of convalescent children, from April 1st to October 1st, subscribers 5s. 6d., non-subscribers, 7s. 6d. per week; October 1st to April 1st, subscribers and non-subscribers, 5s. 6d. per week.

Convalescent Home, Felixstowe (Branch of Dr. Barnardo's Homes); 1886; 5 & 6 Chelsea Villas, Felixstowe, Head Offices, 18 to 26 Stepney Causeway, London, E.; A Holiday Home accommodating at a time about 40 orphan and destitute boys and girls alternately sent down from Dr. Barnado's Homes.

Convalescent Home for Ladies; 1880; Bognor; For the wives, widows, or daughters of gentlemen.

Convalescent Home for Men; 1870; Ditto; To receive convalescents from the London Hospitals and others.

Convalescent Home (The Reckit); 1908; Clacton-on-sea. Office, Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway; For patients of the Great Northern Central Hospital and Others.

Convalescent Home for Women and Girls (all respectable). A small Wing for Mothers and their infants up to 9 months; 1890; Littlestone-on-Sea, nr. Hythe, Kent. Office, 33, Laurie Park Rd., Sydenham.; A Christian Convalescent Home for women and girls between the ages of 6 and 80 in need of change of air and rest. It has 40 beds in main building, and 5 beds and cots in Wing.

Convalescent Home, Homoeopathic; 1888; 36, Enys Road, Eastbourne; For convalescent poor women and children.

Convalescent Home: St. John's Home for Convalescent and Crippled Children; also a School and Training Home for Orphan Girls; 1875; Walpole Road, Kemp Town, Brighton; To receive poor convalescent and crippled children, on payment of 9s. each week, or by subscribers' letters free. Also, a home for orphan girls, who are admitted between the age of 5 and 8.

Convalescent Homes, The Friendly Societies; 1869; Herne Bay and Dover. Office, 63, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.' For convalescents, members of Friendly Societies and others, by subscriber's letter, or on easy payment.

Convalescent Homes. (In connection with The Railway Mission); 1887; West Hill, St. Leonard's-on-Sea and 75, Promenade, Southport. Office, 1, Adam Street, Strand, London, W.C.; To provide Convalescent Homes for sick and injured railway men only.

Convalescent Home (Miss Marsh's); 1866; Beachfield, Worthing; To receive convalescents needing change of air. Subscribers of 2 guineas recommend 2 patients for 3 weeks at a charge of 5s. 6d. for men, 3s.6d. for women; non-subscribers, 12s. 6d. men, 10s. 6d. women.

Convalescent Home - Paddington Green Children's Hospital; 1902; "Fair View", Slough, Bucks. Office, Children's Hos., Paddington Green; For patients from the Children's Hospital, Paddington. The Convalescent Home provides accommodation for 16 children in the winter and 24 in the summer months.

Convalescents. - Thomas Banting's Memorial Home for; 1874; Marine Parade, Worthing; For convalescent gentlewomen, stinted in means and needing sea air. (Founded and endowed by the late Mr. T. Banting.)

Cook's (Cap.), Dame Alice Row's and Daplyn's Charities; 1673; Almshouses have been pulled down; Assists 8 poor widows of seamen resident in Mile End Old Town.

Corn Exchange Benevolent Society; 1863; Corn Exchange, Mark Lane, London, E.C.; To give donations not exceeding £20 and pensions of from £10 to £100 to decayed members of the society in the corn, seed, malt, flour and grannery keeping trades of London, their widows and fatherless children, or other relatives dependent upon them at their decease.

"Cornwall" Training Ship; 1859; Off Purfleet, Essex. Office, 66, Coleman Street, E.C.; Trains juvenile offenders for sea, under Reformatory Schools Act. Government contributes to the extent of about £4000 per annum.

Corporation of London Benevolent Fund; 1879; Guildhall, E.C.; To assist necessitous persons who have been members of the Corporation, their widows and children, since 1874.

Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy; 1655; Corporation House, Bloomsbury Place, W.C.; To afford continuous or occasional assistance to necessitous Clergymen of the Church in England and Wales, pensioning and assisting their widows and aged single daughters, and providing grants towards the education, apprenticeship, or outfit of clergy children.

Country Towns Mission Society; 1837; 12, Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street, E.C.; To supply Missionaries to country districts in England and Wales, where their is a lack of gospel teaching.

Creche: Marie Hilton (Dr. Barnardo's Homes); 1871; 12 & 14, Stepney Causeway, London, E.; To receive infants and young children during the day while their mothers are at work.

Cripples' Home, and Industrial School fro Girls; 1851; Halliwick, Bush Hill Rd., Winchmore Hill, N.; For the reception and training in needlework of poor crippled girls, and for training able-bodied girls as domestic servants.

Cripples: The Dartmouth Home for Poor Crippled Boys.; 1870. Reblt. 1895; Eastnor House, Blackheath, S.E.; To provide moral and religious education and industrial training for boys, cripples, from 8 to 13 years old, and to put them out in life.

Cripples Hospital and College, The lord Mayor Treloar; 1907; Alton, Hants. London Office, 61, Moorgate St., E.C.; Hospital treatment of children up to 12 years, suffering from active tuberculous disease of the bones or joints. College Technical training of cripple lads 14 to 18 years of age.

Cripples' Nursery for Boys and Girls.; 1862; 29, Park Road, Clarence Gate, Regent's Park, N.W.; A home, with relgious instruction, and medical aid, for cripples, from 3 to 12 years of age, on payment of £14 per annum.

Cripples: St. Vincent's Surgical and Industrial Home for Crippled Boys; 1907; St. Vincent's, Eastcote, Pinner; Open-air hospital for boys suffering from tubercular and other joint diseases, infantile paralysis, etc.

Cumberland Benevolent Institution; 1734; 17, Gracechurch Street, E.C.; Payment of 30s. monthly and Grants to aged and infirm natives of Cumberland and their widows, residing within 20 miles of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Customs and Excise Orphanage and Widows Fund; 1866; H.M. Customs, London, E.C.; To maintain and educate destitute children of deceased Officers of the Customs and Excise, and to assist widows of deceased members.

Dairymen : Metropolitan Dairymen's Benevolent Institution; 1874; 57, Chancery Lane, W.C.; To assist aged and infirm members and their wives or widows, by pensions or otherwise, and the orphans of annuitants by gratuities.

Dalston Refuge; 1805; Manor House, Dalston Lane, E.; To reform female criminals and train them for domestic service. 5s. a week is charged for each inmate; Government cases free.

Datchelor (Mary) Girls' School; 1875; School at Grove Lane, Camberwell. Office, Clothworkers' Hall, E.C.; A Day School for girls. Fees £11 5s. each per annum.

Davis's Almshouses; 1795; Queen's Head St., Islington, N.; Homes and pensions of £5 or £6 each for 8 poor men and their wives or widows, who are over 50 years of age and members of the Church of England.

Deaconess Institution London Diocesan; 1861; 12, Tavistock Crescent, Westbourne Park, W. Convalescent Home at Westgate-on-Sea; To revive The Order of Deaconesses and to visit the sick, and aid the clergy in their work amongst the poor.

Deaconess Mission and Christian Instruction Society; 1825; 116, Grosvenor Road, Highbury New Park, N.; The extension of Christ's Kingdom amongst the sick and poor through the ministry of nurses and Deaconesses appointed to various Churches and Missions, and helped by a grant from the Society whenever possible.

Deaf and Dumb, Association for the Oral Instruction of the, School for Children and a Training College for Teachers; 1870; 11, Fitzroy Square, W.; To instruct the deaf and so-called dumb by speaking and lip-reading only; and to train teachers for the deaf on this method.

Deaf and Dumb - Charitable and Provident Society for Aged and Infirm; 1836; 419, Oxford St., W.; To grant small pensions, from £6 to £12 a year, to poor deaf and dumb persons who are above 60, until 70 years of age, or so infirm as to be unable to earn their living.

Deaf. - Royal School for Deaf and Dumb Children (founded in Old Kent Road, London); 1792; Margate. Office, 93, Cannon Street, E.C.; For the support and education of deaf and dumb children.

Deaf and Dumb Females, British Asylum for; 1851; Lower Clapton. Office, 179, Lower Clapton Road, N.E.; To educate, mentally, technically, and manually deaf and dumb females, above 10 years of age, and provide religious instruction. It is also a Home for the aged and homeless infirm.

Deaf and Dumb and Blind Children's Home (Dr. Barnardo's Homes); 1900; Chester House, Downs Park Rd., Hackney, N.E. Head Offices, 18-26, Stepney Causeway, London, E.; To train deaf and dumb boys and girls in house duties, art weaving, needlework, tailoring, baking, boot-making, mat-making, woodwork, and other trades. Inmates attend L.C.C. schools.

Deaf and Dumb, Royal Association in Aid of; 1840; St. Saviour's Church, 419, Oxford St., W.; To provide religious instruction and employment for, and to instruct, visit and relieve pecuniarily, the deaf and dumb of the metropolis.

Destitute Sailors' Fund; 1827; Well Street, near London Docks, and Sailors' Rest, at Gravesend; To supply shelter, food, and clothing to destitute seamen of all nations, and obtain employment for them. Supported solely by voluntary charity.

Disabled Missionaries Widows and Orphans Fund of the London City Mission; 1843; 3, Bridewell Place, E.C.; To provide a maintenance for worn-out missionaries and assistance for the widows and orphans of missionaries of the London City Mission.

Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies, Central Committee of; 1883; Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W.; To promote the work of Discharged Prisoners' Aid Societies, and to act as a centre for all such Societies.

Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society (Holloway); Mar, 1904, Certified.; House of Help, Highbury. Office, Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W.; To befriend and assist women on their discharge from H.M.Prison, Holloway. Management by Committee.

Discharged Prisoners, Royal Society for the Assistance of; 1857; 32, Charing Cross; To assist discharged prisoners of both sexes, to procure them employment, and put them in the way of leading an honest life.

Discharged Prisoners - St. Giles's Christian Mission and Work Among; 1877; Offices, 15, Gray's Inn Rd., Holborn. Has branches at Holloway, Pentonville, Wandsworth, Boys' Homes at 5, Greville St., Hatton Garden, 15, Gray's Inn Rd., Holborn; and new Home Wild Street, Kingsway.; To assist the better class of discharged prisoners by employment and in other ways. The reclamation of juvenile offenders, who are cared for in the Homes of the Mission, also the reception and assistance of cases bound over under The Probation of Offenders Act.

Discharged Prisoners' Aid, Surrey and South London Society; 1824; H.M.'s Prison, Wandsworth; To assist prisoners on discharge from prison.

Dissenting Ministers:- Congregational and Baptist, usually called The Apprenticeship Society; 1829; 535, Mansion House Chambers, E.C.; To assist in apprenticing or preparing for business or professional life the children of Dissenting ministers of Evangelical sentiments. Congregational and Baptist. Resident only in England and Wales.

Dissenting Ministers' (Protestant) Widows' Fund; 1733; See Secretary's address; The relief of necessitous widows of Dissenting ministers. Yearly grants are made to those on the register list, and donations to others.

Distressed Gentlefolks' Aid Association; 1897; 75, Brook Green, W.; Relief of distressed Ladies and Gentlemen by small grants; preference given to aged and infirm. Management by Committee. To make the grant less of the nature of a charity dole, applicants are asked to consider the grant as a loan if they are ever able to repay it.

Domestic Servants' Benevolent Institution; 1846; 199, Piccadilly, W.; To relieve aged and afflicted servants by pensions and temporary assistance, and to provide situations for its members.

Dr. Bray: The association established by the late Rev. Dr. Bray and his associates; 1709; 15, Tufton St., Westminster; The establishment of theological libraries for clergymen and students for Holy Orders at home and abroad; also the support of schools for natives in the Bahamas.

Drury Lane Theatrical Fund; 1766, incor. 1775; 14, Henrietta St., Covent Garden, W.C.; The support of indigent members of H.M. Company of Comedians, subscribers to the fund, their widows and children.

Dudley Stuart Home; 1852; 76, Junction Rd., Upper Holloway, N.; To afford a home for training young girls for domestic service.

Duke of York's Royal Military School; 1801; Temporarily location at Hutton, near Brentwood.; To maintain and educate the orphan children of Soldiers of the Regular Army, who are admitted between 9 and 11 years old, and leave at 14.

Dutch Almshouses; 1580; Charlton, S.E.; Homes for poor aged members of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, E.C.

Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Metropolitan (Incorporated); 1838; 2, Fitzroy Square, W.; The special treatment of affections of the ear, throat and nose. Free to the necessitous poor, but small payments are required from those who can afford them.

Early Closing Association; 1842; 3, Tudor Street, E.C.; To abridge excessive hours of labour in shops and warehouses. Shop assistants obtain other advantages.

East-End Mothers' Lying-In Home; 1884; 394, 396 & 398, Commercial Rd., E.; To receive poor married women during child-birth, free of cost; also, the training of midwives and nurses to attend on the poor at their own homes. There is also an Out-patients' Department.

Eastern Dispensary; 1782; Leman Street, Whitechapel; The medical and surgical treatment of the poor, and when requested, at their own homes.

East London Church Fund; 1880; 70, Hamilton House, Bishopsgate, E.C.; To aid the work of the Church of England in the North, Central and East of London, by increasing the number of clergy and lay-helpers in the poorest and most populous parishes.

East London Hospital for Children and Dispensary for Women; 1868; Shadwell, E. Has a Convalescent Home for Children at Bognor.; To receive sick children as in-patients, and women and children as out-patients.

Edwards's Almshouses; 1717; Burrell Street, Blackfriars Rd., S.E.; Homes, coals, and 10s. per week for 40 aged poor women who have resided 5 years in the parish of Christ-church, Blackfriars Road, who do not receive parish relief; 10s. per week for 18, and 7s. per week for 32 out-pensioners.

Eltham College : School for the Sons of Missionaries; 1842; Mottingham, Kent, S.E.; To maintain and educate the sons and orphans of Evangelical missionaries connected with certain British Societies, on payment of 21 guineas, or 18 guineas per ann.

Emanuel Hospital (Lady Dacre Pensions); 1594; Formerly James St., Buckingham Gate, S.W.; The almshouses and the site have been sold, and the proceeds devoted to out-door pensions. Pensioners must be members of the Church of England and have been householders or resident for two years immediately preceding election in Westminster, Chelsea, or Hayes, Middlesex, at least 56 years of age and not in receipt of more than £15 a year. Pension £20 to £25 per year.

Emigrant Boys and Girls, The Annie Macpherson Home of Industry (Incorporated); 1866; 4, Tower Street, London Fields, Hackney, and in Canada.; To receive, train and assist boys and girls to emigrate to Canada, where they are provided with employment. In addition to home and medical missionary work.

Emigration and Distributing Homes, Canada; 1883; Head Offices, 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, London, E.; To emigrate suitable orphan and destitute boys and girls after careful training, to place them in situations or to board them out in Canada, and to supervise their future career.

Emigration - Self-Help Emigration Society; 1894; 39, Memorial Hall Bldgs., Farringdon St., E.C.; To assist, by means of grants or information, in emigrating to Canada and other Colonies those suited to become Colonists.

Epileptics, The National Society for (Formerly called the National Society for Employment of Epileptics); 1892; The Chalfont Colony, Bucks. London Office, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Rd., Westminster, S.W.; To establish and maintain Homes on the Colony system for persons suffering from epilepsy; and generally to promote the welfare of those afflicted with this malady. The Colony consists of several homes for men, women and children respectively, and includes a Convalescent Home for men only.* (*Under a scheme by which donors may build Homes at the Chalfont Colony for the benefit of patients belonging to particular localities. Money has been provided for the special benefit of cases belonging to Hampshire, to Wales, and to Somersetshire.)

Epilepsy - Hospital for Epilepsy, Paralysis, and other Diseases of the Nervous System.; 1866, Incorporated; Maida Vale, London, W.; The relief of the poor afflicted with epilepsy, paralysis, or other diseases of the nervous system, 85 beds, 25 private wards.

Epsom College (A Public School with a Royal Medical Foundation); 1855; Epsom, Surrey. Office, 37, Soho Square, W.; Receives over 280 boys; 50 boys, necessitous sons of Medical men on the foundation, educated, boarded and clothed free of charge. It also gives pensions of £30 each to 50 necessitous medical men or their widows and has pensioners from special funds.

Evangelical Continental Society; 1845; 22, Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, E.C.; To assist native Evangelical Missions on the Continent - in France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Austria and Russia.

Evangelical Union of South Africa (The); 1911; 8 & 9 Essex St., Strand, London, W.C.; 1. To unite consolidate and support Missionary effort in South America which is in harmony with the character of the Union. 2. To promote intelligent Christian interest in such effort and in the spiritual needs of the South American Continent.

Evangelization Society; 1868; 21, Surrey St., Strand, W.C.; To preach the Gospel in England, Scotland, and Wales to those not reached by ordinary means.

Factory Girls' Country Holiday Fund.; 1888; 75, Lands Conduct St. [-Lambs Conduit St? ed.-] , W.C.; To give a holiday of a week or fortnight in the country to girls and women who would not otherwise have change.

Farringdon General Dispensary and Lying-in Charity; 1828; 17, Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn Circus; To give medical and surgical assistance to the poor, both at their own homes and at the Dispensary.

Fegan's (Mr.) Homes (Incorporated); 1870; 62 & 64 Horseferry Road, Westminster, S.W., and 87, 89, 91 Tufton Street, Westminster, S.W., also at Stony Stratford, Bucks, Ramsgate, Goudhurst (Kent), and Toronto, Canada; For training friendless, destitute, and orphan boys to earn their own living; also for emigration of suitable boys to Canada, etc.

Feltmakers' Company Charities:-; 1604; Has no Hall. Business transacted at Guildhall;

Female Mission to the Fallen Women of London, otherwise known as Women's Mission to Women. The Female Aid Society was amalgamated with this society in 1882.; 1858; Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W.; A woman's mission to women, designed to employ Christian female missionaries, who go into the streets at night, distribute tracts, and seek to lead the fallen to a better life; visit the hospitals and workhouses, and other places where these young women are found, and there speak to them of the Saviour; endeavour to find situations, or to place in homes, or restore to their friends those who, on inquiry, appear desirous to forsake their life of sin.

Female Orphan Asylum, Royal; 1758, Incor. 1800; Beddington, Surrey. Office, 17, Buckingham St., Strand, W.C.; To maintain, educate and train for domestic service girls who have lost their father or both parents. Eligible from 7 to 10 years of age.

Female Orphan Home, now known as The Girls' Orphan Home; 1855; Hanworth Road, Hampton, Middlesex;

Female Orphans Who Have Lost Both Parents, Home for; 1786; Grove Road, St. John's Wood, N.W.; To support, educate, and fit for domestic service, female orphans. Between 6 and 16 years of age.

Female Welfare, Society for Promoting; 1866; 2, Manchester St., Manchester Square, W.; To be a centre of union for Institutions conducted upon Scriptural and Protestant principles; Annual United Sale of Work, etc.; depot for sale of the work of the Institutions. Orders received. General Registry kept.

Fever - London Fever Hospital* (*Completed in its hundredth year in 1902. During the century, over 100,00 patients were treated, mostly scarlet fever and diphtheria.); 1802; Liverpool Road, Islington, N.; The prevention and cure of contagious fevers.

Fever* (*There are Fever Hospitals at Stockwell, Homerton, Deptford, Fulham, etc. maintained by the Poor Law Authorities for pauper patients)

Field Lane Institution (otherwise known as Field Lane Ragged Schools and Refuges), Certified Industrial School, Creche, Youths Institute, Christian Mission, etc., etc.; 1841; Central Building, Refuges, Creche, &c., Vine Street, Clerkenwell Rd., E.C.; Boys Industrial School, Hillfield Road, West Hampstead, N.W.; To provide shelter and food for the homeless and to help them to employment. To carry on the varied work of a Christian Mission amongst the poorest children and adults. To provide a dinner at the Institution on Christmas Day for destitute men and women (826 in 1915), and to send Christmas Parcels into the Homes of the needy (579 in 1915). To provide for 50 infants of working women in Creche and Day Nursery, etc.

Finsbury Dispensary; 1780; Brewer Street, Goswell Road, E.C.; To afford medical advice and medicine to the poor, also, in cases of emergency, at their own homes.

Fishmongers' and Poulterers' Institution and Asylum.; 1835; Leadenhall Market. Asylum at Wood Green, N.; To maintain 12 married couples in the asylum at Wood Green; to relieve by pensions of £20 a year 28 poor and aged members; and by occasional grants to other distressed members.

Florence Nightingale Hospital for Gentlewomen; 1850; 19, Lisson Grove; Home in illness, with medical and surgical treatment, for gentlewomen of small means, the wives and daughters of professional men, governesses, artists etc.

Flower - Bible Flower Mission; 1849; Chelsea, S.W.; To give £30 annually to two deserving persons at Chelsea, and £14 each to the best boy and best girl in charity-school.

Foreign Aid Society; 1840; 33, Lee Park, Blackheath; For the diffusion of the Gospel on the Continent, by making Grants to Evangelical Societies there.

Foreigners in Distress, Society of Friends of; 1806; 68, Finsbury Pavement; To give temporary relief to deserving indigent, and pensions to poor and aged foreigners; and to assist others to return to their native countries.

Foundling Hospital; 1739; Guilford Street, Russell Square, W.C.; The support of illegitimate children and the restoration of their mothers to society.

Founding Hospital Benevolent Fund; 1845; Guilford Street, W.C.; For the relief of aged and distressed foundlings, by pensions, temporary relief, and small loans.

Fox and Knot and Hatfield Street Schools and Mission; 1840; 42, Charterhouse Street, E.C.; To instruct the young, and improve the social, moral, and physical condition of the adult population of the district of West Smithfield.

Framework Knitters' Company's Almshouses; 1727; Kingsland Road, E.; Homes, etc, for 12 poor freemen or widows of freemen of the Company.

Francis Joseph Institute, London. Member of the Central Council of the United Alien Relief Societies working in consultation with the Home Office; 1898; 30, Fitzroy Sq.; To assist poor Austrians and Hungarians, permanently settled or temporarily residing in London, to send them home when necessary, and to find employment for applicants.

Free and Open Church Association, The Incorporated; 1866; Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W.; Seats free to all. Churches always open. Free-will offerings.

French Hospital and Dispensary; 1867; 172-176, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. Convalescent Home at Kemp Town, Brighton.; The medical relief of sick poor speaking the French language, without distinction as to religion or nationality. Without letters of recommendation. Has 61 beds in Convalescent Home at Brighton.

French : Mission to French-Speaking Foreigners in the Metropolis and Great Britain, in connection with the French Evangelical Reformed Church in Bayswater.; 1862; Central Office, 16, Kildare Gardens, W. Home for Governesses and Employment Bureau, 16, Stephen's Road, W. Schools, Bedford Passage, Fitzroy Sq.; To minister to the spiritual wants of French-speaking foreigners in this country, and to befriend them.

French Protestant Hospital (Commonly called The French Hospital); Incor. 1718; Victoria Park, N.E.; A home for 52 poor and aged French Protestants or descendants of French Protestants, over 60 years of age and single. Married couples not eligible. There are also some pensions.

Friends of Armenia, The; 1897; 47, Victoria St., Westminster, S.W.; To maintain Armenian children orphaned by the massacres - to teach the widows industries and sell their work.

Friendly Female Society; 1802; Committee-rooms at 9, Charterhouse Square. Almshouses at Camberwell and Brixton.; To relieve poor infirm widows and single women of good character, above 60 years of age, who have seen better days, have less than eight shillings a week, and who reside within seven miles of St. Paul's.

Friends' Foreign Mission Association; 1866; 15 Devonshire St., Bishopsgate, E.C.; To promote Christian missions in India, Madagascar, Syria, China, and Ceylon.

Friends of the Poor, (The); --; 40 & 42, Ebury St., London, S.W.; To bridge the gulf between the rich and the deserving poor. To assist disabled and discharged soldiers and sailors. To help necessitous families in time of sickness or distress and to place lads and girls into permanent situation.

Fry, Elizabeth, Home.; 1849; Miss E. Fordham, 18, Highbury Terrace, N. Women are received on release from prison or sent by Metropolitan Magistrates for 6 months or longer to help them to redeem their character.

Fuller's Hospital, or Almshouses.; 1592; Wood Green, Tottenham.; Homes for 12 poor women of Shoreditch parish, with 7s. each per week, and 9s. 7d. each per annum extra.

Fund for the Preservation of St. Paul's Cathedral; 1914; Chapter House, 68, St. Paul's Churchyard; Preservation of the Cathedral.

Gardeners', Royal, Benevolent Institution; 1838; 92, Victoria St., Westminster, S.W.; To relieve aged and indigent gardeners, market gardeners, market growers, nurserymen, seedsmen, and others engaged in horticultural pursuits, and their widows, by Annuities and temporary assistance in urgent cases of distress and misfortune.

General Lying-in Hospital; 1765 Incor. 1830; York Road, Lambeth, S.E.; To receive poor pregnant married women, also single women for a first confinement (if of previous good character), and to attend poor married women at their homes gratis. Has 36 beds.

German Hospital; 1845; Dalston Lane, and Ritson Rd., Dalston, N.E.; Medical and Surgical aid to the sick poor, natives of Germany, and others speaking German, and to all cases of accident. Out-patients not speaking German must obtain the recommendation of a governor. Has 184 Beds in the Hospital, and 40 in Convalescent Home.

Ditto Convalescent Home for In- and Out-Patients from the Hospital; 1908; Hitchen, Herts.; In occupation of War Office since March, 1915.

Girls' Friendly Society; 1875; Central Office, 39, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W.; To band together in one Society women and girls as Associates and Members, for mutual help, religious and secular, encourage purity of life, temperance and thrift.

Girls' Guild of Good Life; 1885; Hoxton Hall, 130, Hoxton St., N.; To promote temperance and religion amongst factory girls.

Girls' Orphan Home (The); 1855; Hanworth Road, Hampton, Middlesex. Office, 3 & 4, Great Winchester St., E.C.; To maintain and educate orphan girls, from 3 to 16 years of age, and fit them for domestic service or other useful calling.

Girls' Protective Home (In connection with the Children's Aid Society, and Ladies Association for the Care of Friendless Girls in Hastings and St. Leonards); 1884; Mount Hermon, 38, Ashburnham Road, Hastings; To train girls of good character for domestic service.

Girls' Village Home. (Dr. Barnardo's Homes: National Incorporated Association); 1872; Barkingside, Essex. Head Offices, 18-26 Stepney Causeway, London. E.; For the upbringing (in 68 independent cottages and 15 other buildings) of 1400 orphans and destitute girls.

Gladstone (The Catherine) Free Convalescent Home* (*The Home was transferred to Mitcham from Woodford in 1900); 1866; Mitcham, Surrey. Office, 147, Leadenhall Street, E.C.; To receive convalescents (from other than contagious diseases) from among London poor, without payment of any kind; preference being given to those coming from the East of London. Special men's ward for surgical convalescent cases at small weekly charge.

Golden Lane (Abbreviated Title) Hoxton Coster's Mission; 1861; Costers' Hall, 234-243, Hoxton Street, N.; To evangelize and help costermongers, street-traders, and slum-dwellers; free meals for poorest children; Sunday-schools, classes, thrift societies, and donkey shows. Visitation and surgical aid to 210 cripple children.

Goldsmiths and Jewellers' Annuity Institution; 1827; Horological Institute, Northampton Square, E.C.; To relieve by pensions incapacitated members of the trade and their widows.

Goldsmiths' Benevolent Institution; 1833; 21, Broad St., Golden Sq., W.; To relieve by pensions aged and infirm members of the trade and their widows.

Goldsmiths' Company's Charities:-* (*The income of the property in this Company as Trustees of Charities, amounts to about £16,000. In addition to this, the Company's annual expenditure out of their general corporate fund on education associations of charity, hospitals, the blind etc. is about £25,000 making their total charity expenditure about £41,000. The Company recently prepared a comprehensive Scheme, which has been sanctioned by the Charity Commissioners, for the consolidation and administration of their Charities, founded either wholly or partially for the poor of their Company. The Scheme gives to the Company more extended powers than they formerly possessed, and enables them to deal with the Consolidated Charities in a more complete manner than was formerly possible. Applications in all cases to be made to the Clerk of the Company, Goldsmiths' Hall, London, E.C.); --;Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, E.C.; The following are some of the Company's charity foundations:-

Good Templar and Temperance Orphanage; 1874; Marion Park, Sunbury; To rear and educate orphan boys and girls, from 2 to 16 years old, children of total abstainers.* (*No balloting or votes required, necessity being greatest recommendation).

Gordon Boys' Home; 1885; West End, Woking, Surrey. Offices, 5, York Street, St. James', S.W.; To receive poor homeless boys above the age of 13½ and train them till the age of 17 for military or naval service, or for industrial work. The Home at present has accommodation for 250 boys.

Gordon Hospital, The, for Rectal Diseases.; 1884; Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W.; To afford medical and surgical aid to patients of box sexes and of limited means suffering from fistula, piles, or other diseases of the rectum. Where means are unequal to the cost of private treatment.

Governesses' Benevolent Institution; 1843; Head Office, Dacre House, 5, Arundel St., Strand, W.C. Home, 47, Harley Street, W. Furneaux Holiday Home, Fairmount, Shanklin, I.W. Home for the Aged, Chiselhurst. Temporary assistance to governesses in distress - elective annuities - a home for the unemployed - a holiday home - a free registration - a provident fund - and a home for the aged.

Great Northern Central Hospital, The; 1856; Holloway Road, N.; The gratuitous relief of the sick poor, both as In- and Out-Patients.

Greenwich Mission Home and Deptford Fund Refuge; 1857; Shaftesbury House, Circus St., Greenwich; To save elder girls and young women from perilous circumstances, and rescue the fallen.

Greenwich, Royal Hospital* (*The building formerly used for the In-Pensioners is now the Royal Naval College. One portion is occupied by the Seamen's Hospital Society); 1694; Office at the Admiralty, Whitehall; To support aged and maimed seamen of the Royal Navy and Marines, and the widows of such killed for drowned in the service of the Crown; also to educate and support the sons and daughters of seamen, marines and commissioned Officers in the Royal Navy.

Grocers' and Tea-Dealers' Benevolent Protection Society; 1837; 10, Old Jewry Chambers, Bank, E.C.; To grant pensions to aged members and their widows, of from £16 to £36 per annum.

Grocers' Company's Charities:-; 1883* (*This date refers to the foundation of the charity - the Grocers' Company was founded in 1345); Grocers' Hall, Princes Street, E.C.; Two scholarships of £300 per annum each, for original research in Sanitary Science.

Grotto Home for Working Lads; 1846; 55, Paddington St., Marylebone, W.; To assist, lodge and find employment for poor boys above school age, especially such as have left Industrial Schools and similar Institutions for younger boys.

Guards' Industrial Home for Girls; 1863; 47, Francis St., Victoria Street, S.W.; To maintain, educate, and train (up to 17 years of age) for domestic service the daughters of non-commissioned Officers and men of the Guards.

Guy's Hospital; 1724; St. Thomas's St., Southwark, S.E.; To receive and treat the sick and injured poor. 643 beds and cots. There is a private ward for paying patients.

Hackney Carriage Proprietors Provident Institution; 1873; 141, Judd Street, W.C.; To provide annuities for aged or distressed members, of not less than 3 years' standing - to grant pensions to widows, and to assist the children of deceased members.

Hackney College; 1803; West Hampstead; To prepare students for the Christian ministry, and to administer various Church and educational trusts.

Hambro Orphanage for Girls; 1879; Roehampton, S.W.; To provide a home training for domestic service and education for orphan and fatherless girls. Payment 13 guineas a year.

Hampstead General and North-West London Hospital; 1878 Amalgamated 1907; (In-patients dept.) Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, N.W. (Out-patients dept.) Bayham Street, Camden Town, N.W.; To receive and treat the sick and injured poor of Hampstead, Kentish Town, Gospel Oak, Highgate, Kilburn, and all the outlying North-Western Districts. Motor ambulance maintained : available for street accidents, urgent cases, etc.

Ham Yard Soup Kitchen and Hospice; 1846; Ham Yard, 16, Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, W.; To give food and shelter to the destitute, and to prevent mendicancy.

Haverstock Hill and Malden Road Provident Dispensary; 1865; 132, Malden Road, N.W.; To provide medical attendance and medicine for the sick poor, by their own monthly payments.

Heart.- National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart; 1857; Westmorland St., Marylebone, W.; To afford relief to the poor suffering from diseases of the heart.

"Hearth and Home" Guild of Aid for Gentlepeople; 1904; 33, Henrietta St., E.C.; Provides small monthly allowances, special grants, clothing and other benefits for necessitous persons of gentle birth.

Hedger's Almshouses; --; Carlisle Street, Lambeth, S.E.; To afford a home to 9 aged women. Preference given to widows and daughters of old tenants of the late James Hedger.

Herefordshire Society; 1710; Temple, E.C.; To clothe and apprentice poor boys, the sons of Herefordshire parents or natives of that county.

Her Majesty's Hospital (Dr. Barnardo's Homes); 1877; 13 to 19 Stepney Causeway, E.; The treatment of orphans and destitute boys and girls in Dr. Barnardo's Homes. 9 Wards, 84 Beds.

Highgate School (Founded by Sir Roger Cholmeley.);1565; Highgate,N.; Educates 480 boys. Has 20 foundation scholarships of £24 per ann. giving free education; 8 senior foundation scholarships of £12 per annum; 3 exhibitions of £60, and 3 of £40, tenable for 3 years at University; and scholarships of £25 to £60 per annum are given from time to time, limited to boarders at the School.

Holloway and North Islington Provident Dispensary; 1840, converted 1905; Palmer Place, Holloway Rd.; and 172, Balls Pond Rd., N.; To provide medical attendance and medicine to persons not earning more than a certain specified income and not in receipt of parish relief.

Home for Aged Jews, formerly known at The Hand-in-Hand and Widows' Home Institution and Jewish Home; 1840; 105, Nightingale Lane, Balham, S.W.; To maintain and provide an asylum for decayed and aged Jewish poor who are over 60 years of age, and have resided in England at least 7 years.

Homes for Fallen and Destitute Women, and those handed over by Judges, Magistrates, etc.; 1889; Home: Drury Lane, W.C. Offices: 15, Gray's Inn Rd., Holborn.; To reclaim lost women, to provide employment for them and others that come under its influence. (A branch of St. Giles' Christian Mission)

Home and Hospital for Sick Children, with Out-Patients Department for Women and Children; 1872; Sydenham Road, Lower Sydenham, S.E.; To receive boys from up to 12 years, and girls from up to 14, requiring medical or surgical aid.

Home for Confirmed Invalids; 1842; 36, Aubert Park, and 1,2 and 3, Highbury Terrace, N.; The reception of chronic invalid women of limited means, paying not less than 21s. a week. The home has accommodation for thirty inmates at Aubert Park, and forty at Highbury Terrace.

Home for Invalid Children (Founded by late Elizabeth Ann Freeman); 1855; 70, Montpelier Road. Removed to 59, York Road, Brighton; To restore health after illness and to avert disease by medical care, good food, and sea air.

Home for Working and Destitute Lads (Dr. Barnardo's Homes); 1870; 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, E.; To rescue and train homeless and destitute lads.

Homes : Mittendorff House (The Epsom Branch of Dr. Barnardo's Homes); 1896; Office, as above. Mittendorff House, High Road, Epsom, Surrey; To maintain and educate orphan and destitute boys, 5 to 15 years of age.

Homes for the Aged Poor; 1869; At Notting Hill, St. Peter's Park, Paddington, and West Kensington, South Norwood, and Clapham Junction; To provide a rent-free apartment for deserving poor persons above sixty years of age, whose income from every source is less than 8s. a week, or married couples 14s. a week; and to secure for them medical aid in sickness.