"Data from Herbert Fry's Royal Guide to London Charities, 1917" "NOTE : EVERY EFFORTS HAS BEEN MADE TO INCLUDE CORRECT FIGURES IN THIS DIGITISATION, BUT IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO CHECK AGAINST AN ORIGINAL COPY OF THE BOOK" Name of Institution When Founded Year's Receipts Last Reported (in pounds) No. of Persons Benefited Last Year [-2-] Actors' Benevolent Fund 1882 " 8, Adam Street, Strand, W.C." " to assist distressed members of the theatrical profession, their wives and children." £4314; expenditure £4593 1671 grants Aged and Destitute Governesses' Fund 1887 " 58, Somerleyton Rd., Brixton, S.W. (address of Sec.)" Providing yearly grants of £20 to Destitute Governesses "£1,302" 57 annuitants and gifts to others Aged Pilgrims' Homes " 1835 Camberwell, 1871 Hornsey Rise, 1879 Stamford Hill, 1884 Brighton" -- For the residence of pensioners of the Aged Pilgrims' Friend Society £2239 and expenditure £1635 175 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." £9859 and expenditure £9905 1333 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." "£22,423 expenditure £27,077" 1350 "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." "About £31,903 from endowment. Expended £27,964" "16 in almshouses, 5 with £1 each weekly and 11 with 18s 6d. 4 out-pensioners received £1 6s each weekly. 4 do. £1 4s., and 16 had 10s weekly" All Hallows Girls' Home See Working Girls' Homes 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." Chiefly private "86 boys in House, 20 were admitted in 1914" 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." £7236 expenditure £7490 2595 In-patients (Adults 2002; Children 593) [-4-] "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. Not stated 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." About £800 19 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." £918 99 "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." About £400 33 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." "£2241, Expenditure £2243" "Anti-Vivisection Society, The London and Provincial" 1876 " 22A Regent Street, London, S.W." The legal prohibition of vivisection. "£3,204" "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. "£4,179" "In-patients, 487, Attendances, 34,784, Accidents 2109" "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. £255 (two years' receipts) 50 [-6-] 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. "£3392, expenditure £3032 " 140 Archbishops' Western Canada Fund 1910 " Ch. House, Westminster, S.W." To assist Church Work in new districts in Western Canada. "£12,117" Architects' Benevolent Society 1845 " 9 Conduit St., Hanover Sq., W." " To relieve poor persons belonging to the Architect's profession, their widows and orphans." "£1,232" 81 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. 13 inmates 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." £461 and expenditure £522 1581 places were obtained 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." £918 48 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. "£5,800" "About 53 readers employed, 10 pensioners" 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." Arnold Fund - See Clergy 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. "£1189, expenditure £1375" "25 widows, 2 orphans" 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." "£11,743, expenditure £9290" 337 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." "£2684, expenditure £1816" 74 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." [-8-] 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." £242 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. £50 Has about 350 members 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." About £825 19 pensioners and grants to 16 others 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." About £300 12 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. "£6527,expenditure £5648" 96 (53 boys and 43 girls) Baptist Building Fund. 1823 " Baptist Mission House, 19, Furnival St., E.C." " To assist Baptist congregations to build chapels, by loans without interest." "£13,810 (Including repayments of loans)" 35 congregations Baptist College 1810 " North Gate, Regent's Park." To educate students training for Baptist ministry. "£4048, expenditure £3899" 26 students Baptist Missionary Society. Incorporated with the Women's Association 1792 " 19, Furnival St., Holborn, E.C." To diffuse Christianity throughout the world. "£137,992 (including special fund, expenditure £146,564" 537 European missionaries. 1468 native preachers etc. Baptist Pastors' College 1861 " Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, S.E." To prepare students for Christian ministry - also Home Missions and Evangelistic Work. "£2,300" 42 resident students Baptist and Evangelistic Tract Section Baptist Union Publication Department. 1841 " 4, Southampton Row, London, W.C." The distribution of denominational and general religious tracts. £188 Unknown [-10-] Baptist Union Home Mission 1797 " Baptist Church House, Southampton Row, W.C." " To promote Baptist missions in England and Wales, and foster Evangelistic work." "£2,573" Has about 215 stations in England 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. Included in returns of The Shaftesbury Society Included in the Society's Returns 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." "Total Income from all sources and for every purpose £243,367" "7480 average number of children in residence. 13,479 destitute and orphan children dealt with in 1915, including a large number who are the children of soldiers and sailors. 6228 fresh applications during 1915. Total admissions to end of 1915, 82,126" 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." "£4684, expenditure £4391" "Relieved 102, £3092 (4106 persons benefited)" "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." £185 43 [-12-] Battersea Training College. 1840 " St. John's Training College, Battersea." To train masters for School - recognised by the Board of Education. "From National Society, £570 " 137 Bayswater Orphanage. 1833 " 26, Kensington Park Road, W." To receive orphan and fatherless children and train them for service. £340 12 little girls "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." "£1534, expenditure £1103" 33 at Asylum "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." "£4003, expenditure £4472" "32115 Out-patients, 745 In-patients" 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. £484 "20,000 tickets distributed" "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." "£214, expenditure £458" 1142 families 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." "£1,492" 48 by pension and 31 by gifts 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." "£30,000" 353 "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." "School branch £7200, Almshouse branch £1180" 8 men or women in Almshouses and 79 Out-pensioners; about 390 pupils in school [-14-] Bethnal Green Free Library 1876 " London Street, E." For the free use of the Public. £650 "About 100,000" 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." £416 "26 males, 44 females" 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. £344 "312,949" 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." "£10,078" made grants to over 50 Mission objects "Bible Society, Naval and Military" 1780 " 15, Strand, London, W.C." To supply the sailors and soldiers with Scripture. £838 "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." "£2,780" 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." £92 88 Bishop of London's Fund. 1863 " 46A, Pall Mall" For making further provision for the urgent spiritual needs of the diocese of London. "£24,624" 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." £500 14 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. Connected [-16-] "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." "£1,517" 36 Blind - Gardner's Trust for the. 1880 " 53, Victoria St., Westminster, S.W." For the benefit of blind persons in England and Wales. "The interest of about £300,000" "225 pensions, 100 by scholarships, 140 by grants, and 39 grants to Institutions" 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." "£7,990" 799 Pensioners "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." "£1901, expenditure £1582" 2178 in Londno and outlying districts benefitted "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." £60 5 "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." Subs. and Dons. £7430 110 employed in the Workshops and at their homes; also 23 pensioners Blind - Indigent Blind Visiting Society 1834 " 8, Red Lion Square, W.C." To visit and relieve the blind poor at their own homes. "General, £2599; Samaritan £1177, expenditure £4551" 909 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." "£2107, expenditure £2510" 91 [-18-] "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." Trading £2000; Charitable £4000 "80, 60 permanent work" "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.""" "£5,571" 89 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." About £3720 250 Pensioners 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." £5155 Not stated since 1913 Nearly 800 pensioners 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." "London Homes £3357, expenditure £3277; Southend £605, expenditure £642" 126 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." "£11,269 including legacies" 1302 [-20-] "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." "From Dons. Subs. And Payments for pupils &c. £8964, expenditure £10,211" Pupils under instruction about 111 "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." "£13,800 expenditure £14,068" 189 pupils and 45 outworkers "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. "£3146, expenditure £2574" 320 "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." £720 175 "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. "£1455, expenditure £1500" 258 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." "Ordinary £32,522, expenditure £32,776" Many thousands of the Blind in all parts of the world "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." Trading £1831; Charitable £507 "In 1913, 39" [-22-] 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." 30 Bloomsbury Dispensary 1801 " 12, Bloomsbury Street, W.C." To provide the respectable poor with gratuitous medical and surgical aid. "£1,770" 3578 "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." £3589 from Subs & Dons. And £1049 from Patients 821 In-Patients and 5698 Out-Patients 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." "£1,936" 57 Booksellers' Provident Institution. 1837 " Stationers' Hall Court, E.C." " The assistance of members, their widows and children." "£2013, expenditure £1472" 66 Booksellers' Provident Restreat 1843 " Abbots Langley, Herts. Office, Stationers' Hall Court, E.C." Provision of cottages for aged members of the Booksellers' Provident Institution. "£579, expenditure £519" 7 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. "£2005, expenditure £1718" 51 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." Included in the accounts of Dr. Barnardo's Homes 381 "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. Ditto 597 in residence at end of 1915 [-24-] Boys' Home (The) 1858 " Regent's Park, N.W." " To lodge, clothe, and educate destitute boys who have not been convicted of crime." £1570 from Subs and Dons 140 Boys in the Home 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." £1104; Legacy £200; expended £1268 38 in the orphanage 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." "£1325 From all source, including boys' payments" "About 80, of who 30 reside in Home" Brentry Certified Inebriate Reformatory. 1899 " Westbury-on-Trym, near Bristol." The reformation of inebriate men and women. "£8432, expended £9176" 306 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. About £100 12 Brewers' Company:- 1614 " Hall, Addle St., E.C." "£5,800" 6 John Baker's Pensions 1818 -- 8s. and 10s. per week Christ Church parish. "£1,170" 21 Bellowes' Charity 1614 " Brewers' Hall, Addle St., E.C." To give small sums to poor members of Company. "Hickson, Starling, and Heath's." 1686 " Aldgate, Allhallows, Barking" Scholarships. Foundations. £150 6 Hunt's Charity 1620 " Brewers' Hall, Addle St., E.C." £10 to Vicar of Cripplegate. 1 Jemmitt's Charity. 1679 Ditto " To give £6 annually to four poor freemen of Company, or their widows." Newman's Charity 1590 Ditto To give 20s. annually among poor members of Company. "Owen's Schools and Almspeople* [-* By the new scheme the Almshouses were vacated, and 21 widows are now maintained at their own homes, the sum of £450 a year being set aside for this purpose.-]" " 1613, Recon.1878" " Schools, Owen Street, St. John Street Road, Islington" " A Grammar School for upwards of 400 boys - there is also a girls' school. of 300 pupils, at Owen's Row - and Pensions to 14, to be increased to 20, poor widows of Islington and St. James's, Clerkenwell." "Owen Trust £18,900; Boys' School, £20,000;Girls School £16,800; Almspeople, £450" 400 boys and 234 girls in Schools; and Pensions to 21 widows [-26-] Platt's Charity 1597 " Schools & Almshouses, Aldenham, Herts." " To provide a school at Aldenham, and homes and small pensions for poor." "£9200 Almsfolk, £490" "210 boys in School, 6 persons in Almshouses" Potter's Charity. 1596 " Brewers' Hall, 18, Addle St., E.C." To give £6 yearly among six poor old members of the Company. Rochdale's Charity 1620 Ditto. To give £3 annually among six poor old members of the Company. Susan Clarke's Charity -- Ditto To give £3 annually among six poor old members of the Company. Whitbread's Charities 1794 Ditto. " Donations annually to decayed master-brewers of London - annuities to widows - and benefactions of £5 and upwards, to poor members of the Company." "G. Barford, £490; Whitecross St. £880" 11; 20 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." "£3324, expenditure £3677" "275 in the Homes, night's lodging provided 1046" 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." "£269,036 General Fund expenditure £255,098" "11,059,617 Bibles etc. distributed" 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." "£43,383, expenditure £41,487" "575,986" 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." "£32,496, expenditure £32,584" "473 students in residence, and a large number of children" [-28-] 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. "£5,571" 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. "£908, expenditure £598" 28 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." "£13,208 and Legacies £9928, expenditure £18,682" 82 In-patients and 389 Out-patients 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. "£5677, including Legacies" "176, 96 boys and 80 girls" 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." "£5198, apart from legacies. Expenditure £5256" 20 missionaries British Syrian Mission 1860 " Grosvenor House, The Ridgway, Wimbledon" The religious and industrial training of Syrian women and children. "£5,657" 4688 in schools and many thousands through the dispensaries and visits 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." "£2326, expenditure £2506" 250 in the Home 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." £1040 (Permanent Income) 4680 animals and birds [-30-] Brompton Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest. 1841 " Brompton, S.W." The treatment of consumption and all other diseases of the chest. "£36,810 (no return made in 1916) including Legacies." "1990 In-patients and 10,216 Out-patients" Sanatorium and Convalescent Homes -- " On the Chobham Ridges, near Frimley, Surrey" " Annual Subscribers of £5 5s. and Donors of £52 10s. become Governors of the Hospital, and may recommend 1 in-patient and 8 out-patients in each year. Donors of £525 may name a Ward and become Governors of the Hospital. Donors of £105 may name a Bed and also become Governors of the Hospital." "£6401 Annual expenditure, £30,000 only fixed income £3000" Bruce Hall Mission 1893 " Bruce Hall, Chatham Place, Hackney, N.E." " The moral, physical, and spiritual well-being of children and young people." "£140, expenditure £145" Builders' Benevolent Institution. 1847 " Koh-i-Noor House, Kingsway, W.C." " To give pensions to aged needy members of trade, and to their widows." £1788 (1915-16) 61 pensioners (1915-16) 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." "£1271, including legacy of £550, expenditure £961" 25 pensioners beside occasionally temporary relief Builders' Foremen and Clerks of Works' Provident Institution 1842 " 9, Conduit Street, Regent Street, W." To assist necessitous members and their families. "£1,360" 36 pensioners 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." "£5706, including legacy, expenditure £5038" "126 pensioners (35 married men, 68 widows and 27 single men)" 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." £4768 and Legacies £180; expenditure £5510 "517, including 97 annuitants who received £20 a year each" 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." £1458 (for 1915); expenditure £1457 "Has 43 shelters, used daily by upwards of 4000 cabmen" Camberwell Provident Dispensary 1862 Camberwell Park To give medical aid to the poor. "£1,902" "90,859" [-32-] 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." "£2938, and expenditure £3479" 81 "Campden Charities, The" 1629 " 62, Church Street, Kensington" For the benefit of the poor of Kensington only. "£4,978" Over 500 The Kensington Scholarships 1902 As above " Scholarships tenable at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London." £307 7 Campden Technical Institute (The) 1895 " Lancaster Road, Notting Hill, W." " Maintenance of Technical Classes for young men and women, boys and girls." 1605 Students 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." "Ordinary expenditure £17,380, extraordinary £2370" 2202 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." £123 7 Carpenters' Company - Read's Charity -- " London Wall, E.C." " An exhibition of £4, increased by the company to £34, to a Cambridge scholar." The three scholarships now held by Students at the Universities 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." About £7000 "604 children (242 boys, 195 girls, 167 infants) 890 technical students" [-34-] Catholic (Roman) Charities:- Aged Poor Society 1708 " 82, Victoria St., Westminster, S.W." " and St. Joseph's Almshouses, Brook Green, W. - Grants pensions of 3s. to women and 4s. to men, per week, £26 each per annum to 34 persons of a superior class, and £20 to each of 12 inmates of Almshouses, and 10 guineas each to the other inmates." "£2774, expenditure £2277" "34 persons received annuities, and 130 others small weekly sums" Associated Catholic Charities -- " Secretary's Address, 21 Oxford Terrace, Hyde Park, W." " To help the schools for the children of poor Catholics in Bunhill Row, Gate St., Lincoln's Inn Fields, Marylebone, Shoreditch, Dufour's Place, Golden Sq., and Moorfields." £308 About 2300 school children Asylum of the Good Shepherd. 1841 " Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, W." A refuge for penitent fallen woman. Not stated 272 Convent and Orphanage of the Faithful Virgin 1848 " Norwood, S.E." Orphans or destitute girls from 2 to 16. The Orphanage is certified by Poor Law Board for reception of Catholic girls from workhouses. Private funds "Creche, The, or Day Nursery, of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre" 1868 " 9,11, and 13, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, W." " To take charge of infants whilst their mothers are at work. Has an Orphanage of 160 poor children, and other useful Charities." "£2,700" Home of the Good Shepherd 1866 " East Finchley, N." " Home for penitent women - also a separate preventive home, to prepare girls for service." Not stated In the Home about 350 "Hospitals, Etc. Society for Visiting The" 1867 " 36 Church Street, Kensington, W." " To visit hospitals and patients, who have left, in their own homes. A convalescent home at Hanwell is attached to the Society." "About £118, expenditure £101" 6072 Little Sisters of the Poor 1840 " 8, Meadow Road, South Lambeth, S.W. Manor Rd., Stoke Newington and Portobello Road, W. " To receive and support the aged poor of both sexes. Not stated Average inmates (in the Homes) about 130 [-36-] "Orphanage of the Sisters of Providence, and of the Immaculate Conception" 1866 " Bartrams, Hampstead Green, Hampstead" The training and education of Roman Catholic orphans and other destitute children for domestic service. Not stated Not stated St. Aloysius's School 1833 " Clarendon Sq., Somers Town, N.W." " To provide board, lodging and education for girls, a moderate annual premium. Some orphans are free. Also education in day schools." "70 in Boarding School, and 500 in Day Schools" "St. Anselm, Society of" " 1860, revived 1884" " Depository, 69, Great Queen St., W.C." " To make selections of the best books of all kinds, and classify them in lists for different kinds of reader." Lists sent to all Catholic College Schools St. John's Reformatory 1906 " Shern Hall Street, Walthamstow" The reception and training of criminal Catholic boys. "£4,435" 102 St. Helen's Orphanage -- Brentwood To receive and train poor Catholic boys at an early age. "St. John and St. Elizabeth, Hospital of" 1856 " 40, Grove End Road, St. John's Wood" " For medical and surgical cases - men, women and children." "£12,280, expenditure £12,089 " 1314 Inpatients. Out-patients are not treated St. John's (Reformatory) School. 1906 Walthamstow The education of Roman Catholic reformatory boys. "£3,455" 102 St. Joseph's Almshouses 1824 " Brook Green, Hammersmith, W." " To provide homes for Catholic aged poor, and give pensions of £30 to as many of the inmates as the funds will permit, and gratuities to others." "£730, expenditure £769" "30 inmates 12 of whom each receive pensions of £20 a year, £10 10s. is given to 14 of the others" [-38-] St. Joseph's Catholic Almshouses 1850 " Cadogan Street, Chelsea" To provide homes for 18 poor aged women. 20 St. Mary's Industrial School 1871 " Wellesley Road, West Croydon" " To receive girls from the London County Council, or committed by magistrates, from 6 to 16 years old." "£2,378" 150 St. Mary's Orphanage 1868 Walthamstow The education of Catholic girls chargeable to the rates. "£5,792" 212 St. Mary's Orphanage 1847 " North Hyde, Middlesex" For Catholic pauper boys sent by Boards of Guardians. "About £11,988" 412 St. Mary's Training College 1854 " Brook Green, Hammersmith, W." To train young men who have completed apprenticeship as pupil teachers to become masters of elementary schools. "£6,700" 114 St. Nicholas's Industrial School for Catholic Boys 1862 " Manor House, Manor Park, Essex, E." " To receive destitute boys, not convicted of crime, committed to the School by magistrates." "£5,019" 360 St. Scholastica's Retreat 1862 " Clapton, N." " Homes for poor and reduced Roman Catholics, of both sexes, having belonged to the Professional or Wholesale Commercial classes, not under 60 years." About £1700 35 St. Vincent de Paul Society 1844 " 82, Victoria St., S.W." To visit and to relieve poor families and to assist poor boys. "In London, £2650, expenditure £1849; in England, £15957, expenditure £15,096" "In England, 12,919 families, 7000 children on the Funds" The Incorporated Society of the Crusade of Rescue 1859 Incorp. 1905 " 48, Compton St., Russell Sq., W.C." " The motto of the Society is: ""No Catholic child who is really destitute or whose Faith is in danger, and who cannot be otherwise provided for, is ever refused.""" "£15,306, expenditure £13,623" 607 boys and girls Westminster Diocesan Education Fund. 1866 " Archbishop's House, Westminster" To promote the religious and secular education of the poor of Westminster diocese. "£3,536" 18 Certified Schools [-40-] Cat's Home 1885 " Battersea Park Road, S.W." To afford food and shelter to lost and starving cats. Included in Dog'sHome 3115 Cats were received "Central Africa, Universities Mission to" 1861 " 9, Dartmouth St., Westminster" To promote and foster true religion and civilization among the natives of Central Africa "£33,676" "Employed 156 European Missionaries, 651 Africans of whom 25 were clergy" 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." "£20,176" 568 boys and 490 girls "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." expenditure £4382 "677 In-patients, 82 soldiers and 10,358 Out-patients" 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." "£1,429" 50 girls Charing Cross Hospital 1818 " West Strand, near Charing Cross, W.C." The relief of the sick and injured poor. "£42,088, and Legacies £49, expenditure ordinary £27,357, extraordinary £3555" "2989 In-patients and 20,810 Out-patients" [-42-] 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." "At Central Office, £19,180 and at District Committees, £46,693: Total £65,873" "During the year 1914-15 the Society dealt with 15,173 cases" 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." 60 poor men in the Hospital; 60 Scholarships and 20 exhibitions 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." £460 181 and 32 pensioners "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." "About £2280, including inmates payments." About 150 "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. About £2000 14 Students in resdience 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." "£3774, expenditure £4476" 136 [-44-] "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. "£7348, included in accounts of National Refuges" 368 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." £215 (The children's pence do not come to the Society but go to support the dinners at the different rooms) "Kept open 10 dining-rooms in which were given 55,093 dinners" "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." "£7005, expenditure £8049" "In-patients, 1100. Out-patients, 20,915" "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." "Ordinary £2195, extraordinary £20; expenditure £2078, extraordinary £193" 80 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. "£553, expenditure £329" 164 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." "£66,230, expenditure £65,531" "138,969 children. Since the formation of the Society to March 1916, 2,542,286" 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)." "£5278, Legacies £100; expenditure £5705" "693 In-patients, and 15,111 Out-patients" [-46-] 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. "Ordinary £1183, extraordinary (including Legacies) £250" 178 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." "£5,293" 3347 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." £191 "14,133" 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. "£17,688 including £4,228 parents' payments" "15,995" "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." About 1000 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. "£1417, expenditure £1054, overdraft paid off £363 (in 1915 there was an overdraft of £4450)" 1137 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. £861 (ordinary) and £747 50 China Inland Mission 1865 " Newington Green, N." Mission work in the interior provinces of China. "Gt. Britain, £37,322" has over 1077 Missionaries in China [-48-] Chiswick Mission 1880 " 90, Thornton Avenue, Chiswick, W." To carry on a Gospel Mission among the poor. It is unsectarian. "£698, expenditure £707" 1000 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." "£908, expenditure £567" 26 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." "£80,967" "Average during the year 1915-16 788 boys, 262 girls" 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." "£17,600 (including from sales £13,799) expenditure £17,800" The sale of Scriptures and Christian publications exceeds one million annually 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. "£3,239" A very large number Christian Evidence Society 1870 " 34 Craven St., W.C." To declare and defend Christianity and check unbelief and scepticism. "About £1834, expenditure £1821" "Attendances at letures, 571,800" 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. "£19,915" "Publications, 2,978,465" [-50-] 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." "£360, including legacy £100" 60 inmates Christian Witness Fund. 1843 " 22, Memorial Hall, E.C." To assist aged Congregational ministers. £341 46 "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." "From all sources about £300,000" 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. "£6905, expenditure £7673" "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." "£5,130" "31 grants, amounting to £2175" 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." "£6,216" "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." £492 50 [-52-] 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. "£28,068, expenditure £37,046" Cannot possibly say Church Missionary Society 1799 " Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, Fleet St, E.C." To evangelise the heathen and Mahommedan world. "£360,515, expenditure £348,554" "Has 1360 Missionaries (Including Missionaries Wives, Laymen and Ladies), 486 Native Clergy, 11,664 Native Agents and Teachers, and 3151 schools. Medical Work: Beds, 4207, In-patients, 39,692, Out-patients, 1,156,646" 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." "£5529, expenditure £5665" 53 Lay readers employed; 60 parishes assisted 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." £1153 (exclusive of sale of books) About 8000 schools in connection "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." "£62,762, expenditure £61,385" "514,056 members" [-54-] 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. "£50,882" "Has 226 Ladies in Home and Local conection, including 17 qualified Lady Doctors, 58 Assistant Missionaries, and over 1100 Native Helpers" 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. "£863, expenditure £817" 96 parishes helped in 1916 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." "£1,610" Held about 100 Missions 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." "£57,532" 1115 additional workers supported in 716 parishse Church Penitentiary Association (Incorporated) 1851 " Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster" For founding and supporting houses of mercy and refuges throughout the country. "£1652, expenditure £2186" 186 Homes and Refuges 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." "£5671, expenditure £5536" Paid in relief 4760 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." "£910, expenditure £911" 4348 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." "£10,700" 1429 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. "£2019, expenditure £1822" "16,581" [-56-] 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." School entirely supported by Corporation of London 73 Boys and 59 Girls 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." "£1,709" 75 men and women pensioners 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. "£13,823, including £1145 legacise, expenditure £14,595" 947 In-patients and 7928 Out-patients 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." £7000 from grants and scholarships 722 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." about £8000 720 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. "£33,789, and legacies £255, expenditure £4297" "6000, to whom 5960 appliances were supplied" Clapham General and Provident Dispensary 1849 " 42, Manor Street, Clapham, S.W." To provide medical aid for the poor. "£448, expenditure £417" "2941 cases, 9054 attendances" [-58-] 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." "£2,564" "1080 maternity cases, and 11,978 general new cases" "Clergy, Charities To:-" Arnold Fund 1860 " 57, Coleman St., Office of Solicitors to Trustees." To maintain and assist the widows and orphans of clergymen of the Established Church of England. Private accounts 73 Ashton's Charity 1727 " Office of the Receiver, 35, Bucklersbury, London, E.C." " To relieve 30 poor clergymen and 30 widows. A distribution is made annually at the end of July or beginning of August. The amount is variable, being about £10 each grant (*Various other objects are included in this Charity, but the Receiver says that the above is the only portion of it that may be called public.)" Not stated 60 Becker's Bounty for Poor Pious Clergymen. 1856 " 37, Gay Street, Bath" " To provide bounties of £10 to £40 per annum for clergymen over 55 years old, physically unable to perform parochial duty." "£1,329" 49 Bishop Porteu's Fund 1805 " No Office. The address of the Archdeacon of Middlesex is The Rectory, Chelsea, S.W." To relieve the poor clergy of the dioceses of London (as it was in 1805) by grants of £5 or more. £175 17 grants Bromley College 1666 " Bromley, Kent" " To provide homes and pensions of £38 per annum for 40 clergymen's widows also at Sheppard's College, homes and pension of £44 per annum, for 5 spinster daughters of such widows deceased, also certain out-pensions for the like." "£2825, expenditure £2850" 50 and their families directly or indirectly benefited Cart's Charity to 1736 Dunstable " For 30 poor clergymen and 30 widows, or maiden daughters over 45 years. Given alternate years only to beneficiaries." £540 60 [-60-] Cholmondeley Charities 1833 " Corporation House, Bloomsbury Pl., Bloomsbury Sq., W.C." " To assist (under provisions of a deed of allotment in Chancery) by grants and pensions, disabled clergymen of the Church of England, their widows and aged maiden daughters. Also to help in the education of the children of clergymen by Exhibitions: sons at Oxford, Cambridge and Durham - to daughters over 14 to schools, colleges, and other institutions." "£4853, expenditure £4206 " 305 grants Clerical - London Clerical Education Aid Society " 1816, 1845,1876" " C.P.A.S., Falcon Court, Fleet Street, E.C." To assist in educating pious young men for the ministry of the Church of England. (The Clerical Education Aid Fund and the Clerical Education Society were amalgamated in 1876). "£902, expenditure £359" 29 students received grants "Clergy Seaside Rest, Margate" 1880 " Royal Crescent, Margate. London Office, Ye Anchorage, Wallington, Surrey" Affords Clergy and their wives from all Dioceses a seaside rest at inclusive charge of 25s. a week each. Cheap tickets from and to London can also be obtained. 42 Visitors at a time can be received. £1232 (1915) 283 from 34 dioceses Curates - Additional Curates Society (of Home Missions of the Church of England) 1837 " 21, Great Peter Street, Westminster, S.W." To provide funds for the employment of additional curates in poor and populous parishes. "£41,635 and Legacies &c. £6292" 1102 curates wholly or partially supplied Curates' Augmentation Fund. 1866 " 2 Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W." " To augment the stipends of curates of 15 years' standing, and upwards." "£8165, expenditure £10,107" "Made grants to curates, 180" Friend of the Clergy Corporation 1849 " 17, King William Street, Strand, W.C." " To give annual pensions of not more than £40 to the widows and orphan unmarried daughters of the clergy, and temporary aid to necessitous clergymen of the Established Church and their families." "£4287, expenditure £4782" 233 London Poor Clergy Holiday Fund 1876 " The Rectory, Ironmonger Lane, Cheapside, London, E.C." To provide holiday-rest for clergy in greater London who could not otherwise obtain it. "£2091, expenditure £2164" Over 200 [-62-] Ordination Candidates Exhibition Fund 1873 " 21, Great Peter St., Westminster, S.W." " To assist in supplying the necessary education to suitable candidates for holy orders, who would otherwise be unable to obtain it." £1785 in 1915 20 "Poor Pious Clergymen, Society for the Relief of" 1788 " 1, Penton Place, W.C." " To aid with money, etc., poor pious active clergymen of the Church of England, the tenor of whose preaching is in strict accordance with the 39 Articles." About £1000 About 100 "Richards's, Rev. Dr., Charity" 1850 " Charterhouse, E.C." To relief clergymen temporarily disabled by illness. Grants made in April and October. About £750 29 St. John's Foundation School for Sons of Poor Clergy 1852 " Leatherhead, surrey. Offices, 75, Victoria St., S.W." " To maintain and educate, from 9 to 15 years of age, the sons of poor clergymen now living." "£15,291, special contribution £519 to meet loss by fire" 275 Smith's (Henry) Charity 1620 " 99, Gt. Russell St., Bloomsbury" To give donations at Christmas to the poorest Clergymen who can be found having regular duty. £400 44 Society for the Relief of London Clergy and their Widows and Children 1791 " Sion College, Victoria Embankment, E.C." To assist clergymen and the widows and children of clergy of the cities of London and Westminster and the county of Middlesex. "£1001, excluding grants of the London Dioc. Board of Finance £775; £1663 on actual grants" 65 Thomson Hankey's Charity 1854 " 7, Mincing Lane, E.C." To give donations to needy widows and orphan children (under 16 years old) of clergymen of the Church of England. The interest of £10000 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." "£500, expenditure £570" 20 [-64-] 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." "£14,497, expenditure £12,125" "112 boys, 123 girls" Clergy Pensions Institution 1886 " 11, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C." Augmentation of Annuities paid for by the Clergy themselves. "£26,750" 309 Clothworkers' Co.'s Charities -- " Clothworkers' Hall, 41, Mincing Lane, E.C." " The following sundry charities, inter alia:-" Acton's Charity' 1837 As above Pensions of £10 to blind persons over 50 years of age. 4 Armitage Memorial Fund 1893 As above Income paid to British and Foreign Blind Association towards publication of Books for the Blind. Blind Women Workers Annuity Fund 1906 As above Pensions for unmarried blind gentlewomen. 3 Burnell's Charity 1630 As above One exhibition of £5 to Divinity Students unattached at Oxford. 1 Cornell's Charity 1850 As above Pensions of £10 to blind citizens of London. 7 Fawcett Memorial Scholarship Fund 1885 As above One scholarship of £50 per annum for a blind person at any of the Universities or Women's Colleges in the United Kingdom. 1 Heath's Almshouses 1648 " 34, Essex Road, Islington, N." Homes for the poor freemen of Clothworkers' Company. 10 Heath's Charity 1648 " Clothworkers' Hall, 41, Mincing Lane, E.C." " Exhibitions of £2 10s. (*Made up to £30 per annum out of the Company's corporate funds) to Divinity Students Unattached at Oxford, the like at Cambridge." 2 Heather's Charity 1841 " Clothworkers' Hall, 41, Mincing Lane, E.C." Donations of £10 each to 6 decayed housekeepers' widows annually in November. 6 [-66-] Hewett's Charity 1600 " Clothworkers' Hall, 41, Mincing Lane, E.C." One exhibition of £5 (*Made up to £30 per annum out of Company's corporate funds) to Divinity Students unattached at Cambridge. 1 Kent's Almshouses and Charity 1540 " Dean Street, Islington" Homes for seven poor freewomen of Clothworkers' Company. 7 Orton's Charity 1893 As above Pensions of £40 to two poor single gentlewomen of over 50 years of age. 2 Newnam's Charity 1810 Clothworkers' Hall Pensions of £10 to blind persons over 60 years of age. 40 Moore's Charity 1910 As above Supplement to Wing's Charity. Pilsworth Charity 1603 As above " One exhibition of £5 (*Made up to £30 per annum out of Company's corporate funds) to Magdalen College, Oxford." 1 Thwaytes's and Company's Own Added Charities 1835 As above Pensions of £10 to blind persons over 60 years of age. 100 "West's Charity, for the Blind" 1720 As above Pensions of £10 or £5 to blind persons over 50 years of age. 500 Wing's Charity 1890 As above Pensions of £20 to blind persons. 86 Mew's Charity 1911 As above Pensions of £10 or £5 to blind persons between 60 and 70 years of age. 3 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" "£716, expenditure £758" 34 annuitants and abour £25 spent in temporary relief Coachmakers' (Operative) Benevolent Society 1860 " 113, Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square, W." To provide pensions of 8s. per week for infirm and disabled members. £183 7 pensioners "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." £795 7 male and 9 female pensioners; and 9 relief grants Collard Almshouses 1859 " 195, Hoe Street, Walthamstow" Homes for ten poor and deserving men. £173 10 Colonial Bishoprics' Fund 1841 " 15, Tufton St., Westminster" To endow additional bishoprics in our colonies and dependencies. "£23,210" [-68-] 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." "£45,400" Employs 364 agents 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." "£5,623" 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." £171 "40 clergy and 4 lay readers, engaged in spiritual work" 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." "£15,890" 540 "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." "£20,871" "214 boys, 117 girls" "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." "Officers' Endowment Fund, £3044" "2668, 1901 members on service (the men on service remain members of the Corps)" 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. "£5377, expenditure £3675" 29 chapels and 3 manses added 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." "£4093, and £744 by Legacies" 195 pastors and 68 missionaries and evangelists were employed [-70-] 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. £7383 (including legacies) 249 Congregational Pastors' Widows' Fund' 1871 Ditto To provide annuities for the widows of Congregational pastors. "£6,354" 209 Evangelical Magazine Widows Fund 1793 " 22, Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., E.C." Grants from £5 to £10 each to widows of Evangelical ministers and special donations in urgent cases. £842 116 "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." "£1,637" 109 Convalescent Dinners Society 1882 " Hon. Secretary's address, 114, Queen's Gate, S.Kensington" To assist convalescent poor in recovering strength. £193 6824 dinners were given to 487 persons "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." "£2,674" 1787 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." "£1744 including patients' payments, expenditure £1968" 800 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." "£660, expenditure £706" 249 "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. Included in accounts of Dr. Barnardo's homes "122 boys, 98 girls in 1915; accommodation for 40 children" [-72-] Convalescent Home for Ladies 1880 Bognor " For the wives, widows, or daughters of gentlemen." Supported by Merchant Taylors' Co. 342 Convalescent Home for Men 1870 Ditto To receive convalescents from the London Hospitals and others. Ditto 730 Convalescent Home (The Reckit) 1908 " Clacton-on-sea. Office, Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway" For patients of the Great Northern Central Hospital and Others. "£1795, expenditure £1384" 343 In-patients 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." £696 460 "Convalescent Home, Homoeopathic" 1888 " 36, Enys Road, Eastbourne" For convalescent poor women and children. "£585, expenditure £590" 186 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." "£2300, expenditure £1559" 260 "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." "£3101, including £1210 in-patients payments" 1212 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. "£1,484" 350 [-74-] 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." Not stated About 450 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." Income £392; expenditure £931 149 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.)" £950 10 (10 at a time always in the home) "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. £85 8 Cooks' Company Charities:- Corbett's Gift and Kennedy's Gift to Clergy " 1674, 1789" " Clerk's Address, 34-36 Gresham Street, E.C." For clergymen's widows. £20 4 Coopers' Company's Charities:- "Ratcliff Charity (administered under schemes of the Charity Commission and Board of Education, dated 30th July, 1891)" 1540 " Coopers' Hall, 71 Basinghall Street, E.C." For education and the benefit of poor Members of the Company and poor persons in the parish of Stepney. "Strode's Charity Almshouse and School (administered under schemes of the Charity Commission and Board of Education, dated 22nd September, 1911, and 27th May, 1913)" 1703 " Egham, Surrey" For education and the benefit of the poor of Egham parish [-76-] Cordwainers Company's Charities:- "Blind, Cames's Charity to" 1796 " Cordwainers Company's Hall, 7, Cannon Street, E.C." " To grant pensions to blind men over 45, and to blind women over 30 years of age - must never have received parish relief, nor begged in the streets, and be residents in London, or within 100 miles of it." £575 115 "Deaf and Dumb, Cames's Charity to" 1796 As above " To grant pensions to deaf and dumb men over 40, and women over 25, not receiving parish relief, and residing with 100 miles of London." £250 50 "Clergymen's Widows, Cames's Charity to" -- As above " To grant pensions to widows (not less than 35 years of age) of clergymen who had a settled duty in London, or within 20 miles of it, at the time of their death." £200 40 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." Income about £2325 73 pensioners and annuitants 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." "£7760, expenditure £8217" 245; average during the year 1915 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." Private Fund 4 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." "£29,039, expenditure £28,527" 1729 [-78-] 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." "£3,452" Employed 44 missionaries 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. Included in accounts of Dr. Barnardo's homes 40 infants on average daily in the Creche "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." "£2090, expenditure £2367" 75 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." "£1,350" "35 boys always in the Home, 6 placed out in 1915" "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." "£12,862, expenditure £15,584" "252 children in Hospital, 60 lads in College" 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." £541 28 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." "£6291, expenditure £6716" 112 average in residence at the Home 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." "£1035, expenditure £980" 30 Curriers' Company:- William Dawes's Charity 1729 " Curriers' Hall, 6, London Wall" Pensions of 4 guineas a year to each of ten master curriers or their widows. 10 Samuel Jackson's Charity 1823 -- Pensions to eight journeymen curriers who shall have attained the age of 55 years. 8 [-80-] James Toleman's Charity 1908 Ditto Pensions of £4 annually to six poor journeymen curriers of good character. 6 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." "£1060, expenditure £504" "33 children, 71 widows" Cutlers' Company Charities:- " Warwick Lane, Newgate St., E." Bucke's Charity -- " Gresham House, 66, Old Broad Street." " One Exhibition of £3 6s. 8d. to St. John's College, Cambridge. Increased by Company to £30." 1 Craythorne's Charity -- Ditto. " Two Exhibitions of £3 6s. 8d. each, one to Oxford and one to Cambridge. Increased by Company to £30 each." 2 Cutlers' Company's Charity. -- Ditto. Two Exhibitions of £30 each to Cambridge. Three Exhibitions of £30 to Oxford. 5 Ditto -- Ditto " One Exhibition of £30 to King's College, London." 1 Ditto -- Ditto " One Exhibition of £30 to University College, London." 1 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." "£1,636" 63 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 "£1845, expenditure £1677" 51 inmates 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. "£9,000" 478 girls [-82-] 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." £100 8 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." "£1,975" Not stated 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." "£2,453" "60,000 visits" "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. "£1898, expenditure £1688" Impossible to state 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." £288 39 "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. "£18,257, and £5905 Legacise" 417 "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." "£1320, expenditure £1370" 37 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." Included in accounts of Dr. Barnardo's homes "36 in residence, end of 1915 (14 deaf and dumb, 22 blind)" [-84-] "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." "£2882, expenditure £4312" Work found for 319. Relieved and assisted 626 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." "£90, expenditure £179" "Since the charity was established about 95,028 seamen have been succoured" 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. "£2733, expenditure £4884" 160 "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." "£1,135" 2257 "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." "£1820, expenditure £1600" 845 [-86-] 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." "£5180, including £3250 from General Fund" "2891 (irrespective of these, 12,883 prisoners on their release accepted an invitation to breakfast, and several thousands signed the Temperance Pledge) adults and about 135 boys" "Discharged Prisoners' Aid, Surrey and South London Society" 1824 " H.M.'s Prison, Wandsworth" To assist prisoners on discharge from prison. "£1255, expenditure £1175" 1962 "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. £233 (two years' receipts) 105 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." "£2923, expenditure £3007" 347 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." "153 weekly grants, and occasional help to others" [-88-] Dock Labourers' Mission (Closed.) 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." "£1399 General Fund, £2230 Trust Fund" "£939 (Gen.Fund) given in pensions, and Trust Funds £204, Temporary relief £12" 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. "£747, expenditure £763" "295 libraries at home and abroad, and 8 schools in the Bahamas" Drapers' Company's Charities:- Bancroft's School 1728 " Woodford, Essex" " Education and maintenance of 100 boarding foundationers and about 200 day scholars from 10 to 13 years of age, and remain until 16 years of age." 300 "Blind, Grainger's Charity to" 1784 " Drapers' Company's Hall, 27, Throgmorton Street." " To grant pensions of £10, payable every other year to totally blind poor persons. No limit as to age. The pensions are of the value of £10 every other year." 13 Boreman's (Sir William) Foundation 1886 Ditto " The Governors have the right of nominating 100 boys between the ages of 11 and 14 as day scholars to the Upper Greenwich Hospital School - they can remain until 15½ years of age. Sons of watermen, seamen, inhabitants of Greenwich especially such as have served in Royal Navy or Marines, have the preference." [-90-] Edmonson's Almshouses 1706 " Bruce Grove, Tottenham" For decayed sailmakers or their widows. "£1,000" 29 almspeople Howell's Charity 1713 Drapers' Company's Hall. " This Charity is applied to various educational purposes in Wales, under schemes established in pursuance of Welsh Intermediate Education Act." "Jolle's, Sir J., Endowment Exhibition" 1617 " Old Ford Road, Bow" " For boys attending public elementary school in Bromley, St. Leonard's and Stratford-le-Bow, in Board's district - £20 for three years." Pennover's Charity 1652 Draper's Company's Hall Apprenticeship premiums for fatherless children of either sex above the age of 14. Russell's Charity 1576 " 27, Throgmorton St., E.C." One Exhibition at Oxford or Cambridge of £30 a year. £30 1 "Walter's Almshouses, otherwise Drapers' Company's Almshouses" 1651 " Drapers Street, Newington" To receive and support 48 almspeople. 48 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." Private Fund Dudley Stuart Home 1852 " 76, Junction Rd., Upper Holloway, N." To afford a home for training young girls for domestic service. "£1,014" "12 Girls placed in service, 30 new ones admitted to the Home" 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." Supported by the State 504 [-92-] Dutch Almshouses 1580 " Charlton, S.E." " Homes for poor aged members of the Dutch Church, Austin Friars, E.C." 21 "Dutch Servant Girls, Training School, for." 1912 Charlton As above. 11 Dyers' Company's Charities:- Chambers's Charity 1821 " Dyers' Hall, 10, Dowgate Hill" To give pensions to poor members of the Company or their widows. Balls' Pond Almshouses 1775 Ditto " For freemen of the Company and widows of such, homes and pensions." 7 Goldsmiths' Charity 1647 Ditto To lend small sums to young freemen. 7 "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." "£2078, including legacies. Expenditure £2069" 2009 Early Closing Association 1842 " 3, Tudor Street, E.C." To abridge excessive hours of labour in shops and warehouses. Shop assistants obtain other advantages. "£1724, expenditure £1813" Hours improved in many thousands of London shops 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." "Ordinary income £2847, King Edward's fund for Londno, £300. Legacies £100" 549 In- and 116 Out-patients Eastern Dispensary 1782 " Leman Street, Whitechapel" " The medical and surgical treatment of the poor, and when requested, at their own homes." "£916, expenditure £961" "36,197" 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." "£21,019 including Legacies £3227. Expenditure £22,073" 217 clergy (supported wholly or in part) 224 lay workers [-94-] 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." "£10,583, expenditure £10,834" "1538 children, In-patients; 66,093 Out-patients children and women" 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." 90 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." "£5628, including fees. Expenditure £5917" Average of 126 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." "£2,471" 100 "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." "£3,721" 55 emigrated "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." Included in accounts of Dr. Barnardo's homes "26,281 have been emigrated to end of 1915" [-96-] 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." £1170. Expenditure £1154 108 "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.)" "£10,763, expenditure £10,323" 414 "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." "£7815, expenditure £6409" "In-patients 520; Out-patients, 3100; with 22,871 attendances" 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." "£20,375, including receipts for board and education" "50 boys and 50 pensioners, also presentations for girls to St. Anne's Schools" 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." £838 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. "£12,450, expenditure £11,600" [-98-] 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." "£8,735" 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. £2463 (including payments by girls and women) 3520 girls and women 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." "£563, expenditure £544" 9273 cases were treated 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." "£14,173, expenditure £12,744" About 600 Feltmakers' Company Charities:- 1604 Has no Hall. Business transacted at Guildhall King's Gift Charity -- " Arundel House, Arundel St., W.C." " For poor members of the Company, and their widows." Macham's Charity -- As above " The relief of distressed members of the Company, and of poor felt hatmakers." [-100-] "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." "£4,574" 1843 "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." £3432 and Legacies £35 137 girls "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." Ordinary £1133; expenditure £1373 Average 53 "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." "£249, expenditure £261 " 50 societies affiliated [-102-] "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. "£11,592, expenditure £12,676" 1056 "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." "£8537, expenditure £9335" "Industrial Home, 131; Refuge 312; 183 Children sent for a fortnight's holiday; 547 dinners provided for children, and 204 persons helped" 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." "£581 and £211 Patients' payments. Total, £792, expenditure £924" 8271 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. "£2,000" 60 persons Fishmongers' Company's Charities:- 1283 " Hall, London Bridge, E.C." Gresham's School 1554 " Holt, Norfolk" Higher education of boys under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners. Jesus Hospital 1618 " Bray, Berkshire" " For 40 poor persons, 6 of whom must be free of Company, the remainder parishioners of Bray." 40 Quested's Charity 1642 Fishmongers' Hall One Exhibition of £60. [-104-] Quested's Charity 1642 Fishmongers' Hall To educate one child of a Freeman of Company in Christ's Hospital. 1 Quested's Hospital 1642 " Harrietsham, Kent." " For 12 poor persons, 6 of whom must be free of Company, the remainder parishioners of Harrietsham." 12 "St. Peter's Hospital, or Almshouses" 1618 " Wandsworth, S.W." " Homes for 42 poor members of the Company over 50 years of age, and 5 years free of the Company." 42 The Company's Exhibitions' Charity -- Fishmongers' Hall " 12 exhibitions of £40 each, to students at Oxford, Cambridge, University College, or King's College, London.* (*In addition to the above, the Company grant 4 Scholarships of £50 each to the City of London School - also 4 Scholarships of £50 each to the Central Foundation School, Cowper Street - together with a number of Educational Exhibitions to children of Freemen of the Company)" 12 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." "£5248, expenditure £4715" 497 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." £395 6 societies "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." "£4,964" "407 (£1457 paid to 249 pensioners and relieving distress. 32 passages, to assist foreigners to return home" Foundling Hospital 1739 " Guilford Street, Russell Square, W.C." The support of illegitimate children and the restoration of their mothers to society. "£32,256" 689 children Founding Hospital Benevolent Fund 1845 " Guilford Street, W.C." " For the relief of aged and distressed foundlings, by pensions, temporary relief, and small loans." £357 16 pensioners and 8 others assisted [-106-] 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." "£210, expenditure £214" "About 462 (Boys and Girls and 54 adults) in the Schools, weekly" Framework Knitters' Company's Almshouses 1727 " Kingsland Road, E." " Homes, etc, for 12 poor freemen or widows of freemen of the Company." 13 "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." "£3152, expenditure £3069" 6525 "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. "£270, expenditure £266" 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." £8167 (ordinary) expenditure £6136 735 In-patients and 6125 out-patients "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." "About £1922, expenditure £2063" Thousands of Foreigners are yearly reached and benefited through the various agencies of the Mission 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." Private funds "38 women, 17 men" [-108-] "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. "£4,800" over 180 orphans maintained; others being taken in 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." "£1130, expenditure £1250" 62 annuitants and 66 in almshouses; 68 received help Friends' Foreign Mission Association 1866 " 15 Devonshire St., Bishopsgate, E.C." " To promote Christian missions in India, Madagascar, Syria, China, and Ceylon." "Ordinary, £35,468, £34,625 on General Account for 1915" "32,883 adherents and members Sunday School 13998 Patients treated at Hospitals & Dispensaries* (*no returns from Syria)" "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. "£8095, expenditure £8086" "47,000" "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." "£800, expenditure £830" 46 [-110-] "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." Income £219 12 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." "£5063, expenditure £5858* (*The expenditure exceeded income due to war conditions)" 333 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." "£3311, expenditure £3381" 811 In- and 870 Out-patients; 89 nurses and 50 midwives trained 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." "£14,068" 1687 In- and 7294 Out-patients; 64 of the In-patients were sent to the Convalescent Home Ditto Convalescent Home for In- and Out-Patients from the Hospital 1908 " Hitchen, Herts." " In occupation of War Office since March, 1915." [-112-] Girdlers' Company's Charities:- Palyn's Almshouses' 1609 " Choumert Road, Rye Lane, Peckham, S.E." " Provides homes, etc., for poor aged people." 11 "Beeston's Gift, Almshouses" -- " Albert Road, Peckham Rye" " Provides homes, etc., for poor aged members of the Company or their widows." 9 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." £4500 (Central Fund) "Has 188,834 members, 39,024 Associates, and 1872 Branches" Girls' Guild of Good Life 1885 " Hoxton Hall, 130, Hoxton St., N." To promote temperance and religion amongst factory girls. £579 576 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." "£638, expenditure £663 " 42 "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. "£607, expenditure £606" 23 now in the Home; 359 since established 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. Included in general receipts of Dr. Barnardo's Homes 1884 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." "£1404, expenditure £2169" 876 [-114-] 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." £295 "25,000 adults and 42,000 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. "£1824, expenditure £1737" 104 annuitants Goldsmiths' Benevolent Institution 1833 " 21, Broad St., Golden Sq., W." To relieve by pensions aged and infirm members of the trade and their widows. "£2429, expenditure £2535" 174 annuitants (76 men and 98 women) "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:- Goldsmiths' Consolidated Charities -- " Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, E.C." The poor of the company. Pensions and grants. Ash's Charity 1652 Ditto City of Derby. Annual payment of £20. Bowes's Charity 1565 Ditto Poor women of Woolwich not less than 50 years of age. Pensions of £20 per annum. Clark's Charity 1894 Ditto Poor men of Putney not less than 60 years of age. Pensions of £20 per annum. Cureton's Charity -- Ditto " Poor blind persons of London or Middlesex, freemen of the Company or the City of London or their widows having preference. Pensions of £20 per annum." Farmer's Charity -- Ditto " Poor blind persons of London, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex or Herts. Pensions of £20 per annum." [-116-] Fox's Charity -- Ditto " Dean School, Cumberland. Annual payment of £10." Goldsmith's Company's Gift -- Ditto " Poor blind persons of London, Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, Essex or Herts. Pension of £20 per annum." Heydon's Charity -- Ditto Mercers' Company. Annual payment of £3 6s. 8d. Morrell's Charity 1703 Ditto The poor of the Company. Pensions and grants. Perryn's Charity 1656 " Goldsmith's Almshouses, East Acton" " Bromyard, Herefordshire. Annual payment of £32. Acton, Middlesex. Annual payment of £10. Needy men in residence at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Exhibitions of £50 per annum." Queen Victoria Commemoration Fund -- -- " Workmen in the gold and silver trades not members of the Company, and their widows. Grants." Smiths' Charity -- -- The poor of the Company. Apprenticeship grants. Strelley's Charity 1603 Goldsmiths' Hall " Men apprenticed for 7 years in Derbyshire, Notts, and City of Worcester. Two annual payments of £10 each. Poor maimed soldiers. Annual payment of £10. Needy men in residence at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Exhibitions." 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)." "£1420, expenditure £1447" 60 [-118-] 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." "Ordinary, £9995 in 1915" 338 boys in 1915 "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." "£2379, expenditure £2397" Average 311 In- and 700 Out-patients 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." "£26,654 (includign Provident Fund and Legacies)" 4706 "Great Northern Central Hospital, The" 1856 " Holloway Road, N." " The gratuitous relief of the sick poor, both as In- and Out-Patients." "£24,748, expenditure £24,305 " "2742 In- and 87,092 Out-patients of whom 23,115 were new cases" 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." £331 74 "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." "£201,613 expenditure £195,194" [-120-] 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." "£2309, expenditure £2678" 80 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." 1 Almshouses 1556* (*This date refers to the foundation of the charity - the Grocers' Company was founded in 1345) " At Oundle, Northamptonshire" 7 almsmen Emme Bacchus' Gift* (*In abeyance during the war) 1587* (*This date refers to the foundation of the charity - the Grocers' Company was founded in 1345) " Princes Street, E.C." " Exhibitions for poor scholars, four at Oxford and four at Cambridge." 8 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." "£1,142" 78 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." About £1200 54 always in the Home 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. "£71,308 (ordinary expenditure £82,307, extraordinary £1141" "9900 In-patients and 110,932 Out-patients" Haberdashers' Company's Charities:- 1448 " Hall, 33, Gresham Street, E.C." "Apprenticing, Gifts towards" -- Haberdashers' Hall. The Company has several Gifts for this purpose for sons of members. [-122-] Aske's Charity and Grammar Schools 1688 "The Schools are at Acton, West Hampstead, and at Hatcham, New Cross, S.E." "£1500 in pensions and grant of various amounts to freemen of Company over 50 years old, and Schools" £7000 from Company 32 pensioners; 800 boys and 800 girls at the schools Bankes's Charity 1716 Haberdashers Hall " Pensions of £10 or £5 each to 20 poor freemen of the company, and of £5 each to 20 widows - of £2 10s. each to 5 men and 5 women of St. Saviour's Parish, and 5 men and 5 women of Parish of Battersea." 60 Bond's Ditto 1671 Ditto " Now affords pensions to poor freemen of Company, subscriptions to Hospitals or Infirmaries." Bunbury Free Grammar School 1594 Bunbury The education of children. Founded by Thomas Aldersey. About 124 scholars Clarke's Ditto 1608 Ditto " Two exhibitions, £5 each, one at Oxford, and one at Cambridge (increased by Company to £10 each)" Culverwell's Gift -- Ditto " Two exhibitions. £5 each, one at Oxford, and one at Cambridge, paid to nominees of the Bishop of London." Exhibitions -- Ditto " For children at the Schools, also for advanced students and apprentices of the Company, sons and grandsons of Liverymen." "£1,200" Gourney's Ditto -- Ditto One of £5 per annum for a Scholar of any College at Oxford or Cambridge. Hammond's Gift 1638 Ditto " To 6 poor men of Company, £12 10s. each and to 3 widows £10 each." Hazlefoot's Ditto 1646 Ditto " To poor of Company, to 4 hospitals." Jeston's Gift 1622 " Haberdashers' Hall, 33, Gresham St., E.C." " To poor of company, of Lambeth, of Kinver, Staffordshire, to poor clergymen of the Church of England, to Hospitals, and other poor of Company, 3 Exhibitions, £50 each, Trinity College, Cambridge, and to Convalescent Hospitals." [-124-] Jones's Preacherships 1614 Ditto Grants to Metropolitan incumbents for preacherships. "Peacock's, Sir Stephen, Charity" 1535 Ditto Gifts to poor of Company. "Rainton, Sir Nicholas, Ditto" 1646 Ditto " To 25 poor men and widows, small gifts." Trotman's Ditto 1663 Ditto Educational chiefly. Whitmore's Ditto 1613 " Haberdashers' Hall, 33, Gresham St., E.C." To clothe 10 poor widows. "Wood, W.H." 1869 Ditto. " 3 widows' pensions, £10 each." 3 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." £617 57 annuitants Hackney College 1803 West Hampstead " To prepare students for the Christian ministry, and to administer various Church and educational trusts." "£2934, expenditure £2866 " 24 students; and assisted various chapels and almshouses 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. "£395, including legacy of £100, expenditure £442" 21 inmates 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." "Ordinary income £10,005, expenditure £12,843" "1323 In-patients and 19,152 new Out-patients" [-126-] 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." "£1,568" "3728 nights' lodgings about 78,882 meals and 78 tons of coals given" 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." £47 from charity; £330 from members 3168 Heart.- National Hospital fir Diseases of the Heart 1857 " Westmorland St., Marylebone, W." To afford relief to the poor suffering from diseases of the heart. "£3084, expenditure £3269" "15,049 attendances of Out-patients. In-patients 180" 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." "£857, expenditure £762" "Monthly allowances to 32 persons. 102 grants to special cases. Over 296 parcels of clothing, also other benefits" Heath's Almshouses and Charity 1648 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. "£1,241" 9 Herefordshire Society 1710 " Temple, E.C." " To clothe and apprentice poor boys, the sons of Herefordshire parents or natives of that county." About £80 11 Apprentices [-128-] 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." Included in accounts of Dr. Barnardo's homes 755 Out-patients; 215 In-patients; 5705 attendances 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." 26 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. £314 527 "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." "£4016, expenditure £4000 (1915) " 150 "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)" £630 including grant from General Fund of £500 About £117 "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." £2700 expenditure £2594 "380 In- 4240 Out-patients, and attendances." [-130-] 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." £3202 Patients' payments; Legacies £1100; Subscriptions £237; Donations £432 73 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." £834 (including children's payments) 262 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. Included in accounts of Dr. Barnardo's homes "210 in residence, 1915" 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." As above "82 in residence, end of 1915" 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." "General Fund, £2190" 215 inmates in 19 homes "Homes (The) for Little Boys. Farningham and Swanley, Kent (Incorporated)" 1864 " Farningham and Swanley, Kent. Office, 56, 57, Temple Chambers, E.C." " For homeless and destitute boys under 10 years of age, from all parts of the world, on payment of 8s. a week, or free by election of subscribers." "£14,155, expenditure £16,316" 285 Homes for Orphans (In connection with the Homes (The) for Little Boys) 1872 " Office, 56, 57, Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue, E.C." " To maintain, clothe, and educate fatherless boys of respectable parentage, under 12 years of age, on payment of £25 a year." Included in the above account 192 [-132-] Hopton's Almshouses 1730 " Holland Street, Blackfriars Rd., S.E." " Homes for poor decayed householders of parish of Christchurch, Blackfriars Road, and £13 per annum." About £725 28 Homes for Working Boys in London 1870 " 30, Spital Square, 63, Warwick Av., W., 88, Blackfriars Rd., S., 16 Queen Sq., W.C., 14, Grove Pk., Camberwell, S.E., 14, Fournier St., E.C., 9, Wine Office Court, E.C." " To provide homes for working boys between 14 and 18 years of age, to save them from the temptations of common lodging houses. Each boy pays from 5s. per week towards maintenance." Subs and Dons. £2741 636 Homes for Working Girls in London 1878 " 10,11, and 12, Bulstrode St., W., 12 York Place, Baker St., W., 11-14, Fitzroy St., W., 8 Fitzroy Sq., W., 8, Endsleigh Gard., N.W., 28, Duncan Ter, Islington, N., 31, Draycott Avenue, Sloane Sq., S.W., 47, Princes Sq., Bayswater." " To provide homes for girls and young women employed in the workrooms, shops, Offices, etc. of the metropolis. The present Homes accommodate 550." "£10,524 inclusive of moneys paid by the girls" 987 Homes of Hope 1860 " 4,5 & 6, Regent Square, Gray's Inn Road, W.C." " For the restoration of the first fallen and the protection of friendless, young women." "£1,030" 140 inmates Home of the Good Shepherd 1865 " Davis Lane, Leytonstone, E." Orphanage and Industrial Home. Expenditure £2273 90 "Home Hospital for Women, formerly Invalid Asylum" 1825 " 187, High St., Stoke Newington" Temporary Home for respectable women obliged by sickness to quit their employment. "£949, expenditure £1292" 180 [-134-] "Horses, Home of Rest for" 1886 " Westcroft Farm, Cricklewood, N.W. (formerly at Acton)" " 1. To enable cabmen, tradesmen, and others, to procure on moderate terms or free of charge, rest for animals that are temporarily failing, and are likely to be benefited by a few weeks' rest and care. 2. To provide horses for poor persons for temporary use while their own are resting in the Home. 3. To provide an asylum for old favourites." "£4472, expenditure £3588" "202 Horses and Donkeys, 61 old favourites" Hospital (Alexandra) for Children with Hip Disease 1867 " Queen Square, Bloomsbury. Clandon, Surrey" The surgical treatment of the children of the Poor suffering from Hip Disease - girls between the ages of 3 and 12 yrs - boys between 3 and 11. The Hospital has 90 beds. "£6487, expenditure £5384" "168 In-patients, and 100 Out-patients' attendances" Hospital (The) for Sick Children 1852 " Gt. Ormond St., W.C. Branch Hospital, Cromwell House, Highgate, N." 1. To provide medical treatment to the children of the poor during sickness. 2. To promote the advancement of medical science with reference to the diseases of childhood. 3. To diffuse amongst all classes of the community and chiefly among the poor a better acquaintance with the management of infants and children during illness. "Ordinary £18,056, and Extraordinary £3893; Expenditure £21,109, extraordinary £2153" "2958 In-patients, and 23,281 New Out-patients; to seaside or country, 623; to convalescent branch, 69" Hospital Saturday Fund " 1873, Incor. 1890" " 54, Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C." " To obtain subscriptions in aid of the Metropolitan Hospitals, Dispensaries, and Convalescent Homes, from Artisans and others, not reached by the Hospital Sunday Fund." "£36,809 (in 1915)" "35,040 in grants to hospitals and other medical institutions" Hospital Sunday Fund " Nov., 1872" " Mansion House, E.C., Office, 18, Queen Victoria Street, E.C." " To provide increased funds for the various Metropolitan Hospitals, Dispensaries, and District Nursing Associations, by collections at Churches and Chapels on one Sunday in each year." "£75,646 (in 1915)" "Institution benefited 163 Hospitals, 47 Dispensaries, and 32 nursing associations received awards." "Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, The." 1841 " 71, Blackfriars Road, S.E." " The medical treatment of the poor afflicted with cutaneous disease, gratuitously and on small payment." "£2282, expenditure £782" 4594 [-136-] "Hospital (The Victoria) For Children. Homes (Convalescent) at Broadstairs, and Biggin Hill, Kent." 1866 " Tite Street, Chelsea, Broadstairs, and Biggin Hill, Kent" " The reception and care of sick children from infancy - boys up to the age of 12, and girls to the age of 14. The Hospital has 104 beds, 50 at Broadstairs, and 14 at Biggin." "At Hospital, £11,063, expenditure £9930, Broadstairs, £1437, expenditure £1423" "1233 In-patients; 65,629 Out-patients. Inpatients 465 " Hostel of God (Home for the Dying) 1891 " 29, North Side, Clapham Common, S.W." " Home where men and women in the last stages of illness may end their days in peace, attended by skilled nursing." Not stated Not stated Houseboy Brigade Society 1870 " 153, Ebury St., S.W. 146 and 148, Marylebone Rd., and 22 and 23, Allsop Mews, N.W." To train orphans or destitute boys for domestic service and useful trades. The boys earn two-thirds of their maintenance. £1973 (including boys' earnings) 274 House of Charity for Distressed Persons in London 1846 " 1, Greek Street, Soho Square." " Temporary board and lodging for distressed persons, with a view to ultimate and permanent benefit." Total Expenditure £1114 176 "House of Rest for Evangelical Christian Workers, and also a Permanent Home for Aged Female Workers" 1866 " 10, Finchley Road, N.W., and Burlington Place, Eastbourne, Sussex" " To afford temporary rest to any engaged in Mission Work, belonging to any Protestant Evangelical Denominations, also a Home for Aged Workers, at 10A, Finchley Road." "£2990, expenditure £2774" 958 House of Shelter* (*suspended during the War) " Feb., 1887" " 3, Baggally St., Burdett Rd., E." " To help the destitute and homeless poor, and assist them to find work or to emigrate." £251 380 Houseless Poor Society 1819 " Men's Asylums, 6, Banner St., E.C., 55, Warner Place, Hackney Road, N.E., Women's, 21, Nutford Pl., W., 3, Queen St., Edgware Rd., & 39, Homer St., W. Office, 55, Bryanston St., W." " To provide warmth, food, shelter for the really homeless and destitute during winter. Inmates work towards cost of maintenance." £1500 Interest on investments and donations "37,978 nights' lodgings and 147,069 meals given." [-138-] Howard Association 1866 " Devonshire Chambers, 43, Bishopsgate St., Without" The purpose of this institution is chiefly educational and the promotion of the best methods for the treatment and prevention of Juvenile and Adult crime. "From all sources, £235 (including legacies)" 18 Howard Institution 1859 " 99, Canon Street, London, E.C." Grants pensions to widows of naval and military Officers. Allowances of not less than £40 per annum. £210 from dividends 3 Huggens's College 1844 " Northfleet. Office, 3, Mitre Court Temple, E.C." " To provide pensions, with homes, and out-pensions for a limited number of ladies and gentlemen in reduced circumstances, not less than 60 years old." Private endowment 89 Hussey's (Miss Rebecca) Book Charity 1862 " Norfolk House, Victoria Embankment." Grants of religious and useful books to schools and other institutions in the United Kingdom. About £500 About 112 grants Imperial Protestant Federation 1896 " 363, Clapham Road, S.W." " To oppose Romanism, Ritualism, Rationalism, Infidelity, and everything contrary to God's written Word." "£2,111" Indian Mutiny Relief Fund 1857 " The Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation, Seymour House, 17, Waterloo Place, S.W." For relief of the relatives of those killed during the Mutiny. Closed to new cases. "£289, expenditure £1113" 45 "Inebriates, Home for Women, Spelthorne S. Mary and S. Bridget" 1884 " Bedfont, near Feltham, Middlesex" " For the treatment, spiritual, moral and physical of women who have been inebriates. The Institution is under the care of the Sisters of S. Mary the Virgin, Wantage." "£1001 Patients' Payments, £25 from needlework, and £35 from subs. and Donations" 29 admissions and 29 departures "Inebriates, Reformation and After-Care Association, The" " Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W." " To promote the reformation and restoration of inebriates, and provide for their after-care" also to stimulate and assist all authorities in carrying out the provisions of the Inebriates Acts. £244 72 "Inebriates, West Holme Home for Women" 1885 " Staines Road, Hounslow" To reform inebriate women of the middle class. A few of the lower class are received as workers. "£947, expenditure £927" 12 [-140-] Incorporated Homes for Ladies of Limited Income 1875 " In Wandsworth. Office, 31, Park Road, Wandsworth Common. To provide homes for Protestant ladies above 50, and under 70 years of age at time of admission, with an annual income of not less than £20 or more than £50 per annum." "£1125, expenditure £1057 " 35 ladies Infants Hospital (The) 1903 " Vincent Square, Westminster" The treatment of the disorders and diseases of nutrition in infants. "£2837, expenditure £3330" "In-patients. 337; Out-patients, 982" Infant Orphan Asylum 1827 " Wanstead, Essex. Office, 63, Ludgate Hill, E.C." " The maintenance and education of the orphans of those once in prosperity, from their earliest infancy until 15 years of age." "£12,828, expenditure £15,581" 400 Inspection of Homes Association 1902 " Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W." " To effect a voluntary coalition for the inspection of institutions engaged in the rescue, training, education and protection of women and children." £109 Institute of Journalists' Orphan Fund 1891 " Tudor Street, E.C." The support and education of necessitous orphans of deceased members of the Institute. "£1,613" 42 Institute of Journalists' Provident Aid Fund 1898 " Tudor Street, E.C." To promote providence amongst members of the Institute. £242 70 Invalid Children's Aid Association (London) Incorporated 1888 " 69, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Westminster, S.W." Supervision and assistance of the Invalid and Crippled Children of the London poor. "£7928, expenditure £7853" 8514 (centres and branches) Irish Church Mission 1849 " 11, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C." For making known the Gospel to the Roman Catholics and others in Ireland. "£11,319, expenditure £11,684" Has 20 missions Irish Distressed Ladies' Fund 1887 " 7A, Lower Grosvenor Place, S.W." " The relief of ladies who were left provided for by changes on Irish landed property, owing to the non-receipt of their incomes, are in absolute poverty." £1874 and 4 legacies "51 lady pensioners and £1114 in grants for illness, etc." [-142-] Ironmongers' Company's Charities:- " Ironmongers' Hall, 117½, Fenchurch Street, E.C." The following are some of the Company's Charities:- Betton's Charity 1723 Ditto. " Provides funds for repair of Church of England schools in the city and suburbs of London, and in England and Wales, in sums of from £5 to £20 per annum each." "£7,275" 540 schools Ditto 1723 Ditto " Provides pensions of £10 to £20 per annum for freemen of Company, their widows and children." "£1,000" 57 Chapman's Charity 1579 Ditto Two Divinity exhibitions at Oxford University of £5 each. £10 2 Dane's (Margaret) Charity 1279 Ditto " Two exhibitions one at Merton College, Oxford, and one at St. Peter's College, Cambridge." £5 2 Ditto -- Ditto Gifts to poor maids on marriage. 10 Geffery's Almshouses and Charity 1703 " Mottingham, Kent" Homes and pensions for poor. "£1,654" 36 Hallwood's Charity (Supplemented) 1622 Ironmongers' Hall " Four exhibitions of £30 each to poor scholars in Divinity at Universities, two at Oxford and two at Cambridge." £120 4 Lewen's Almshouses 1555 Ditto " Homes for 4 poor Freemen of Ironmongers' Company, each of whom receives £10 annually." £40 4 Ditto Charity (Supplemented) -- Ditto " Two exhibitions at Universities of £30 each, one at Oxford and one at Cambridge." £60 2 Handson's Ditto (Supplemented) 1653 Ditto " Gives to 20 poor widows of the Company, £2 each." £40 20 Westwood's Charity 1878 Ditto Grants to widows and daughters of freemen inmates of the almshouses. £62 7 Wild's Charity 1846 Ditto Grants to inmates of the Almshouses not free of the Company. £90 29 Islington Dispensary 1821 " 303, Upper St., Islington" " To provide medical and surgical aid to the poor, visiting them at their own homes when necessary, if within the district, also where medical Officer deems necessary supplying relief in kind. To help poor women and children not benefited by Insurance Act." £791 6734 [-144-] "Italian Benevolent Society, and Home for Aged Poor" 1861 " 2, Parton Street, Red Lion Sq., W.C." " To relieve poor Italians - to procure them employment - to assist the distressed back to Italy. Home also provided in which aged poor have use of a room free, and weekly aid, coal and gas gratis." "£2,310" 4500 Italian Hospital 1884 " Queen Square, Bloomsbury, W.C." " For the maintenance and medical treatment of persons suffering sickness or bodily infirmity, without distinctions of nationality or creed, preference given to Italians." "Ordinary £4152, expenditure £4150" In-patients 721; 3773 Out-patients Jewish - Anglo-Jewish Association 1871 " 85, London Wall, E.C." " To protect Jewish civil and political rights, and to promote Jewish education in foreign parts." "£4203, expenditure £3745" "Jewish Communities in Europe, Asia and Africa" Jewish Faith. - Society for Relieving Aged Needy of the Jewish Faith 1829 " 140, Leadenhall St., E.C." " To give pensions not exceeding 5s. a week to poor Jews and Jewesses, aged 60 years and upwards." "£1374, expenditure £1453" 120 "Jewish Poor, Board of Guardians for Relief of" 1859 " Bishopsgate, E." " To give money, provisions and medical aid, and to lend money, sewing-machines, etc., to Jewish poor (among whom it acts as a Mendicity Society). It also assists emigrants and apprentices youths." "£68,828, including legacies" 3267 families Jews. - City of London Benevolent Society for Assisting Jewish Widows in Distress 1867 " 4, Great Prescot Street, E." " To relieve poor distressed Jewish widows, with pensions of 5s. a week for 13 weeks, and £1 bonus at the expiration of that time. Special grants for monetary relief." £287 76 Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home 1865 " The Grange, 101, Nightingale Lane, Wandsworth Common, S.W." " To support and train deaf mute Jewish children to read from the lips of others, and to speak audibly, also to give general instruction to other deaf mute children, and apprentice them to a trade." "£2545, and legacies, £55, expenditure , £2891" 52 maintained through Education Committees Jews' Emigration Society 1852 " 20, Bucklersbury, London, E.C." To assist unsuccessful Jews to emigrate to less-crowded fields of labour. £544 71 emigrated Jews' Free School 1817 " Bell Lane, Spitalfields" To educate poor Jewish boys and girls. "£7405, expenditure £9440" 3000 [-146-] Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum 1795 " West Norwood. Office, 31, Duke Street, Aldgate" " For the support of the aged and the maintenance, education, and employment of youth." "£9768, expenditure £13,600" 12 pensioners and 400 children Jews' Infant Schools 1841 " Commercial St., Spitalfields and Buckle Street, Whitechapel, E." To instruct the young. £707 (exclusive of L.C.C. payments to the schools) About 1025 Jewish Lads' Brigade 1897 " Camperdown House, Aldgate, E." " To instil habits of orderliness, cleanliness, and honour into the rising generation of the Jewish community." "£2,000" 3000 Jews' Temporary Shelter 1885 " 82, Leman St., Whitechapel, E." " To provide strangers with board and lodgings for a few days, and to protect them from being imposed on." "£4,325" "68,884 meals; 3327 persons" "Job and Postmasters', Coach Proprietors', Horse Dealers', and Livery Stable Keepers' (of England) Provident Fund" 1839 " Tattersall's, Knightsbridge. Office, 120, Queen Victoria Street, E.C." To relieve members and their widows and orphans in distress. "£1037 (year from June £30, 1914 to ditto, 1915), expenditure £1156" 37 John Groom's Crippleage formerly known as The Watercress and Flower Girls' Christian Mission 1866 " The Crippleage, Sekforde St., Clerkenwell, E.C." To assist the poor street-hawkers of flowers and watercress. Orphanage for 250 little girls. Blind and Crippled Girls' Industrial Training Homes. "£20,045" "About 15,000" Jubilee Training Home 1887 " 7, Parson's Green, Fulham, S.W. Office, 200, Euston Road, N.W." To train for service respectable girls rescued from dangerous moral surroundings. Included in London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institute. 93 Kensington Branch of Girls' Friendly Society and Female Servants' Home and Registry 1878 " 7, Upper Phillomore Place, High St., Kensington" " A temporary home and registry for pupil teachers, shop assistants, dressmakers and servants seeking engagements." £311 490 Kensington and Fulham General Hospital 1887 " Richmond Road, Earl's Court, S.W." To supply medical and surgical aid to necessitous poor. Paying patients received. "£2736, expenditure £2380" "8243 new cases, 23,897 old cases" [-148-] Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital 1840 " 49 & 51, Church St., Kensington, W." " To give medical and surgical aid to the sick poor not receiving parish relief, at the Dispensary, or, if needed, at their own homes, if within the district of the Charity, and treat children in the Hospital." "£1096, expenditure £1125" 3694 "Kilburn, Maida Vale, and St. John's Wood General Dispensary" 1862 " 13, Kilburn Park Road, N.W." " To give gratuitous medical aid to sick poor, both at the dispensary and their own habitations." £365 2054 patients "King Edward Certified Industrial Schools, for Girls" 1848 " Andrew's Road, Cambridge Heath. Office, 6, Lime St., E.C." " Educates, feeds, and clothes, and places out at service, girls from six to sixteen years of age." "£2761, expenditure £2756" About 105 King Edward's Hospital Fund for London 1897 " 7, Walbrook, E.C." " To secure more efficient support for the Hospitals of London, and thus to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of their accession of her late Majesty Queen Victoria." "£226,780 (including £12,950 capital, of Lewis' estate £34,121 and Legacies £4412)" "145 Institutions to the amount of £168,000" King Edward's Schools (Bridewell Royal Hospital) 1830 1553 " Boys' School at Witley, near Godalming, Surrey. Girls' School in St. George's Rd., Southwark, S.E." " For the maintenance, education, and industrial training of 470 destitute children of both sexes between 11 and 15 years old." "About £20,000 from Fund of Bridewell Hospital" "In school, 236 boys, 187 girls." King's College Hospital 1839 " Denmark Hill, S.E." To give in- and out-door medical and surgical aid to the poor. "£65,190 and Legacise £1262" "12,898 In-patients, and 16,497 Out-patients" King's College Hospital Convalescent Home 1878 " Hemel Hempstead, Herts." To assist convalescent patients. It has 40 beds. "£1236, expenditure £1262" 227 Kingsdown Orphanage (Mrs. Ginever's Homes) 1874 " 160 & 162 Hornsey Lane, Highgate, N." Girls' Orphanage "£2,481" 116 (accommodation in the Homes) Kingsdown Orphanage (Mrs. Ginever's Homes) 1883 " 29, Pemberton Gardens, N." Boys' Home see above see above [-150-] Kyble Society 1876 " 92, Victoria St., S.W." " To bring beauty home to the people by decorating Institutions, laying out open spaces, distributing books, and organizing free performances of music." £223 Ladies' Charity School (for Training Girls as Servants) 1702 " Powis Gardens, Notting Hill" " For educating, clothing, maintaining, and training for domestic service the daughters of respectable parents in necessitous circumstances." £460 35 (1500 since founded) Ladies' Home 1859 " 53, Abbey Road, St. John's Wood, N.W." " Affords board, lodging, and medical attendance to ladies on payment of 14s.-18s. per week, whose income is between £40 and £80 per annum. Ladies over 70 or with chronic illness are ineligible." "£914, expenditure £880" 20 Lady Margaret Hospital 1903 " Camberwell, S.E., and Bromley, Kent" Healing of the sick. "£890, expenditure £880" "74 In-patients, 500 Out-patients" Ladies' Samaritan Society (in connection with National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic) 1861 " National Hospital, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, W.C." " To aid by sending patients to Convalescent Homes, etc." "£431, expenditure £419" 202 Ladies' Society for the Assistance of Ladies in Reduced Circumstances 1887 " 192, Lancaster Road, North Kensington, W." To help ladies in reduced circumstances. "£11,645" Over 100 Lambeth Pension Society 1826 " 113, Clapham Road" To grant permanent pensions to decayed householders of the Borough of Lambeth. Reduced to one-third at the age of 70. "£1,585" 106 Latymer Road Mission (Incorporated with the Ragged School Union) 1862 " Blechynden St., Notting Hill" " Provides a day nursery for infants - Sunday schools - gospel services - evening shelter for boys - recreative clubs and classes - wood chopping, etc. Branch Ward, Fordham Union, 1, Walmer Road." "£1,831" Average attendance about 1600 weekly Law Association 1817 " 3, Gray's Inn Place, Gray's Inn, W.C." The relief of the widows and families of solicitors in the Metropolis. "£1760, expenditure £1843" 59 [-152-] Law Clerks. - United Law Clerks Society 1832 " 2, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C." " To assist members when deprived of health by means of sick and superannuation allowances - to relieve distressed members, their widows and families, and also non-members and their widows." "£9134, expenditure £5988" 211 sick; 83 pensioners; 62 families assisted with gifts "League of Mercy, The" 1899 by Royal Charter " 29, Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C." " To promote the welfare of Hospitals, by obtaining small subscriptions for the support of King Edward's Hospital Fund. Grants are also made to country and cottage Hospitals in country Districts where The League is well supported, and in 1915 Grants to the amount of £2878 were allocated." "£14,000 contributed to King Edward's Hospital Fund for London in 1915, £230,000 since the foundation of League" Leathersellers' Company's Charities:- 1444 " Leathersellers' Hall, St. Helen's Place, Bishopsgate Street, E.C." Grants to aged poor freemen and widows of freemen. 36 Leathersellers' Almshouses " 1544, 1838, 1851" " Barnet, Middlesex" Almshouses for 7 poor aged freemen and 13 aged widows of freemen of Company. 20 Elliott's Charity 1605 Leathersellers Hall One Exhibition for a poor scholar at one of the Universities of Cambridge or Oxford. £76 1 Holmden's Ditto 1619 -- One Ditto. £4 1 Humble's Ditto 1638 -- Two Ditto. £8 2 Moseley's Ditto 1617 -- One Ditto. £76 1 Rogers's Ditto 1601 -- Four Ditto. £186 4 Leather and Hide Trades' Provident and Benevolent Institution 1860 " 7, Denham St., London Bridge, S.E." " To relieve aged and infirm members of the leather, hide, tanning, currying, leather-dressing, leather-manufacturing, and shoe mercery trades by pensions of £40 and £30, of £25 and £20 to their widows, and also of £6 to orphans." "£3871, expenditure £3639" 128 [-154-] "Lebanon Hospital (The) for Mental Diseases (Asfureiyeh, near Beyrout, Syria)" 1896 " Central Office, 35, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C." " An asylum fro the humane and intelligent treatment of the mentally afflicted in the East, irrespective of creed or nationality. The only one between Cairo and Constantinople." "£3516, expenditure £3601" 201 Licensed Victuallers' Asylum 1827 " Asylum Road. Office, Old Kent Road" " To receive and maintain for life necessitous aged members, and their wives or widows." "£6,047" 270 Licensed Victuallers' Permanent Fund and School 1794 " 127, Fleet Street. School at Kennington Lane, Lambeth" " To relieve poor members, their wives and widows, and to educate their children." "School only, £5798, expenditure £7500 " "170 in school, 153 on fund" Limehouse Philanthropic Society 1837 " Secretary's address, Copenhagen Wharf, Limehouse, E." To relieve the poor of Limehouse and its vicinity during the winter months. £110 522 "Linen and Woollen Drapers, Silk Mercers, Lacemen, Haberdashers, and Hosiers' Institution and Cottage Homes, The (Homes incorporated 1899)" 1832 " Atlantic House, Holborn Viaduct, E.C." " To render pecuniary assistance to members and their widows and orphans, when in necessitous circumstances, sick allowance and free medical attendance for members resident in London. Cottage Homes for 52 aged Pensioners at Mill Hill, near Hendon, Middlesex." "£8469, expenditure £9676" 406 Literary Association of the Friends of Poland 1832 " 10, Duke Street, St. James's, S.W." To diffuse information about Poland to relieve poor and sick Polish refugees and to assist them to emigrate. £104 83 Livingstone College (now being used as a Military Hospital) " 1893, Incor. 1900" " Livingstone College, Leyton. N.E." " For the instruction of Foreign Missionaries in the elements of Medicine and Surgery. The St. James the Less Medical Mission, Bethnal Green, E., is connected with Livingstone College." "£2000, expenditure £1692" 32 students Lloyd's Patriotic Fund 1803 " At Brook House, Walbrook, E.C." " For the relief of soldiers, seamen, and marines disabled in action, and of widows or dependent relatives of Officers and men whose deaths were due to service - also the education of children of such Officers and men." "£3918, expenditure £3115" 339 persons and 118 children being educated [-156-] London Lock (Female) Hospital and Rescue Home 1746 " Harrow Road, W." The treatment of in-patients (females exclusively) suffering from venereal diseases. "£7,097" 340 London Lock (Male) Hospital 1862 " 91, Dean Street, Soho, W." " The treatment of males as In-patients and of both males and females as Out-patients, suffering from venereal diseases." "£2,403" "840 In-patients, and 35,346 Out-patients" London Aged Christian Society 1826 " Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Victoria, S.W." " To grant pensions of 10s. to 15s. per month to Christian poor, of either sex (not having than 13s. weekly income) aged upwards of 60 years, and resident within five miles of St. Paul's." "£1,331" 136 pensioners London Almshouses 1832 " Ferndale Road, Brixton" " For householders who have been householders 7 years in the City of London, and over 60 years of age, and their wives - also for their widows and unmarried daughters over 55 years." Supported by the Corporation of London 60 London Biblewomen and Nurses Mission 1857 " Ranyard House, 25, Russell Sq., W.C." To supply Mission workers and District Nurses for the poor of London. "£18,924 Ordinary; Legacise, £3695 (for 1915)" London City Mission 1835 " 3, Bridewell Place, Blackfriars, E.C.* (*The Society has seaside Homes for its Missionaries at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, at Folkestone and at Worthing)" " To afford religious instruction to the inhabitants of London and its vicinity, especially to the poor, by means of lay missionaries." "£47,141, expenditure £46,830" "About 1,300,000 persons visited or conversed with by 343 missionaries" London Diocesan Church School Association 1839 " Church House, Dean's Yard, S.W." The maintenance of Church Schools - examination in religious knowledge of primary Church Schools and of their pupil teachers. "£1666, expenditure £1635" 537 school departments inspected [-158-] London Diocesan Church Building Society 1854 " 46A, Pall Mall, S.W." " Building and enlarging churches, endowment of church, purchasing sites, providing parsonage houses, etc." £57 1 grant of £20 London Diocesan Church Lads' Brigade Cadet Force 1891 " 7, John Street, Adelphi, W.C." " Is to unite the lads of the Diocese, to keep them in attachment to our Lord and His Church - and to promote habits of reverence, obedience, self-control, and all that will make them Christian men." £608 7000 cadets "London Diocesan Council for Preventive, Rescue, and Penitentiary Work" 1889 " 5A, Bourdon St., Berkeley Sq., W." " To unite under a Central Representative Authority Preventive, Rescue and Penitentiary work in London, to train workers, give advise, grants etc." "£30,539 for 1915, expenditure £31,523" 5076 London Diocesan Council for the Welfare of Lads 1884 " 7, John Street, Adelphi, W.C." " To promote the formation and development of, and to foster all movements for the welfare of boys." £673 London Diocesan Boy Scout Corp. 1909 Ditto To organise the Boy Scout movement on Church lines. Affiliated to the Boy Scouts Association. £305 4500 London Diocesan Home Mission 1857 " The Church House, Dean's Yard, S.W." " To supply missionary clergy in overgrown districts in the Diocese of London, with a view to the formation of new parishes." "£5017, expenditure £4949" Church accommodation in 23 districts about 9150 London Diocesan Penitentiary House of Mercy 1855 " House of Mercy, North Hill, Highgate, N." The rescue and restoration of fallen women. "£2756, expenditure £2747" 71 penitents London Diocesan Police Court Mission of the Church of England Temperance Society 1888 " St. Augustine House, 89, Southampton Row." " Rescue and preventive work in and out of the police courts, and the London diocese." "£10,873" About 7500 including children London Dispensary 1777 " 27, Fournier St., Spitalfields, E." To provide gratuitous medicine and medical attendance for the sick poor of the district. "£422 and Legacy, £250" 2308 London Domestic Mission Society 1835 " George's Row, City Rd. Rhyl Street, Kentish Town, and Bell Street, Edgware Rd." The improvement of the moral and religious character of the neglected poor and the amelioration of their condition. The Missions are conducted on purely unsectarian lines. "£1718, includign £250 Legacies" [-160-] London Female Guardian Society 1807 " 191, High St., Stoke Newington, N." " To provide an asylum for the rescue, reclamation, and protection of betrayed and fallen women, and to train them for domestic service. The inmates receive the benefits of the Charity for not less than eighteen months." £3592 including £317 industrial earnings 130 in two Homes; about 76 are constantly under training London Female Penitentiary 1807 Ditto " ""The London Female Penitentiary"" and ""The Guardian Society"" were united under the title of ""The London Female Guardian Society"" in 1891." "Included in the receipts of ""London Female Guardian Society""" "London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution (""Friendless and Fallen""), Jubilee Training Home and Night Refuge, and Midnight Meeting Movement" 1857 " Central Home, and Office, 200, Euston Road, N.W." " To afford shelter to friendless young women of good character, and to seek the reclamation of the fallen." "£8,830" "651, since established over 44,600" London Homoeopathic Hospital 1849 " Gt. Ormond St., W.C. Convalescent Home, 36, Enys Road, Eastbourne." " A general hospital for men, women and children. To afford homoeopathic treatment to sick poor." "Total ordinary, £12,178, expenditure £14,504 " "1504 In-patients, and 10,345 Out-patients" London Hospital 1740 " Whitechapel Rd., E." To cure and relieve the sick or injured poor. Maintains 922 beds. "Ordinary Income, £117,833" "In-patients, 18,933; Out-patients, 149,507" "London Hospital (""Marie Celeste"") Samaritan Society" 1791 " London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, E." " To assist London Hospital Patients to procure requisite surgical appliances, and to send convalescents to seaside or country, and provide necessitous mothers with milk, food, clothing etc." About £4889 About 8247 London Meat Trades and Drovers Benevolent Association 1844 " Cattle Market, Islington, N. Office, 2,3,4, Cheapside, E.C." To provide almshouses and other benefits for all classes connected with the meat or live cattle trade. "£2,470" 38 Pensioners London Missionary Society 1795 " Mission House, 16, New Bridge Street, E.C." To spread the knowledge of Christ among heathen and other unenlightened nations. "£225,288" "Has 298 missionaries, 870 native ordained ministers, and 1806 day schools" [-162-] "London Orphan School, Watford" 1813 " Watford, Herts. Office, 5, Crosby Sq., Bishopgate, E.C." " To maintain, clothe and educate fatherless boys and girls, respectably descended from all parts of the British Empire. Eligible children can be admitted on payment of a fixed sum, according to age, or by annual payment guaranteed by a public or corporate body." "£13,023, and legacies £613" 300 boys and 170 girls London over the Border Church Fund (late Bishop of St.Alban's Fund) 1878 " The Church-House, 88, Romford Rd., Stratford, E." " To relieve the spiritual wants of that portion of the extreme East of the Metropolis, known as ""London over the Border,"" which is in the diocese of Chelmsford, and for the district round Tilbury Docks." "£14,965, expenditure £15,785" 200 Living Agents (clerical and lay) supported "London Schools Dinner Association, incorporated with The Board School Children's Free Dinner Fund" 1889 " 32, John Street, Theobald's Rd., W.C." To generally benefit necessitous children. Included in Shaftesbury Society Ditto London Skin Hospital 1887 " 40, Fitzroy Sq., W." " The treatment of skin affections. Free to the necessitous, but others are expected to contribute according to their means." £250 and £880 by Patients "2216 new; Out-patients 14,157" London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews 1809 " 16, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C." " The oldest Church Society working amongst Jews, at home and abroad, and the pioneer of Industrial and Medical Missions." "£37,888 expenditure £38,608" Employed 226 missionary agents at 36 stations. "London Throat Hospital, amalgamated with the Throat Hospital, Golden Square" 1887 " 204, Gt. Portland Street, W., and 72, Bolsover St., W." " The treatment of diseases of the throat, nose and ear. Patients in employment are expected to make some contribution towards expense of medicine. Free to the necessitous." £1414 including patients' payments 406 In- and 2385 New Out-patients. Attendances 9475 "Lord's Day, Society for Promoting the Observance of the" 1831 " 18, Buckingham St., Strand, W.C." " To promote due observance of the Lord's Day, by means of books, public meetings, etc." "£1177, expenditure £1501" Incalculable Luther Memorial Home for Protestant Ladies of Slender Income 1883 " 120, Ledbury Rd., Bayswater, W." " To assist Protestant Ladies of Church of England in reduced circumstances, not having more than £60 per annum, and not being less than 50 years of age." £109 6 [-164-] Lying-In:- City of London Living-In Hospital " 1750, Rebuilt 1907" " City Road, corner of Old St." " The delivery of poor married women, both as In- and Out-patients - also for the training of midwives and monthly nurses." "£6,610" 110 women In-patients and 658 Out- were delivered Magdalen Hospital 1758 " Drewstead Road, Streatham, S.W." " To receive and maintain penitent fallen women gratis, and train them for domestic service." "£4876, expenditure £5414" 71 "Maida Hill Boy's Home, Young Men's Club, and Ragged School" 1846 " 95, North Street, Maida Hill, N.W." Working boys and Young Men's Club and Ragged School. "£230, expenditure £233" 357 Main Memorial Home (now called Home for Deserted Mothers) 1864 " 49, Cartwright Gardens, W.C." " To receive previously respectable women, members of a first illegitimate child, and to enable them to support themselves and their infants." "£559, expenditure £559" 72 mothers and children Mansion House Council of Health and Housing. Now the London Branch of the National League for Physical Education and Improvement. 1883 " 4, Tavistock Square, W.C." " Promotion of Sanitation among the dwellings of the working classes, to promote and assist Health Societies for the checking of tuberculous and infantile mortality, and to propagate general personal hygiene." £95 to Oct. 1915 Mansion House Funds -- " Mansion House, E.C." " Funds in aid of sufferers by great calamities, or for relief of widespread temporary distress, are generally promoted by the Lord Mayor, and subscriptions received at the Mansion House." "Red Cross Society, £63,000" Margaret Street Hospital for Consumption - (For Out-Patients) - Sanatoriums at Hastings (for Men) 1847 " 26, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square, W." The medical relief of poor persons suffering from consumption and diseases of the chest. "£4,554" 8873 Marine Society 1756 " Training-ship Warspite, off Greenhithe. Office, Clark's Place, Bishopsgate" " To train poor boys, of good character only, for the Royal Navy and Merchant Service. Also grants £10 gratuities annually to widows of naval captains, commanders, and lieutenants." "£12,667 (including legacies)" "449 boys; of these 109 were sent to Royal Navy, 106 to Merchant Service; 33 widows" [-166-] Marshall's Charity 1627 " 9, Newcomen St., Southwark, S.E." " For augmentation of poor livings, in conjunction with Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty Fund - and for assisting in the erection or endowment of new churches in the patronage of the Bishop - also for assisting in restoring old churches in the counties of Kent, Surrey, and Lincoln that are in the patronage of the Bishop. - also for assisting in restoring old churches in the counties of Kent, Surrey, and Lincoln that are in the patronage of the Bishop." About £9000 24 grants "Master Bakers' Pension and Almshouse Society, London" 1832 Almshouses at Lea Bridge Road " To provide homes and pensions in and out of doors for aged and decayed master bakers, or the widows of such." "£3759, expenditure £3198" 79 Out-door annuitants and 50 inmates of Almshouse "Maternity Charity and District Nurses' Home, The" 1889 " Howard's Road, Plaistow, E. Lansdowne Rd. Tidal Basin, E., Katherine Rd., Burges Rd., East Ham and Longbridge Rd., Barking" " 1. To provide for the poor of the neighbourhood, without distinction of creed, nursing in their own homes in maternity and other cases. 2. To train women of every social class in nursing, and to prepare them for the London Obstetrical Society's examination." No return made in 1916 "194 nurses trained; 14,634 cases attended" Maundy - His Majesty's Royal Maundy Gifts 1363 " Royal Almonry. Office: 7, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W." " To give, on the day before Good Friday in each year, to as many poor of each sex as are equal in number to the years of His Majesty's life, allowances in lieu of clothing and provisions, also silver pence, equal to the years of His Majesty's life." State Funds 900 "Maurice Girls' Home and Industrial School - Incorporated with Church of England Waifs and Strays* (*This Home was taken over by the Waifs and Strays Society in May, 1913)" 1867 " 7, Mattock Lane, Ealing, W." " To lodge, clothe, and educate destitute girls not convicted of crime." See Waifs and Strays Society 28 annually Medical Aid Society for Necessitous Gentlewomen 1879 " 7, St. Katherine's Precincts, Gloucester Gate, N.W." To provide gratuitous medical aid and medicines to ladies in reduced circumstances. "£479, expenditure £417" 70 [-168-] Medical - (Royal) Medical Benevolent Fund. see Widows and Orphans of Medical Men 1836 " 11, Chandos St., W." " To relieve, by immediate grants and by annuities, poor medical men, their widows and orphans. The R.N.B. Guild is the Ladies Branch of the Fund. Hon. Sec., 100, Harley Street, W." £1747 subscriptions and donations £450 legacies and £7700 dividends "260 grants, 149 annuitants" "Medical Missionary Association, London" 1878 " 49, Highbury Park, N." " To train and support Medical Missionary Students, and to promote Medical Missions at Home and Abroad." "£1,629" 15 students. 1 medical mission in London benefited over 4000 patients Medical - London Medical Mission 1871 " Short's Gardens, Endell Street, St. Giles's and Branch at 123, Lambeth Walk." " To provide medical and surgical aid for the sick poor, and to carry the Gospel tidings into the Homes. Has a Home for convalescents at Folkestone and a Holiday House for children, at Brasted Chart, Kent." "£1424, expenditure £2760" "26,248 cases at Dispensary; 11,538 visits; 185 admitted to Cons. Home, and 164 to Holiday House." "Mendicity, London" 1818 " 9, Red Lion Sq., W.C." 1. Apprehending Street Impostors. 2. Investigating Begging Letters. 3. Distributing Food Tickets. 4. Rescuing Begging Children. "£835, expenditure £1098" 950 Food tickets £212 distributed 791 begging letters investigated Mental (The) Aftercare Association for Poor Persons Convalescent or Recovered from Institutions for the Insane. 1879 " Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W." To assist in various ways recovered cases on leaving Asylums for the Insane. "£1137, expenditure £940" 379 before Council Mercers' Company's Charities:- -- " Mercers' Hall, Ironmonger Lane, E.C." " As the Mercers' Co. supply no information, the following particulars are subject to revision." "Apprentices, Several Gifts for Binding" -- Ditto " To apprentice lads, preferentially from the counties of Wilts and Gloucester, to different trades by paying for them their apprentice fees." Banck's Charity 1619 Ditto " For loans to 2 poor young men of Mercers' Company, and other purposes." £100 Barrett's Ditto 1584 Ditto " One exhibition, for a poor scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, of £20." £25 [-170-] Bennett's Charities 1616 " Mercers' Hall, Ironmonger Lane, E.C." " To aid poor and aged of Wallingford, 4 of Mercers' Company, 12 poor debtors in London prisons, and for vagrant poor etc." "£98, free of expenses of distributing" Over 30 Chertsey's Ditto. 1555 Ditto For three poor freemen of Company. "Debtors', Poor, Ditto" -- Ditto To relieve poor debtors. Fishborne's Charity and Grammar School 1625 Ditto " To pay for sermons, to lend sums to young men, to clothe poor, and to maintain Grammar School at Huntingdon." Gresham College Lectures and Almshouses 1575 Ditto " Four lectures, for 8 almshouses, £50 a year for relief of poor prisoners, and £20 to each of 5 hospitals." Horsham Free School 1532 Ditto " To educate 80 poor boys of Horsham, Sussex." £540 80 Loans to Young Men -- Ditto To assist young men of Mercers' Company in commencing business. (There are several charities for this purpose.) Mercers' Grammar School 1542 " Barnard's Inn, Holborn, E.C." " To provide free instruction, ultimately for 300 boys. The present school was opened in 1894." Mico's (Lady) Almshouses. 1670 Stepney Churchyard " For 9 widows of freemen of the City, over 50 years, each of whom receives £30 per annum." 9 Morley's Charity -- Mercers' Hall To support 4 poor persons. 4 North's (Lady) Charity 1574 Ditto " Four exhibitions of £25 each to University, tenable for 5 years either at Oxford or Cambridge." £100 4 Robinson's Charity 1618 " Mercers' Hall, Ironmonger Lane, E.C." Four exhibitions of £40 each to University. £160 4 "St. Paul's School* (*This school, founded AD 1509, by John Colet, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, is now governed under the provisions of a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners, dated June 16th, 1879. It has several Exhibitions and Scholarships tenable at the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge - also several School Prizes)" 1509 " Hammersmith Rd., West Kensington (Removed in 1884 from St. Paul's Churchyard)" " To educate 153 Foundation Scholars, elected by open competition, and a variable number of Capitation Scholars who pay a Tuition Fee of £24 9s. a year. Foundation Scholars are exempt from the Tuition and Entrance Fees. Capitation Scholars have to pay an Entrance Fee of £1." [-172-] "Trinity Hospital, or Norfolk College" 1613 Greenwich " To support a warden and 70 pensioners of Greenwich and of Shottesham, Norfolk." 71 Walthall's Charity -- Mercers' Hall Three poor scholars of Cambridge £14 each to assist them in taking their M.A. degree. £42 3 Whittington's College Almshouses 1421 Highgate To receive and support in- and out-pensioners appointed by Mercers' Company. Inmates receive £30 per annum. "£5,000" Merchant Taylors' Company's Charities:- 1267 " Hall, 30, Threadneedle St., E.C." Merchant Taylors' Almshouses 1593 " Lee, Kent. (Removed to Lee in 1825)" " To support 30 poor widows of deceased members of the Company over 54 years of age, and two widows of the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate." 32 Merchant Taylors' School 1561 " Charterhouse Sq., E.C. (Removed to this site in 1875)" " To educate boys nominated by members of the Court of Merchant Taylors' Company, on payment of 12 or 15 gs. per annum. Has numerous exhibitions and scholarships to the Universities, varying in value from £10 to £100 per annum each." Supported by Merchant Taylors' Company. No accounts published 448 "Metal Trades' Pension Society, The Royal" 1843 " 195, Upper Thames Street, E.C." " For granting pensions not exceeding 25 guineas each to deserving and necessitous members of these trades, and their widows - also temporary relief from a fund designated the Ball Fund." "£5,432" 279 Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants 1874 " Central Office, Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Victoria, 29 branches" " To provide friendly guidance for young servants, girls leaving Poor Law Schools, and other needing help, and watch over them during changes of situation." "£7,585" 8408 Metropolitan Benefit Societies Asylum 1829 " Balls Pond Road, Islington, N. Office, 25, Forburg Rd., Stoke Newington." " For the reception and partial maintenance of aged persons of both sexes, members of Metropolitan Friendly or Benefit Societies, within 20 miles of St. Paul's." "£676; to Endowment Fund, £59; expenditure £741" 55 [-174-] Metropolitan Convalescent Institution 1840 " Adults, Walton-on-Thames. Children, Broadstairs. Seaside Branches for Adults, Bexhill and Littlecommon. Offices, 14, Victoria Street, S.W." " To receive free of charge poor convalescent patients from the various London hospitals, dispensaries, and from their own unhealthy and ill-provided homes." "£14,541, expenditure £14,861" 7315 "Metropolitan Dispensary, Cripplegate's" 1779 " 9, Fore Street, Cripplegate" To give medicine and attendance to the poor. "£630, expenditure £771" 7385 patients were treated Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association 1859 " 70, Victoria St., Westminster, S.W." The erection and maintenance of street drinking-fountains and cattle-troughs. "£2363 and legacies £492, expenditure £1788" "More than 913,000,000 drinkers at 706 troughs and 1118 fountains" Metropolitan Hospital 1836 " Kingsland Road, N.E. Has a Convalescent home at Cranbrook, Kent." The immediate relief of the sick poor of every nation without the delay of any letter of recommendation. Entirely free to the sick and necessitous poor. Unendowed and supported by voluntary contributions. The training of nurses. "£16,697 (including £280 from legacies)" "1979 In-patients and 130,680 attendances of Out-patients" Metropolitan Prisoners' Aid Society " 1864, Incor. 1906" " 44, Burton Street, W.C." " To assist prisoners and their families, especially male prisoners discharged from Pentonville." "£1139, expenditure £959" 2202 cases dealt with Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage 1870 " Wellesley House, Twickenham, S.W." " To receive, educate and assist the destitute orphan children of the Metropolitan and City of London Police forces." "£18,938" "250 children in Orphanage, and about 800 others received £12 per annum" Metropolitan Public Gardens Association 1882 " 83, Lancaster Gate, W." " To acquire and lay out open spaces, public gardens, children's playgrounds, to establish gymnasia, window gardens, and swimming-baths, in poor districts of London and its suburbs. *This Association, since October, 1882, has opened over 118 gardens and playgrounds for public recreation, and promoted schemes for the acquisition of a far larger number, securing the funds required from public bodies and private subscriptions - found employment for many hundred men, planted trees and placed several thousand seats in the thoroughfares and public spaces, encouraged the provision of outside window gardens and contributed towards many other improvements conducing to the health and enjoyment of the industrial classes and the poor of the metropolis." "£1557 in 1915, expenditure £1620, £690 liabilities incurred" "This association, since October, 1882, has opened over 118 gardens and playgrounds for public recreation and promoted schemes for the acquisition of a far larger number, securing the funds required from public bodies and private subscriptions; founded employment for many hundred men, planted trees and placed several thousand seats in the thoroughfares and public spaces, encourage the provison of outside window gardens and contributed towards many other improvements conducing to the health and enjoyment of the Industrial classes and the poor of the metropolis." [-176-] Metropolitan Tabernacle Almshouses 1832 " Elephant Road, Walworth, S.E." " Homes for 17 aged females, members of the Church worshipping at the Tabernacle, Newington." £345 17 Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association 1843 " 46A, Pall Mall, S.W." " For visiting, relieving, and improving the poor of the Metropolis, irrespective of creed, by unpaid visitors, under the direction of the Bishops and Clergy." "£1056, Donations and Subscriptions" 2025 in Grants to District Visiting Societies of the metropolis "Mico Charity, Lady" 1835 " 1, Broad Street Place, E.C." To educate the coloured population of the British Colonies. £2442 all from investments 76 students trained at the College in Jamaica "Middlesex Hospital (The). Convalescent Home, Clacton-on-Sea" " 1745. Incor. 1836, Enlarged 1848" " Mortimer Street, Berners Street, W. Trained Nurses' Institution, 17, Cleveland Street, W." " To receive and treat the sick and injured poor. The Hospital contains 350 Beds, in addition to which there is a wing for incurable Male and Female Cancer patients, containing 90 beds." "£27,337 and £16,270 legacies" "5410 In- and 42,571 Out-patients; Convalescent Home, 2201" Midnight Meeting Movement 1859 " 200, Euston Rd., N.W." " To Mission the streets at night, and hold midnight and other meetings of young women and girls (both in London and the Provinces) with a view to their reclamation." Included in London Female Preventive Institution "Over 126,500 have attended 2481 meetings since beginning" Mildmay Foundations 1869 " Office, Conference Hall, Mildmay Park, N." Comprise Conference Hall - Deaconess' House and Parochial Missions - 2 Hospitals - Medical Mission - Training Home for Foreign Missions - Nurses' House - Creche - Refuge. "£15,947, expenditure £18,264" Not ascertainable Mildmay Mission to the Jews 1876 " Central Hall, Philpot Street, E." " Mission work to the Jews in Great Britain and abroad, the distribution of Hebrew New Testaments throughout the world - Home for poor Jewish Children. Has a Convalescent Home for poor Jewish patients. Has 19 missionaries in Russia." "£9430, expenditure £9886" "Upwards of 30,000" [-178-] "Miller General Hospital (The), for South East London (with which is incorporated the Royal Kent Dispensary)" 1783 Greenwich Road To treat the sick poor. "£10,542, expenditure £8337" "916 In-patients, anmd 21,740 Out-patients" "Milliners' and Dressmakers' Provident, etc., Institution" 1849 " 65, Great Portland Street, W." " To aid milliners and dressmakers, who are members of the Society, in sickness or necessity, and by permanent relief in old age." "£286, expenditure £538" 30 Ministers' Friend or Associate Fund 1823 " Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., E.C." To help Congregational ministers having small salaries. About £1400 116 Missionary Leaves Association 1870 " 20, Compton Ter., Upper Street, Islington, N." To asssist the Native Clergy and Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society. "£5,463" Model Soup Kitchen 1846 " 357, Euston Rd. and 44, Warren St., N.W." " To feed the poor during the winter months, special attention being paid to homeless children." £500 "240,684" Monoux Almshouses 1527 " 195, Hoe St., Walthamstow" Homes for 9 poor men and 4 women. 9 men and 4 women Monoux (Sir George) Grammar School " 1527, recon. 1884" " High Street, Walthamstow. Office, 44, Grosvenor Park Rd." " Middle Class Education. Has 30 free scholarships, 25 of which are confined to candidates from public Elementary Schools." "£2245, expenditure £2183" 185 pupils Moravian Missions 1732 " 32, Fetter Lane, E.C." " To spread the knowledge of the Gospel in foreign lands, especially countries not sufficiently administered by other Missions." "£111,205 (including receipts from all sources), expenditure £114,364" "Has 349 Stations, 478 Missionaries and 108,379 members" "Moravian Missions, London Association in Aid of" 1817 " 7, New Court, Lincoln's Inn, W.C." To aid the Moravian Mission funds. "£11,481" [-180-] Modern College 1695 " Blackheath, Kent" " Provides home and £110 a year for decayed merchants over 50 years old, single men or widowers, members of the Church of England. 125 out-pensions of £80 a year, and under, and 10 pensions of £30 a year for widows of decayed merchants." "£17,000" "41 inmates, 125 out-pensioners and 10 widows" "Motherless Children, Homes for" 1896 " Girls' - The Roystons, Grove Park, Chiswick, W. Boys - Victoria Lodge, Hounslow and ""Lyndhurst"", 34, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell and ""The Ferns"", Warwick Road, Ealing." " For reception of motherless children from 2 years of age and upwards, on payment of about 5s. 6d. weekly." £737 contributions; £1899 from fathers and relations 150 inmates "Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, The" 1860 " Northwood, Middlesex. Outpatients' Department and Office, 7, Fitzroy Sq., W." " The treatment of all kind of chest diseases. Cases of tuberculosis of the joints, etc., also received." "£11,408 (including legacies), expenditure £11,357" 498 In- and 2159 Out-patients National Association for the Employment of Ex-Soldiers 1885 " 119, Victoria St., S.W. Has 111 Branches in United Kingdom and South Africa." To obtain employment for Reserve and time-expired Soldiers of good character only. "£1920, Expenditure, £1054" "Permanent employment found for over 2128, temporary for over 763" National Association for Promoting the Welfare of the Feeble-Minded 1895 " Princess Christian's Farm Colony, Hildenborough, Kent. Denison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W." " To ensure voluntary aid and personal service for the feeble-minded. 3 Homes for boys, and 2 Homes for girls and women, and 25 affiliated Homes. Provision also made for cases of the better social class in reduced circumstances." "£9341, expenditure £9129, donations to Building Fund, £180" 2749 cases in Homes and Colonies National Benevolent Institution 1812 " 65, Southampton Row, Bloomsbury Sq., W.C." For granting pensions of £20 to £40 per annum to distressed members of the upper and middle classes of society who have attained 60 years. "£16,739 ordinary and £2805 legacies and spec. donations" 650 annuitantsand 47 by gratuities [-182-] National Book Trade Provident Society 1902 " 133-136, Moorgate Station Chambers, London, E.C." " For the relief of members, their widows and children." £727 National Canine Defence League 1891 " 27, Regent St., London, S.W." To protect dogs from cruelty and ill-usage of every kind. "£3,200" National Children's Home and Orphanage 1869 " Bonner Rd., N.E. Edgworth, nr. Bolton, Lancs. Farnborough, Hants. Ramsey, I. of M. New Oscott, nr. Birmingham. Alverstoke, Hants. Chipping Norton, Oxon. Frodsham, Harpenden, Herts. Bramhope (Yorks.). Cardiff, Oxted (Sur.), & Hamilton, Canada" " To rescue and train orphans and other children who are in poverty or moral peril, and to place them out in life after suitable training. Special provision for cripples and early cases of consumption." "£78,304 ordinary and £12,867 special" 3558 "National Church League (including Church of England League, and Nat. Prot. Ch. Union)" 1835 " 82, Victoria St., S.W." " To educate the people in the principles and history of the Reformation, and maintain purity of Faith in the Church of England." "£6,000" National Dental Hospital. Dental department of the University College Hospital. 1861 " Great Portland St., W." For the gratuitous relief of the poor suffering from diseases and irregularities of the teeth and deformities of the mouth. "£1789, expenditure £2120" "22,087" National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic (Albany Memorial). - (Incorporated by Royal Charter) 1859 " Queen Square, Bloomsbury, W.C. Convalescent Home, East Finchley, N." " To afford medical and surgical relief to In- and Out-patients afflicted with paralysis, epilepsy, and kindred nervous diseases. There is also a Pension Fund." "£24,373 Hospital, expenditure £24,573" "1064 In-patients, and 1467 Out-patients; 93 pensions of £10 to £14" National Industrial Home for Crippled Boys 1865 " Woolsthorpe House, Wright's Lane, High St., Kensington, W." " To feed, clothe, educate, and teach trades to crippled boys from all parts of the kingdom, between the ages of 13½ and 17 years on admission.* (*Addition of Shoemaking branch of industry, especially for Surgical boots.)" "£3275, expenditure £4371" 100 [-184-] National Orphan Home. 1849 " Ham Common, Surrey. Office at Orphanage, Ham Common." " To maintain, clothe, and educate girls from the age of 7, of poor respectable parents, for domestic service, to procure situations and provide outfits for them, and to watch over them after leaving the Home." "£1575, including legacies" 43 girls National Protestant League 1890 " 13 and 14, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C." " To maintain unimpaired the ""Protestant Reformed Religion established by law.""" £224 "National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children (Incorporated, 1904)" 1843 " London : Headquarters, 164 Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C." " To receive destitute children and train them for service at home or in the Colonies. The age of admission to the Homes is from 5 to12 years of age, to the ships, 13½ to 15½." "£36,758, expenditure £36,342" 1461 National Society 1811 " 19-21, Great Peter Street, Westminster, S.W." " To build schools, train teachers, make grants for fittings and books, and to promote church education." "£18,893" "paid in 1915, £10,216" 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." "£66,230, expenditure £65,531" "138,969 children. Since the formation of the Society to March 1916, 2,542,286" National Society for the Protection of Young Girls (Princess Louise Home). (Incorporated) 1835 " Kingston Hill, Surrey (formerly at Wanstead). Office, 1, Victoria St., S.W." " To save girls and children under 15 years old, unduly subjected to corrupting influences, to maintain and educate them for domestic service, procure situations and provide outfits for them, and to watch over them in first situations. No votes required." "£3936 (including £831 for Laundry work), and Legacy £1000" 182 (since established has admitted 2390) National Temperance League 1856 " 34, Paternoster Row, E.C." To promote temperance by the practice of abstinence from intoxicating beverages. "£1,260" National Truss Society 1786 " 2, Arthur Street, London Bridge, E.C." " To provide the poor with trusses for every kind of rupture, and other surgical appliances." "£1,219" 2650 National Vigilance Association 1885 " 2, Grosvenor Mansions, 76, Victoria St., S.W." " To enforce and improve the laws for the repression of criminal vice and public immorality, and to check the causes of vice, and to protect minors." "£4,654" [-186-] Native Races and the Liquor Traffic United Committee 1887 " 177-8, Palace Chambers, 9, Bridge Street, Westminster, S.W." The Prevention of the Demoralization of Native Races by the Liquor Traffic. £622 Navvy Mission Society 1877 " The Church House, Westminster, S.W." " The spiritual and moral welfare of men engaged on public works. Missionaries with men on war work at home, also at the Front with Labour Battalions (R.E.)." "General Fund £7081, War Fund £544, Canada Fund £870" Nazareth House 1851 Hammersmith and numerous branches in the Provinces " For care of poor of both sexes and orphan and incurable children, given a permanent home, and educated and fitted for after life." Entirely dependent on voluntary offerings Impossible to state Netherland Benevolent Society 1875 " 14, South Street, Finsbury Pavement, E.C." " To relieve (mainly by way of loans), Hollanders in London who are in temporary want or distress, and small weekly pensions to aged Dutch people." "£1118, expenditure £1264" "408, including 84 pensioners" New Church Orphanage 1881 " 1, Bloomsbury St., W.C." " To afford maintenance, clothing and education (including instruction in the doctrines of the New Church) to children who have lost both parents or their father only." "£626, expenditure £771" 32 "New College (formed by the junction of Coward and Homerton with Highbury College)* (New College was established under that name in 1850, but the oldest of the foundations combined with it goes back to 1696, and it has on endowment dating from 1673." 1850 " South Hampstead, N.W." To train students for the Congregational ministry. Has several exhibitions and scholarships. "£4354, expenditure £4324" 39 Newcomen's Foundation 1674 " Newcomen St., St. Saviour's, Southwark." " Trade school for Girls under new scheme from Board of Education, dated June 24, 1912." £1200 from endowment 80 New England Company 1649. Incor. 1662 " 26, Bloomsbury Sq., W.C." To Christianise the Indian natives of British North America. "About £4000, derived entirely from endowments" About 2000 Newport Market Army Training School 1863 " 28-30, Greencoat Place (name of street changed), Westminster, S.W." " Eighty-six destitute boys are boarded, lodged, clothed, and trained for Army Band Boys." "£1433, expenditure £2065" 25 boys were placed during 1915; 86 boys in School [-188-] Newspaper Press Fund 1865. Incor. 1890 " 11, Garrick St., Covent Garden, W.C. Telephone: 7288, Gerrard." " The relief in want or distress of paid contributers to the press of the United Kingdom (being members of the Fund), and their families. Also assistance to the widows, children or other near relatives of deceased members." "£7533, expenditure £7141" 7062 given to 342 persons Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution 1839 " Memorial Hall Buildings, 16, Farringdon Street, E.C." " To grant pensions and temporary assistance to vendors of newspapers and their assistants, with priority to those who have been subscribing members of the Society." "£2184, expenditure £2350" 153 Night Refuge (Open all night) 1872 " 2, Liverpool Street, King's Cross, W.C. Office, 200, Euston Road, N.W." " For the immediate succour of young women and girls found destitute in the streets at night - (Connected with the London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution, which see.)" Included in London Female Preventive Institution 460 North-West London Hospital (amalgamated with the Hampstead General Hospital since 1907) 1878 " Bayham Street, Camden Town, N.W." " To relieve the sick poor of the neighbourhood. Amalgamated with the Hampstead General Hospital since 1907. The In-patients are received at Hampstead. The Out-patients for both Hospitals are treated at Bayham Street, in the new buildings opened 1912." See Hampstead General Hospital See Hampstead General Hospital Norwood Cottage Hospital. 1882 " Hermitage Road, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, S.E." The treatment of the sick poor of Norwood and the surrounding suburban districts. In-patients only. £2564; Legacies £520; expenditure £2215 703 In-patients Nurses - Metropolitan Association for Providing Trained Nurses for the Sick Poor 1874 " Central Home and Office:- 23, Bloomsbury Square, W.C." To train and provide skilled Nurses for the sick poor at their own homes. The Nurses live together at a Home with a trained superintendent. "£1,176" 1291 patients [-190-] Nurses - Nightingale Fund for Training Nurses for the Sick Poor 1855 " No Office. Address of Sec. 4, Regent St., S.W." " To train Nurses for Hospital, Infirmary and District work among the poor." "Income from endowment, £1486, payments by Probationers, £1153" 55 completed a year's probationary training *(These were taken on the extra Staff of St. Thomas's Hospital) Nurses - Queen Charlotte's Lying-In Hospital Midwifery Training School 1874 " Marylebone Road, N.W." " To afford medical pupils facilities for studyign practical midwifery, and to train and provide midwives for the poor and monthly nurses for private families." "£6872, expenditure £7211" "55 medical pupils, 135 midwives and 39 nurses were trained" Nurses (Ranyard) 1868 " Ranyard House, 25, Russell Sq., W.C." For supplying fully-trained hospital nurses for district work in London. "£8,423" "12,121" Nurses - Trained Nurses Annuity Fund (for Disabled Nurses) 1874 " Hon. Secretary's address, 73, Cheapside, E.C." " To grant annuities to worn-out Trained Hospital Nurses, of at least 10 years service." "About £1070 in 1915, expenditure £566" 34 annuitants in 1915 Nurses - Westminster Training School and Home for (Founded by Lady Augusta Stanley) 1874 " 27, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, and Westminster Hospital, S.W." To train and to supply competent nurses for Westminster Hospital and for private nursing and Institutions. Also to provide a comfortable home for such nurses. Nursing (Workhouse Nursing Association) 1879 reorganized 1913 " 116, Rusthall Avenue, Bedford Park, London, W." To raise the standard of public opinion on the question of workhouse nursing. Not stated Nursing North London Nursing Association 1877 " 413, Holloway Road, N." " To provide, gratuitously, trained nurses for the sick poor at their own homes in North London." "£1151, expenditure £1161" "2074; 38,567 visits" Nursing Sisters' Institution (Founded by Mrs. Fry) 1840 " 4, Devonshire Sq., Bishopsgate, E." " To provide Nurses for private families, and to staff 90-100 pensions for aged nurses belonging to Institution." All donations are funded 70 pensioners; 100 nurses etc. [-192-] "Nursing Society, East London" 1868 " Camperdown House, Half Moon Passage, Aldgate, S.E." To provide trained nurses for the sick poor of East London in their own homes. Only 2 Homes for Nurses. "£2,808" "Persons nursed , 4159; visits 87,015" Nursing - South London District Nursing Association 1884 " S.L.D. Nursing Association, 109, North Side, Clapham, S.W." To train and provide a body of skilled nurses to nurse the sick poor in their own homes. About £1200 "3151 cases; visits, 43,405; Out-patients, 26,100" Open-air Mission 1853 " 19, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C." " To improve and extend Evangelical open-air preaching. The visitation of military camps and garrisons of British troops at home, and of French troops at the seat of war, and to concentration camps of German prisoners of war (military and civilian), races, fairs, fetes, etc." "£10,339 including blanace, £593 from previous year" "visited 384 races, fairs, etc.; held 10,487 special services and distributed 1,234,859 tracts etc" Operative Jewish Converts' Institution 1829 " Palestine House, Bodney Road, Hackney, N.E." " To provide a home and religious instruction for outcast Jewish converts, and teach them printing and book-binding, for three years." £718 8 Ophthalmic - Central London Ophthalmic Hospital 1843 " Judd Street, St. Pancras, W.C." To afford medical advice and assistance to the necessitous poor suffering from diseases or injuries of the eye. "£3261, expenditure £2684" "355 In-patients, and 11,105 Out-patients" Organ Builders' Benevolent Institution 1842 " 25, William St., Hampstead Rd., N.W." To award annuities to poor aged or infirm members. About £126 5 Orphan Home for Little Girls 1885 " Burgos House, Lebanon Road, East Croydon." " To maintain orphan little girls, and train them for domestic service on small weekly payments (3s. 6d. to 5s.)" £325 "20, and 5 fresh admissions" Orphan Working School and Alexandra Orphanage 1758 " Haverstock Hill, N.W. : Convalescent Home, Harold Road, Margate. OfficeS:- 73, Cheapside, E.C." " For orphan and other necessitous children, admitted between infancy and 11 years of age. Children remain until about 15 years of age. Upwards of 6000 children have been benefited." £9418 including £2267 from Legacies 394 [-194-] "Orphanage, The Girls' (Affiliated to Church of England Society for Waifs and Strays)" 1864 " Elm Grove, Wimbledon, S.W." " To educate and train orphan or deserted girls, between the ages of 7 and 16, for domestic service." £396 27 Orphanage of the Infant Saviour 1865 " 27, Barry Road, East Dulwich, S.E. and the Orphanage Rest, Farnham Royal, Slough." " To educate and train orphan girls, admitted between the ages of 2 and 7, for domestic service." "£544, expenditure £561" About 24 in the House Orphan's Homes 1867 " Austral St., and 21, West Square, Southwark. Also at Stockwell, Gravesend, Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, and St. Leonards." " To receive destitute female orphans, without election, to train them for service, and provide them with situations, also to train some for Teachers, Nurses, etc." "£5697, expenditure £5396" 300 "Orphans in Private Families, Association for placing" 1877 " At. Mr. Senior's, Branksome, Saffrons Road, Eastbourne" " To provide orphans who have lost both parents with a home, country life, and parental care, upon payment of £13 yearly." "£75, expenditure £50" 4 Our Dumb Friends League (A Society for the Encouragement of Kindness to Animals) 1897 " 58, Victoria St., London, S.W." To encourage kindness to an animals. "From all sources, £12,190" "50,546 animals" "Paddington Charities* (*These Charities, in addition to the special ones named, provide coals and blankets for distribution amongst poor parishioners, and sums of money to be given to the various National Schools in the Borough.):-" Apprenticing Funds -- " Town Hall, Harrow Road, Paddington" To provide apprentice fees for the sons or daughters of parishioners who have not received parochial relief. £1146 from Freehold and £650 from Copyhold. 1 Almshouse Ground Charity -- Ditto " Pensions for poor parishioners, of 4s. and 6s. per week." £190 9 pensioners Marion Mayne's Charity -- Ditto "Pensions for poor parishioners, of 4s. and 6s. per week." £161 10 pensioners Smith's Bequest -- Ditto " Pensions for poor parishioners (females), from £10 to £20 per annum." £249 10 pensioners Paddington Provident Dispensary 1838 " 104, Star Street, Edgware Rd., W." " To provide medical aid for poor, upon payment of 2d. or 4½d. a week, according to number of family." "£285, including £163 from members, expenditure £285" Has 259 members [-196-] "Painters' Company's Charities* (*The Company, on account of John Stock's bequest to Poor Curates, pay over annually £105 to the CORPORATION OF THE SONS OF THE CLERGY, who elect the pensioners and distribute the amount, and retain the remaining £5 for their clerk)" Incor. 1457 Fairchild's Legacy and Poor Box Money -- " Painters' Hall, 9, Little Trinity Lane, E.C." " To widows of poor of the Company, £3 or upwards." £49 9 Stock's and other Charities to the Blind -- As above £10 each annually to respectable blind poor. "£1,740" 174 Stock's Charity to Poor Liverymen of the Company -- As above £10 each annually to two decayed liverymen over 50 years. £20 2 Stock's Charity to Poor Lame Painters of the Company -- As above £10 annually to ten poor painters of the Company. £100 10 Parish Clerks' Widows' Almshouse Institution 1829 " Denmark Road, Camberwell, S.E. Office, 24 Silver St., E.C." " For the widows and daughters of parish clerks, who were members and subscribers of the Institution." Not stated. Private Institutions 8 Parochial Mission Women Fund 1860 " Church House, Westminster" The employment under the parochial clergy of poor women in missionary work among the poor. "£2466, expenditure £2641" 72 districts in which 73 mission women were employed Parochial Missions to the Jews at Home and Abroad 1876 " 14, Great Smith Street, Westminster" " To bring the Parochial Ministration of the Church to bear upon the thousands of Jews resident in our large towns, especially in the Metropolis." "£564, expenditure £528" 11 workers Patriotic: Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation 1854 " 17, Waterloo Place, S.W." " To assist the widows, orphans, etc., of Officers and men of H.M. Naval and Military Forces who died by wounds or disease contracted in war, and to provide maintenance and education for sailors' and soldiers' daughters." "£40,288 expenditure £60,472" "Widows, 2879; Orphans 2862; other dependents, 259" "Patriotic Russian War Fund, Royal" 1854 " 17, Waterloo Place, S.W." " To assist the widows and orphans of those who died in or by wounds or disease contracted in the war with Russia, 1854-56." "£1030, expenditure £4235" 115 widows and 9 orphans and other dependants [-198-] Peabody Donation Fund 1862 " Office, 15, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C." " To ameliorate the condition of the London poor with special reference to the improvement of their dwellings. The sum given by Mr. Peabody was in all £500,000. This amount has been increased by other donations, and at the end of 1914, by rents and interest, the Fund had augmented to £1,880,624." "Gross, £91,898; nett. £45,590" "6438 tenements, paying each 2s. 3d. To 8s. 9d. Per week for block rents and rates, and 7s. 11d. To 10s. 4d. For cottages, 22,290 persons, were in residence in the buildings" "Peace, Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal" 1816 " Office, 47, New Broad Street, E.C." To inculcate that war is inconsistent with the spirit of Christianity. "£2,100" Peckham Nursing Association (Founded by Mrs. Chas. Ward.) 1900 " 91, The Rye, Peckham, S.E." To render professional Nursing Aid free to the afflicted poor in their homes - to attend cases of sickness and operations among the middle classes. "£179, expenditure £218 " "15,705 visits paid to patients" Pearson's Fresh Air Fund 1892 " 23, St. Bride's St., London, E.C." " To provide day outings and fortnightly holidays for poor children. All money received in subscriptions is spent on the children, the promoters bearing all management expenses." "Receipts £9412, expenditure £7710" "111,255 days, 3320 fortnights" People's Entertainment Society 1879 " See Treasurer's address [-27, De Vere Gardens, Kensington, W., ed.-]" " To provide rational amusement for the people, in the hope of withdrawing them from low places of resort." About £550 Pharmaceutical Society's Benevolent Fund 1841 " 17, Bloomsbury Square, W.C." " Pensions or casual relief to distressed chemists and druggists, or to their widows and orphan children." "£3252, including Donations and Legacies" "26 annuitants at £50, 2 at £40 each and 110 others" Philanthropic Society 1788 " Farm School at Redhill, Surrey" " Reformation of juvenile offenders (boys) by means of religious and other instruction, and by teaching them to earn their own living." "£9167, of which £627 from subs and dons. Expenditure £9017" 260 boys detained on average [-200-] Philanthropic Work of the London Congregational Union 1883 " Memorial Hall, Farringdon St., E.C." " To raise and distribute a Fund for philanthropic work, and in other ways to help the sick and destitute poor." "£4,898" "Over 213,000" "Pimlico Road Dispensary, Free" 1869 " 20, Pimlico Road, S.W." " To provide advice, home attendance, medicine, and, where funds admit, in urgent cases, invalid nourishment for the sick poor." £197 1110 Police Courts Poor Box -- At the several Metropolitan Police Courts " To relief poor persons who come to these Courts for assistance, if found deserving." Annually (dependent on the donations of the benevolent) about £6000 Poor Clergy Relief Corporation 1856 " 38, Tavistock Place, Tavistock Square, W.C." " The immediate relief of the poor clergy of England, Wales, Ireland, and the Colonies, their widows and orphans, in sickness or other temporary distress." "£25,568" 1512 Poor Silversmiths. - Wm. Nicholson's Charity for 1888 " 30, Theobald's Rd., Gray's Inn Rd., W.C." " To aid poor silversmiths, their widows and orphans." £420 (endowment) 73 Poplar Hospital for Accidents (Convalescent Home at Walton-on-the-Naze) 1855 " 303-315, East India Dock Rd., Poplar, E." " The treatment of accidental injuries etc. The Hospital contains 69 Surgical, 27 Medical, 1 Paying Patient Bed, and 6 Isolation Beds in separate block. 24 beds allotted to wounded soldiers. A new Laundry and Boiler House have been built, and Electric Lift installed." "£19,858, including legacise; expenditure £10,853" "1640 In- and 41,042 Out-patients" Poplar Rescue and Maternity Work 1878 " Manor Cottage, 31, Sturry St., Poplar, E." " To assist young women of previous good character to a new start in life, especially those who, not necessarily depraved, are about to become mothers for the first time. These are confined at the Home and then helped into a position to support their little ones." Private funds [-202-] Porter's Almshouses 1826 " Nightingale Rd., Wood Green, N." " Home for 8 poor women of Shoreditch parish, and 7s. each per week." Income £104 8 Porter's : London General Porters' Benevolent Association 1858 " 106, Cheapside, E.C." To grant annuities of 6s. to 10s. per week to members and their widows and orphans. "£4,993" 266 pensioners Post Office Clerks' Benevolent Fund 1853 " General Post Office, E.C." " To assist the widows, children, and other relatives of deceased clerks of General Post Office." £740 27 Post Office Sorters' and Postmen's Orphan Homes Institution 1870 As above " To provide homes on ""boarding out"" system for the orphans of Post Office employés." "£5,600" 148 Presbyterian Church of England Theological College 1844 " Westminster College, Cambridge." To train for the Ministry of the Presbyterian Church of England. £4984 (including fees) 14 (students) Presbyterians (*The figures here given do not fully represent the number benefited):- Continental and Colonial Missions 1872 " 7, East India Avenue, E.C." Aiding Protestant Churches and Societies on the Continent and the Colonies. £807 "12 Churches on the Continent, in S.Africa and Australia" Foreign Missions 1847 Ditto The Evangelization of the Heathen. "£30,946" Many thousands Jewish Mission 1867 Ditto Religious Work among the Jews. "£1,315" Some hundreds Home Mission 1844 Ditto Aiding Young and Mission Congregations and Evangelistic work. "£3,142" 48 congregations Sustentation Fund 1872 Ditto Securing to Ministers a minimum Stipend. "£53,890" 121 congregations Aged and Infirm Ministers' Fund 1856 Ditto Retiring Allowance to Aged and Infirm Ministers. "£3,418" 36 annuitants Ministers' Widows and Orphans Fund 1866 Ditto Provision for Widows and Orphans of Ministers. "£7,194" "118 widows, 19 orphans" Scholarships 1844 Ditto Aiding Students for the Ministry. £641 15 students Instruction of Youth 1845 Ditto " Sabbath School Work, Higher Instruction of Youth, etc." £550 Some thousands College Fund 1844 Ditto Training of Students for the Ministry. "£5,329" 19 students [-204-] Preventive Hostel (The) 1866 " 61, St. Charles' Square, North Kensington" To provide temporary lodging and short period of training for young unfallen girls in need of such. £175 28 Princess Mary Village Homes for Little Girls 1871 " Addlestone, Surrey" " Established in 1871 by Mrs. Meredith for the bringing up of the female children of prisoners, and by a Trust Deed it is insured that the School shall always be for their benefit. It is a certified Industrial School on the family system." "£7200, including payments from Treasury, County, Parochial Rates, and Education Authorities; expenditure £10,999" 300 Prince of Wales (The) General Hospital 1867 " The Green, Tottenham, London, N." General Hospital for N.E. Londno and suburbs. "£9842, expenditure £10,798" "1681 In-patients; 27,185 Out-patients" "Printers' Pension, Almshouses, and Orphan Asylum Corporation" 1827 " Almshouses at Wood Green. Office, 20, High Holborn" " To maintain and educate orphans of deceased members of the printing business, and to pension (£10 to £31 10s.) aged and infirm printers and their widows. Has also the Westminster Abbey Pension Fund, which assists aged unmarried daughters of printers." "£10,511" 562 Pensioners; 25 Inmates of Almshouses; and 12 orphans Prison Mission. (Closed) 1864 "Protection of Women and Children, The Associated Societies for the" 1857 " Albion Chambers, 60, Haymarket, S.W." " To prosecute in cases of cruelty to women and children, to advise women who have been deserted or cruelly treated." "Ordinary income, £676 in 1915, expenditure £739" 785 cases were dealt with in 1915 Protestant Reformation Society 1827 " 57, Berners St., Oxford Street, W." " To promote the religious principles of the Reformation, and evangelize the Roman Catholics in England." "£3,503" [-206-] Providence (Row) Night Refuge and Home 1860 " Crispin Street and Artillery St., Bishopsgate, E." " To shelter, feed and restart in life deserving homeless men, women and children. The Charity also maintains a free Soup Kitchen, a small home for training young servants, a Boarding home for women out of employment, and a Home of Rest for women at St. Albans." "£5695, including £1038 Legacies" "About 30,000 nights' lodgings, suppers and breakfasts provided" Provident Clerks' Benevolent Fund 1840 " 27, 29, Moorgate Street, E.C." The granting annuities to aged clerks and their widows and gratuities to clerks in distress. "£3577, expenditure £4779 " 192 widows 46 clerks "Public Dispensary, The" 1782 " Drury Lane, W.C." " The gratuitous treatment of the sick poor, at the dispensary and at their own homes." "£668, expenditure £749" 2452 Pure Literature Society 1854 " 11, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C." " To promote the circulation of good and useful periodicals, books, gospel tracts, etc." "£1,210" "47 libraries, free books, and gospel tracts, free to soldiers and sailors" Queen Adelaide's Dispensary 1850 " Pollard Row, Bethnal Green Road, E." To provide medicine and advice for the sick poor of Bethnal Green. "£750, expenditure £560" "3649, including Dental casse" Queen Adelaide Naval Fund 1850 No office or office expenses. " For the relief of the orphan daughters of Naval and Royal Marine officers, by grants in aid of education - the maintenance of the aged - and help in temporary difficulty." "£460, expenditure £274" Grants to 21 "Queen's Anne's Bounty, The Corporation of the Governors of" 1704 " 3, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W." " The augmentation of small benefices. Lends money to build, rebuild parsonages, farmhouses, and buildings belonging to benefices, etc." "£267,213" Queen Charlotte's Lying-In Hospital 1752 " Marylebone Road, N.W." " 1. The delivery of poor women, both married and single - the latter only if pregnant with first child. A Governor's letter is requisite for both In- and Out-Patients. 2. The training of Medical Pupils in practical midwifery - also Midwives and Monthly Nurses." "£6451, expenditure £7688" 1817 In- and 2223 Out-patients [-208-] "Queen's Hospital for Children, The" 1867 " Hackney Road, Bethnal Green, E." " To afford medical and surgical relief to sick children of the poor, under 14 years of age." "£16,323 expenditure £14,310" "2029 In-patients and 4225 new Out-patients, making 98,346 attendances" Queen Victoria's Jubilee Institute 1887 " 58, Victoria Street" " The training, support and maintenance of women to act as Nurses for the sick Poor in their own homes, and generally the promotion and provision of improved means for nursing the sick poor." From investments about £5000; Subs and donations £5800 Ragged Church and Chapel Union (incorporated with Ragged School Union and Shaftesbury Society) 1856 " 32, John Street, Theobald's Road, W.C." To provide places of worship for the destitute poor. Included in return of Shaftesbury Society 140 Mission Centres and places of worship Railway Benevolent Institution 1858 " 12, Euston Square, London, N.W." " To grant temporary and permanent relief to railway officials and servants in distress, and to the widows, orphans and immediate dependants of men killed on duty or dying in the service." "£75,918" "5326 men, 500 widows, 3001 orphans" Railway Guards Universal Friendly Society 1849 " 167, Strand, W." To assure casual and grant disablement pay. "£9754, expenditure £10,038" 1600 "Railway Mission, The" 1881 " 1, Adam Street, Strand, W.C." " The spiritual, moral and physical welfare of railway employés. One thousand religious and temperance meetings are held by the Mission every week." "£2,432" Railway Mission Convalescent Homes 1887 Ditto " Has Convalescent Homes at St. Leonards-on-Sea and Southport, exclusively for railway men of all lines." "£1,484" 350 Railway : United Kingdom Railway Officers and Servants Association 1861 " 21, Finsbury Pavement, E.C." " To grant assistance in time of distress and necessity to railway employés, their widows and orphans." "£10,401, expenditure £8670" 1528 [-210-] "Raine's Schools, for Boys and Girls" 1719 " Arbour Square, Stepney, E." These Foundation Schools are administered as Secondary Schools under a Scheme issued by Charity Commissioners. Maintaining 100 Free Scholarships and a number of Exhibitions. Endowment £1296 other sources £7590; expenditure £9202 About 500 boys and girls "Reedham Orphanage, The (Incorporated)" 1844 " Reedham, Purley, Surrey. Office, 34, Walbrook, E.C." " To maintain and educate fatherless children, boys and girls, poor, but above the condition of paupers. Children are received at any age between 3 months and 11 years, and are cared for till 15 years of age." "£6916, expenditure £8946" 292 Reformatory and Refuge Union (Incorporated) 1856 " Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W." " To rescue the outcast and homeless - to act as the centre of the reformatory movement - to assist the reformatories, refuges, homes, industrial schools etc., throughout the kingdom, and to help the neglected and fallen." "£2,003" Reformatory and Refuge Union Provident and Benevolent Fund 1876 " Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W." " A fund for assisting officers of Institutions connected with the above union by grants, and helping them to secure annuities." "£3,184" 49 receiving annuities and grants Regions Beyond (The) Missionary Union (Incorporated 1903) 1872 " Harley House and College, 51, 53, Bow Road, E." " To train young men and women of any evangelical denomination as missionaries, and to conduct missions in Central Africa (Congo Balolo Mission) and India (Behar Mission)." "£18,000" "Many thousands, directly and indirectly" "Relief of Distress, Society for" 1860 " 78, Jermyn St., S.W." To relieve the poor of the Metropolis (by unpaid almoners) without distinction of creed or nationality. "£1,022" £1005 paid in grants [-212-] "Relief of Poor, Association for the" 1793 " Office, 59, Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons, E.C." To supply the poor of the city of London and parts adjacent with coals during the winter season. "£895, expenditure £877" 9255 cwt. of coal distributed Religious Tract Society (Incorporated 1899) 1799 " 65, St. Paul's Churchyard and 4, Bouverie St., E.C." " To publish religious books and tracts at home and abroad. Last year's missionary expenditure, £17,282." "£18,635, from Subs, Dons., Legacies and Ordinary Fund" Pastoral and mission work aided by literature in every quarter of the globe "Rescue of Young Women and Children, Society for the" 1853 " Office, 45, Cartwright Gardens, St. Pancras, W.C. Homes in various parts (*Homes for Girls unfallen but in circumstances of danger, Knighton Home, Woodford - and Red House and Homes for FALLEN YOUNG WOMEN, at Victoria House, 99, Central Hill, Norwood, Astral House, Buckhurst Hill and, for a shorter stay, 45, Cartwright Gardens, W.C." " The reformation of openly immoral women, and the guardianship and training of young girls exposed to danger." "£5,478" "381 Since founded 21,687 have been admitted" Richmond Mission House (in connection with the Female Aid Society and the Richmond Ladies' Association) 1885 " Moore House, Paynesfield Avenue, East Sheen" " To save girls and young women in perilous circumstances, and to rescue the fallen." £142 47 Robinson's Relief Fund 1812 No office. To give £10 yearly to poor Dissenting ministers in active work. £573 54 Robinson's Retreat 1812 No office. To assist widows of Free Church ministers. £397 12 "Royal Albert Orphanage, Bagshot, formerly Royal Albert Orphan Asylum" 1864 " Collingwood Ct., near Camberley. Office, 57, Gracechurch Street, E.C." " The maintenance, education, and industrial training of destitute orphan and fatherless boys - eligible for election between the ages of 8 and 12 years, remaining until 15." £1422 and £1939 Legacy; expenditure £2977 130 boys [-214-] Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen's Institution Opened 1867 " Office, 58, Fenchurch St., E.C. The Home, Belvedere, Kent" " To provide a Home or a Pension for the British Merchant Sailor when old and destitute, irrespective of rank, or ports of service." "£13,025 including £2632 from Legacies" 100 Inmates at the Home and nearly 300 Pensioners throughout the kingdom Royal St. Anne's Schools 1702 " Redhill, Surrey, Off., 58 Gracechurch St., E.C." " To clothe, maintain, and educate orphans and other necessitous children of parents of any country who have once moved in a superior station of life." "£11,643 including £1350 from legacies" 260 children Royal Asylum for Watermen and Lightermen 1839 " Penge, Surrey. Office, St. Mary-at-Hill, E.C." " Homes and pensions for poor and aged members of Company, or their widows." "£1,410" 67 Royal Caledonian Asylum 1815 " Bushey, Herts." " To maintain and educate the children of Scottish soldiers, sailors, and marines - also poor Scottish children of London." "General and inclusive, £7241, expenditure £6556" "105 boys and 63 girls, 168 in all" "Royal Dental Hospital of London (*No ticket is required for ordinary extractions, but for extraction under gas and for stoppings, a ticket from a Governor or subscriber is necessary)" 1858 " Leicester Square, W.C." " Gratuitous relief of the poor suffering from diseases of the teeth, etc." "£9,420" "53,348" "Royal Ear Hospital, The" 1816 " 42 & 43, Dean Street, Shaftesbury Avenue" " The treatment of diseases of the ear and nose, and the promotion of the study of Otology." "£1621, expenditure £923 " 37 In- and 296 Out-patients "Royal Eye Hospital, The" 1857 " St. George's Circus, Southwark, S.E." The relief of the necessitous poor suffering from diseases of the eye. "£7233, expenditure £5376" "21,018 new and 64,874 old cases" Royal Female Philanthropic Society 1822 " Manor Hall, Gt. Church Lane, Hammersmith" " For the reception of young women imprisoned for a first offence, or discharged from service for dishonesty, destitute young girls in danger of falling, and utterly untrained incapable girls." "£530, expenditure £506" 22 Royal Free Hospital 1828 " Gray's Inn Road, W.C." " The relief of the sick poor, without any letter of recommendation or other claim to its benefits beyond sickness and destitution, Has 165 Beds." "£23,365, including £7811 legacies" "2551 In-patients and 32,656 Out-patients. Maternity cases 315" [-216-] Royal Gardeners' Orphan Fund 1887 " 19, Bedford Chambers, Covent Garden, W.C." To aid in the maintenance of the Orphans of Gardeners and Foremen in gardens and nurseries. "£2266, expenditure £2202" 160 Royal General Dispensary 1770 " 25 & 26 Bartholomew Close, E.C." " To afford medical and surgical relief to the sick poor, and to visit them when necessary." £650 including patients' pence expenditure £924 6584 attendances and 1397 home visits Royal General Theatrical Fund 1839 " 55 & 56, Goschen Buildings, 12 & 13 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C." " To grant annuities of £40 to £120 to all persons who practise the arts of acting, dancing, or singing, also Acting and Stage Managers, Treasurers, Scenic Artists, Prompters, and Chorus Singers, who are members of the association." £3724 expenditure £1690 18 annuitants "Royal Hospital, Chelsea" 1682 " Chelsea, S.W." " For the relief and support of worn-out, wounded or disabled soldiers, in-pensioners receive small allowances of money and tobacco and are fed, clothed, and lodged." Supported by the State "558 (exclusive of Staff, Captains of Invalids, and Nurses)" Royal Waterloo Hospital (The) for Children and Women 1816 " Waterloo Road, S.E." " To give medical and surgical aid to poor children and women, as In- and Out-patients." "£8063, expenditure £8391" "1086 In-patients and 22,068 Out-patients" Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 1814 " City Road, E.C." " The relief of poor persons suffering from diseases of the chest, in any of their various forms. The Hospital has 2 beds at Creaton, Northampton and 1 bed at Holt, Norfolk." "£7033, expenditure £8100" "439 In-patients and new patients, 3687 Out-patients. Total attendances 17,774" Royal Hospital for Incurables 1854 " West Hill, Putney Heath. Office, 4, St. Paul's Churchyard, E.C." " To provide a permanent home or a pension for life, for those who, by disease, accident, or deformity, are hopelessly disqualified for the duties of life." "£20,872 and £10,314 legacies" Nearly 250 inmates and 700 pensioners Royal Humane Society 1774 " 4, Trafalgar Sq., Charing Cross, W.C." " The reward of those who have saved or attempted to save Life from Drowning - the supply and maintenance of Drags and Life Buoys at about 300 Stations - and the encouragement, by awarding prizes, of Swimming Competitions with reference to saving Life from Drowning." "£1937, expenditure £1795" 1047 persons were rewarded for saving or endeavouring to save life [-218-] Royal Literary Fund " 1790, Incor. 1818" " 40, Denison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Westminster, S.W." " To relieve authors of published works of approved literary merit, and authors of important contributions to periodical literature, who may be in want or distress, their widows, orphans, mothers, or sisters. In such cases only one grant can be voted." "£4,696" "54 grants, amounting to £3105" Royal London Ophthalmic Hospita (Moorfields Eye Hospital) 1804 " City Road, E.C., Telegrams ""Eyelashes, Finsquare, London."" Telephone, 1073, London Wall." The treatment of diseases of the eye. Free to the poor of every country and denomination. "£14,657, expenditure £15,059" "2208 In- and 54,566 Out-patients whose total attendances were 123,783" Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons and Widows of Freemasons 1842 " Asylum, Addiscombe Road, Croydon, Office, 4, Freemasons' Hall, Gt. Queen Street, W.C." " The granting of annuities to aged Freemasons and widows of Freemasons, with the option of residence in the aslyum." "£51,312 expenditure £46,342" "517 males, 830 females" Royal Masonic Institution for Boys 1798 " Bushey, Herts. Offices, 26, Great Queen St., Kingsway, W.C." " To clothe, maintain and educate, between 6 and 15 years of age, the sons of Freemasons in reduced circumstances. Deserving boys are retained beyond 15 years of age for higher education." "£42,610, expenditure £30,891" 630 boys Royal Masonic Institution for Girls 1788 " Clapham Junction, S.W. Offices, 21, Great Queen St., W.C." " To educate and maintain, from 7 to 17 years of age, daughters of Freemasons of every denomination under the English Constitution, who, from the death, illness, or misfortune of their fathers, are requiring the benefits of the Institution. There is also a scheme of out-education without election, under which 500 nominations have been distributed." "£36,189, expenditure £30,085" "373 girls and 295 special ""War"" cases. Nominations have been gratuitously granted, of which 41 are in use" Royal Maternity Charity of London 1757 " 31, Finsbury Sq., E.C." " For providing midwives, medical attendance, and medicines to poor married women in their own homes, gratis. A Training School for pupil midwives and maternity nurses is attached to the Charity." "£1536, expenditure £1653" About 1045 Royal Merchant Seamen's Orphanage (formerly Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum) 1827 " Snaresbrook, Essex. Dixon House, Lloyd's Avenue, E.C." " Board, education, and maintenance of the children of British merchant seamen deceased, from all parts of the world." "£9404, expenditure £10,227" 307 [-220-] Royal Military Benevolent Fund 1875 " Office, 5, London Wall Buildings, Finsbury Circus, E.C." To grant Annuities up to £40 to widows and unmarried daughters of officers in the Army and Royal Marines over 45 years of age. "Income (1915-1916), £1749, expenditure, £1222" 37 Royal National Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest " 1867, Incorporated in 1885" " Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Office, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C." " For the reception of patients suffering from consumption in the early stages, from all parts of the kingdom, irrespective of religious distinction. Founded on the separate or cottage principle." "£17,967, expenditure £15,458" 641 In-patients Royal National Lifeboat Institution 1824 " 22, Charing Cross Road, W.C." " To build and maintain Lifeboats, and to provide for their proper management - to reward all persons who, at the risk of their own lives, save, or attempt to save, shipwrecked persons on the coasts of the United Kingdom, etc." "£97,437 expenditure £109,148" "822 lives saved, 265 lifeboats maintained" Royal National Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen 1881 " Bridge House, 181, Queen Victoria St., E.C." " To ameliorate the spiritual, moral, and physical condition of fishermen on the North Sea and in Labrador. Maintains hospital mission steamers and shore institutes at the chief fishing centres." "About £22,277" 2755 patients Royal Naval Benevolent Society 1739 " 18, Adam Street, Adelphi, W.C." " To afford relief to distressed naval officers, being members, and the indigent widows, orphans, mothers, and sisters of deceased members." £4224 expenditure £3173 100 Royal Naval Scripture Readers' Society 1860 " The Trafalgar Institute, Portsmouth" " To provide readers for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, under official sanction and the clerical superintendence of the R.N. Chaplain at the principal Navy Ports." £2151 expenditure £2122 16 readers permanent "Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (with which is incorporated the City Orthopaedic Hospital* (*The only Orthopaedic Hospital in London. Carries on the work of the old Royal National and City Orthopaedic Hospital. New buildings have been erected in Great Portland Street, W., containing 213 beds.)" " 1838, 1864, & 1905" " 234, Great Portland St., W. and Bolsover Street, W." " The relief and cure of the various distortions of the spine, club-feet, and all contractions and malformations of the human frame. Seventy-five per cent of patients are children." "£16,686 expenditure £16,730" "In-patients, 1541; Out-patients, 5102; Attendances 31,368" Royal British Orphan Schools 1827 " Slough, Bucks. Offices, 27, St. Clement's Lane, E.C." For the maintenance of fatherless children of those once in prosperity. "£5677, including legacies" 176 (96 boys and 80 girls) [-222-] Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army 1864 " Lansdown, Bath. Office, Panton House, 25, Haymarket, London, S.W." " For daughters of officers in the Army or Royal Marines. Officers' daughters pay £20, £45, £65 and £80 a year, according to parent's income. Daughters of civilians pay £120." "£7779, expenditure £7684" 122 Royal School for Naval and Marine Officers' Daughters 1840 " St. Margaret's House, Twickenham" For educating and boarding at reduced cost the daughters of Naval and Marine officers of H.M.Service. "£4068, expenditure £3699" "82 pupils, 5 pay £10, 25 pay £12, 39 intermediate rates, and 13 pay higher rates" Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital 1791 " Margate. Offices, 13, Charing Cross, S.W." " For patients suffering from early tuberculous and diseases of the hip, spine, bones, joints, glands, etc. Full payment or part payment, with Governor's letter, required." "Ordinary income, £15,990" "688 In-patients, 30 Out-patients" Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1824 " 105, Jermyn St., London, S.W." " The circulation of appropriate pamphlets, etc., and the prosecution of persons guilty of cruelty. 210 officers are employed in London and elsewhere." "£46,792, including legacies" About 4062 conviction obtained in 1915. Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain 1738 " 12, Lisle Street, Leicester Sq., W.C." " The maintenance or relief of aged and infirm musicians, their widows and children. Occasional grants to non-members." "£4,700" "Pensions to 31 members, 31 widows, 14 children, 1 apprentice" "Royal Soldiers' Daughters' Home, The" 1855 " Roslyn Hill, Hampstead. Office, 5, Robert Street, Adelphi, W.C." " To receive, maintain, and train for domestic service the daughters of His Majesty's soldiers, from 6 to 16 years." "£4,790" 189 Royal South London Dispensary 1821 " St. George's Cross, Southwark, S.E." To supply the poor of the neighbourhood with advice and medicine gratuitously. £426 "995, including 331 visited at their own homes" Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association (The) 1863 " 7, Arundel St., Strand, W.C." " To grant annuities to persons of the upper and middle classes in reduced circumstances above forty years of age, free from any unsoundness of mind, and unable from bodily infirmities to earn their own livelihood - and to afford temporary help to candidates in distress, awaiting election." "£61,780 in 1915, including legacies and special benefactions" "1599 annuitants, 1422 grants of money to candidates and annuitants, besides 1500 parcels of clothing" [-224-] Royal United Service Orphan Home for Girls (formerly Royal British Female Orphan Asylum) 1839 Devonport " To train for domestic service 200 destitute female orphans of Soldiers, Sailors, and Royal Marines, especially of those who have lost their lives in the public service." "£4254, expenditure £3735" 200 are in the asylum Royal Victoria Patriotic School for Girls 1855 " Wandsworth Common. Office, Seymour House, 17, Waterloo Place, S.W." " To maintain and educate the orphan daughters of soldiers, sailors, and marines." "£9573, expenditure £6278" "Average numbers of girls in the Asylum, 266" Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital 1816 " King William Street, West Strand, W.C. Telephone No., 4975, Gerrard" " The relief of necessitous persons suffering from diseases of the eye. Has 40 Beds, constantly occupied. No letter of recommendation needed. Admission free." "Total Income £4771, expenditure £3875" "790 In- and 16,176 Out-patients; Attendances of the latter were 38,359" "Rupture Society, The" 1804 " Office, 16, Great James Street, Bedford Row, W.C." To provide trusses gratuitously to the ruptured indigent poor of both sexes throughout the kingdom. "£485, including special donation, £50, and grant, expenditure £499" 477 Saddlers' Company's Charity:- Honnor's Trust 1859 " Saddlers' Hall, 141, Cheapside" " Outdoor pensions for poor members of Saddlers' Company, freemen, and widows of decade members." 16 Sailors' (The Royal) Orphan Girls' School and Home 1829 " Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead" " Maintenance, clothing, and education of orphan daughters of sailors of R.N. and marines, and of merchant seamen and of fishermen." "£2,000" 75 inmates Sailors Home and Red Ensign Club (The) (Incorporated 1912) 1835 " Well St. and Dock St., London Docks, and Branch at Gravesend." " To provide a Home or Club, for merchant seamen when on shore, at moderate charges. Since its institution, 615,680 seamen, British and foreign, have been admitted." "£19,524 expenditure, £19,098" 8696 seamen have had quarters in the Homes St. Andrew's Convalescent Hospital 1861 " Clewer, near Windsor" " To receive convalescents and some incurables, for whom there is a special ward, from hospitals and elsewhere, if provided with subscriber's or donor's letter, or by payment." "£4,003" 761 [-226-] "St. Andrew's Waterside Church Mission. A Church of England Society for Sailors, Fishermen, and Emigrants, at Home and Abroad" 1864 " Offices, 65, Fenchurch Street, E.C." " To assist the Church of England in her endeavours to advance the spiritual welfare of sailors, fishermen, and emigrants, on board ship or ashore, both at home and abroad." "£5890, including branches; gifts of books, clothing, etc., about £1600" St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1123 and 1546 " Smithfield, E.C. (Convalescent Home at Swanley, Kent)" " To afford medical and surgical aid both to Out- and In-patients. Has 689 beds, of which about 335 are allotted to surgical cases." "about £114,074, expenditure £99,687" "8648 In-patients, and 68,425 Out-patients and casualties" St. Bartholomew's Hospital Samaritan Fund 1835 Smithfield To afford pecuniary and other aid to In-patients leaving the Hospital. "£824; balance from previous year, £252" 663 "St. Clement Danes' Holborn Estate (*This Estate also contributes to the assistance of the poor of St. Clement Danes by subscribing £300 to King's College Hospital, £100 to the Public Dispensary in Drury Lane)" -- " Office, Houghton Street, Strand." Almshouses 1849 " Garrett Lane, Lower Tooting" " Homes for 20 aged men and 20 aged widows or spinsters who have been ratepayers in the parish of St. Clement Danes, Strand, for 5 years." "£4,000" 40 with £50 per annum to each St. Columbia's Hospital for the Dying (formerly called Friedenheim Hospital) 1885 " Avenue Road, Swiss Cottage, N.W." " To receive cases in the last stages of illness, and to nurse them to the end. Chronic or infectious diseases, and aged or feeble persons, are not received." "£3839, expenditure £3854" 128 St. Cyprian's Home for Incurable Young Women. (Founded by the late Rev. C. Gutch) 1875 " 31, The Grove, Hammersmith" For incurable young women. Small payment required. 14 St. George (Hanover Square) Provident Dispensary 1868 " Little Grosvenor, W." To provide medicine and medical treatment for the sick poor of the parish. "£407, expenditure £400" 1080 St. George's Hospital 1733 " Hyde Park Corner, S.W. Has a Convalescent Hospital, the Atkinson Morley, at Wimbledon, of 100 beds to which patients are sent without charge." For the relief of poor sick and disabled persons. "£32,904, and Legacies £14,868; expenditure £44,911" "4503 In-patients and 24,894 Out-patients, including 445 sick and wounded Soldiers and Sailors" [-228-] St. Giles and St. George (Bloomsbury) Almshouse Charities 1656 " 10, Smart's Buildings, St. Giles-in-Fields, W.C." " Homes and 8s. weekly for 10 poor widows of these parishes. Also £25 per annum each for 24 aged pensioners, male or female, married or single." "£1325, expenditure £1165 " 34 St. Giles' Christian Mission 1860 " Mission Chapel, Wild St., Drury Lane. Neal St., Long Acre. Great Earl St., Seven Dials. Drury Lane. 15, Gray's Inn Road, and Greville Street, Holborn. Has Convalescent and Children's Holiday Home, and Orphanage and Houses for the Aged at Maldon, Essex." " To preach the gospel to the poor, to reclaim the sinful and gallen, and to relieve the distress of the deserving." "£9,335" St. Helena Hospital Home 1895 " Thorverton Rd., Cricklewood, N.W." A Convalescent Home for fallen girls under 30 years of age. Also Holiday Home for same. To take 12 inmates and 5 babies - 3 months limit of stay. "£452, expenditure £455" 133 women; 82 babies St. Helena's Industrial Home 1888 " Drayton Green, West Ealing Dean, W." " Reception of women and girls on discharge from prison, and for girls who have been convicted of dishonesty. A Branch of the Community of St. Mary at Wantage." "£2183, including receipt for Laundry" 27 girls received during the year St. James's Diocesan Home 1856 " Fulham Palace Road, S.W." " For the reception of female penitents, of the middle and upper classes, as well as of the lower class." "£2624, expenditure £2547" Average 60 in Home (Has accommodation for 60) St. John Ambulance Association 1877 " St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, E.C." To disseminate information as to the preliminary treatment of the sock and injured among all classes of society. "£30,751, expenditure £22,043" "38,038 persons certificated as qualified" [-230-] St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin 1863 " Out-patients and Office, 49, Leicester Square, W.C. In-patients', 262, Uxbridge Road, W." " For the relief of persons suffering from skin-diseases, from all parts of the world. Necessitous cases treated entirely free. Maintains 40 beds." "£4,422" "250 In- and 7572 new Out-patients. Attendances 35,735" St. John's Hostel and Training School for Girls 1842 " Great Western Rd., Westbourne Park, W." " To train girls for household service, etc., and provide a home for orphans and others upon payment of £12 per annum. Teachers and business girls can have board residence from 15s. weekly." "£2,043" 500 children and young persons St. John's Wood and Portland Town Dispensary (Provident and Free) 1845 " 96, St. John's Wood Terrace, St. John's Wood" " To give medical and surgical aid to the provident poor, and to the indigent by Subscribers' recommendation." "£473, expenditure £508" 4400 St. Jude's Home (belonging to the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society) 1862 " 49, Dagnall Park, Selhurst, South Norwood" " The maintenance and industrial training of girls between the ages of 8 and 14, for domestic service." See Waifs and Strays Society About 36 girls maintained "St. Katherine's Sisterhood, St. Katharine's Priory" 1879 " Normand House, Normand Rd., Fulham, S.W. St. Katharine's, Bexhill." " Prison rescue work. To receive and train to house work, laundry work, and needlework, young women convicted of a first petty theft - thus saved from prison." "£1185, including Laundry Work" "30 at a time, and kept for 2 years' training" St. Luke's Hospital 1751 " Old Street, E.C., and Convalescent Establishments at Nether Court, St. Lawrence, Ramsgate and Welder, nr. Gerrard's Cross, Bucks." " For the reception and cure of mental diseases, either gratuitiously or upon payment of a small weekly contribution. The Hospital has no State grant whatever." "£13,630, expenditure £15,313" "325. Over 25,353 have been admitted since the Hospital was opened" St. Luke's House (A Free Home for the Dying Poor) 1893 " 14, Pembridge Square, Bayswater, W." " To provide a free home of peace, where the respectable and deserving dying poor, whom no hospital will retain or receive, can be received and tended until death. Entirely unsectarian. 36 beds." "Ordinary income, £2162, expenditure £2143" 172 St. Luke's Parochial Schools 1698 " Old Street, E.C." Clothing and educating poor children of St. Luke's Parish. "£1247, expenditure £1283" 850 [-232-] "St. Mark's Hospital for Cancer, Fistula, etc." 1835 " City Road, E.C." " For the relief of the poor afflicted with cancer, fistula, piles and other diseases of the rectum. No letter of recommendation is required for treatment." "£5590, and £553 legacies" 737 In- and 1874 Out-patients St. Martin-in-the-Fields Almshouse and Pension Charity 1686 " Bayham Street, Camden Town. Office, 5, St. Martin's Place, W.C." " To provide homes and pensions of 9s. to 10s. per week for poor women of good character, residents in the Parish* (*A scheme which came into operation in November 1886, provides that certain charities bequeathed to the poor of the ancient parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, prior to the severance of the parishes of St. Paul, Covent Garden, St. Anne, Westminster, St. James, Westminster, and St. George, Hanover Square, shall be enjoyed by the several parishes in common with the parent parish) not less than five years - also out-pensions of 10s. and 7s. 6d. per week." "£2368, from real estate and money in the Funds" 44 almswomen and 68 pensioners St. Marylebone Almshouses Institution 1836 " St. John's Wood Ter., St. John's Wood. Office, 49, Upper Baker Street, Marylebone, N.W." " For aged and decayed householders of St. Marylebone, above 60 years of age, who have seen better days. Besides coals, and medical attendance in sickness, each married couple is allowed 15s., and each single person 9s., weekly." "£2,324" 65 St. Mary's Home (Waifs and Strays Society) (Continuation of the late Miss Rye's work in Peckham) 1914 " Sandy Lane, Cheam, Surrey" " Training of destitute girls, chiefly for emigration in Canada." See Waifs and Strays Society 50 permanent inmates St. Marylebone Female Protection Society 1838 " 157-9, Marylebone Road, N.W." " This institution was established for the purpose of affording a home for young women between the ages of 14 and 30, who have fallen from the path of virtue, and are about to become mothers - but who, up to the time of their fall, had borne a good character." £815 169 women and infants St. Marylebone General Dispensary 1785 " 77, Welbeck St., Cavendish Sq., W." " To afford advice and medicines to the sick poor, to attend married women in childbirth at their own homes, and to give relief in all cases requiring ophthalmic and dental surgery. Special department for Infant consultation." "£1068, expenditure £1255" 4242 [-234-] St. Marylebone Home for Incurables 1878 " 61, Weymouth Street, Portland Place, W." " To receive young and middle-aged women, of a rather superior class, of confirmed ill-health, upon payment of 10s. a week. Is a permanent home." "£893, expenditure £919" 16 inmates St. Mary Magdalene's Home 1865 " 26, Ranelagh Road, Paddington" " To give shelter for 12 months to single women, before and after confinement in Queen Charlotte's Lying-In Hospital with first child, if previously of good character. Payment of 5s. weekly for mother, 4s. child. Mother and child to remain a year in Home." "£673, expenditure £725" 57 women and 20 infants St. Mary's Hospital for Women and Children 1893 " Upper Road, Plaistow, E." For the medical and surgical treatment of women and children. "£4290, expenditure £4133; Special funds £133" "614 In- and 10,037 new Out-patients and casualties" St. Mary's Hospital 1845 " Praed Street, Paddington, W." The gratuitous relief of the sick or injured poor. Has 305 beds. "Ordinary £24,537; Legacies, £63,235" "3703 In-, 17,536 Out-patients, and 33 maternity cases. Casualties 20,715" St. Matthew's Home for Female Orphans 1839 " 49, Ossington St., Bayswater, W." " To maintain, clothe and give religious instruction at a minimum cost to destitute female orphans, born in lawful wedlock, and above 4½ years of age." "£481, expenditure £497" 19 St. Olave's and St. Saviour's Grammar School Foundation 1562 and 1571. New scheme 1909 " Boys' School and Office, Tooley Street, Southwark, S.E., and Girls' School, New Kent Rd., S.E." " To afford at Day Schools a liberal education for boys and girls. Several Exhibitions at Oxford or Cambridge, or at Public Institutions, besides Scholarships tenable in the Schools." "£8,800" About 800 St. Pancras Almshouses 1850 " Maitland Park, Haverstock Hill, N.W." " For respectable parishioners of St. Pancras in indigent circumstances, past the age of 60." "£1929, expenditure £1970" 69 [-236-] St. Pancras Dispensary 1810 " 39, Oakley Sq., N.W." " To relieve the sick poor, and to attend poor lying-in women at their own habitations." "£968, expenditure £973" 3048 St. Pancras Female Orphanage and Charity School 1776 " 108, Hampstead Road, N.W." " To maintain, clothe, educate, and put out to service the orphan children of poor parishioners, between 8 and 11 years." "£1,130" 41 "St. Patrick, Benevolent Society of" 1784 " 61, Stamford St., Blackfriars Rd., S.E." For the relief of the poor and distressed Irish residing in and about London and that of their children. £493 About 1400 St. Paul's Hospital for Skin and Genito-Urinary Diseases 1898 " Red Lion Square, W.C." To provide special treatment for the poor suffering from skin and genito-urinary diseases. "£1,277" "1337 new patients; 11,111 attendances" St. Peter's Home and Sisterhood 1861 " Mortimer Place, Kilburn" " For reception of sick and convalescent poor Women and Children. Women pay weekly 15s. and upwards, Children 5s. 6d., sick Ladies from 21s. upwards. One ward for consumptive patients in later stages 15s." 162 new cases St. Peter's Harbour -- " 10, Greville Place, Kilburn" Permanent home for women over 60. From 15s. to £2 2s. St. Peter's Hospital for Stone and Other Urinary Diseases 1860 " Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C." " The relief of the poor suffering from stone and other urinary diseases, both as In- and Out-patients. Beds for men, 24 - women, 2 - paying ward, 6 beds. No letter of recommendation needed." "£4733, expenditure £4849" "486 In-patients, 2697 new Out-patients" St. Peter's Orphan and Convalescent Homes. 1866 " St. Peter's, Broadstairs" " To receive for industrial training 80 orphan girls between the age of 5 and 10 on payment of £15 per annum - also female convalescents, over 14 years of age, on payment of 10s. 6d. per week." "£2461, expenditure £2304" 80 orphans and 212 convalescent patients Isle of Thanet (Tait Homes) -- " 1, The Sanctuary, Westminster" St. Saviour's Hospital for Invalid Ladies 1892 " Osnaburgh Street, opposite Portland Road Station, N.W." " The treatment, Medical and Surgical, of Ladies of limited means." "£3421, expenditure £208" 153 patients [-238-] St. Thomas's Home 1881 " St. Thomas's Hospital, Westminster Bridge, S.E." For paying patients. Terms 12s. per day. Operations and consultations extra. 645 St. Thomas's Hospital " 1200, refounded 1553" " Westminster Bridge, S.E." " To receive and treat diseases and bodily injuries of the poor. There is a limited number of beds for patients able to pay 3s. a day towards their maintenance, and also a special department for paying patients." "£94,437, expenditure £93,521" "9813 In-patients, and 63,500 Out-patients and casualties" Salters' Company's Almshouses 1454 & 1571 " Watford, Herts." " Homes for 17 poor freemen or freewomen of the Company, who receive an allowance, coals and medical attendance." "Salvation Army, The* (*Has about 9516 Corps and Outposts in Great Britain and abroad, with upwards of 22,152 Officers and Employees)" 1865 " Chief Office, 101, Queen Victoria Street, E.C." " To bring those at home and abroad who are not influenced by any other religious agency, especially the poorest classes, under the influence of Christian teaching - to rescue the fallen, and to find work for the starving unemployed." "Income (1913) received in the United Kingdom for Missionary and Social Work, £272,250" Samaritan Free Hospital for Women 1847 " Marylebone Road, N.W." " For the free treatment of poor women, suffering from diseases peculiar to their sex, both as In- and Out-patients." "Ordinary £5178; Legacies, £814, expenditure ordinary £6243; extraordinary £31" "In-patients, 1015; Out-patients, 3403" School of Handicrafts for Destitute Boys 1885 " Chertsey, Surrey. Office, Victoria House, 117, Victoria Street, S.W." " To educate, maintain, and clothe poor destitute boys and give them technical training. [-The School was founded by the late Dr. Hawksley, who gave £25,000 to purchase its site-]" "£4,076" 100 [-240-] Scientific Relief Fund of the Royal Society 1859 " Office of the Royal Society, Burlington House" To aid such scientific men and their families as may require assistance. "The dividend on £18,277 Railway and other Stock. Expenditure £1015" 13 Scottish - Corporation of the Royal Scottish Hospital " 1613 Incorporated by Charter, 1665" " 7, Crane Court, Fleet St., E.C." To assist by pensions deserving aged Scottish poor in London. To grant to Scottish widows left with young unprovided children an allowance for each up to twelve years old. To grant immediate relief to any deserving Scotch temporarily destitute. "£8606 (including £1100 from Legacies, but exclusive of the Kinloch Bequest)" 600 pensioners; about 2350 applicants in distress assisted and allowances to 100 widows in respect of 200 children under 14 Scripture Gift Mission 1888 " 15, Strand, London, W.C." " To supply the Scriptures in English and foreign languages, attractively illustrated with Palestine Pictures chiefly by free gift through missionaries." "£36,000" Circulation 10.25 millions "Seamen and Boatmen's Friend Society, The Incorporated" 1846 " Seamen's Chapel, Derrick Street, Rotherhithe, S.E." The spiritual and social welfare of seafaring classes at home and abroad (promoted by the Church of England). "£404, London district" "22,000" "Seamen, the Mission to" 1856 " 11, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C." The spiritual welfare of seafaring classes at home and abroad (promoted by the Church of England) "£62,393, expenditure £50,441" "Has 87 hon. chaplains, 312 chaplains, Scripture readers, lay helpers etc." Seamen's Christian Friend Society 1846 " Headquarters, St. George St., London Docks. Office, 255, Burdett Rd., E." " To promote the temporal and spiritual welfare of seamen, fishermen, boatmen, etc., by means of Institutes, Missionaries, etc." "£2,216" Many thousand persons. [-242-] "Seamen's Hospital Society - Removed from the ship ""Dreadnought,"" in 1870" 1821 Incor. 1833 " Greenwich, S.E. Branch Hospital, Albert Dock, E. Dispensaries, East India Dock Rd., E. and Gravesend" " The free reception of sick seamen from all parts of the World, and of every nation." "£26,675, expenditure £23,718" "2603 In- and 13,944 Out-patients" Seamen's Mission 1843 " Mission Houses, Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest, Jeremiah St., Poplar. Emery Seamen's Rest, Canning Town, E. Brunswick Chapel, Three Colt St., Limehouse, E." The religious and moral benefit of merchant seamen of all nationalities. "£1869, expenditure £2507" Several thousands Seaside Camps for London Working Boys 1889 " Bexhill and Wotton, Bucks. 7, John St., Adelphia, W.C." To give a Seaside Holiday to hard-working London boys of good character. £3290. This includes amount paid by lads and visitors 2850 boys "Seaside Convalescent Hospital, Seaford, Sussex, The" 1860 " Seaford, 12, Clifford's Inn, Temple Bar, London, E.C." " Complete rest, good and unlimited diet, and medical attention to convalescents, male and female, after serious illnesses and operations. Open all the year." "£4343, expenditure £3805" "956 (*A return railway ticket to and from the Hospital, available for one month, may be had for 5s.)" Shaftesbury Institute (Miss Meredith Brown's Homes) 1858 " Lisson Grove, N.W." " To help the homeless hungry and suffering poor. Helping women and girls who cannot help themselves. The various branches now comprises a Lodging Home for 102 working women, Labour Home for Women, Day Nursery, Mothers' Meeting, and Classes for Women and Girls." Expenditure £2035 "28,117 women, 8259 children" [-244-] Shaftesbury Society and Ragged School Union 1844 " 140 Schools and Mission Stations in all parts of London and District. Office, 32, St. John St., Theobald's Rd., W.C." " To promote the physical and moral well-being of destitute, neglected crippled children and adults - to aid in feeding and clothing the necessitous - to foster the establishment of Holiday Homes." "£30,278" "About 100,000" "Shaftesbury Shoeblack Brigade (The)* (*The Shoeblack Societies are, to a great extent, self-supporting. The receipts stated are the earnings of the boys) is the combination of the four Shoe Black Societies formed at dates named. No residential homes." " Central, 1851. East London, 1851. South London, 1854. North London, 1857." " 146B, King's Cross Road, N." Employment of necessitous or crippled lads and men. Included in General Funds of the Shaftesbury Society and R.S.U. 66 Sheriff's Fund Society 1807 No office. " The temporary relief of the distressed families of prisoners, and to aid discharged prisoners with money, food, clothing, tools, etc., so as to enable them to gain an honest living." £502 Over 1963 assisted after investigation Ship-brokers' Benevolent Society 1852 " 23, Billiter St., E.C." " To aid aged and indigent ship-owners, ship-brokers, their widows and unmarried daughters - pensions of £30 to £50 per annum, or to an unmarried daughter £20 to £25." "£1523, expenditure £1357" 42 Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society (The) 1839 Incor. 1850 " 26, Suffolk St., Pall Mall East, S.W." " To relieve shipwrecked sailors, fishermen, etc., of all nations, and the widows, orphans, or aged dependent parents of mariners - also to encourage thrift." "£31,352, expenditure £35,938" "15,581" Silver Trade Pension Society 1836 " 30, Theobald's Rd, Gray's Inn Rd., W.C." " To provide pensions for aged and infirm members, and their widows." "£1,425" 79 "Sion Hospital (Founded by Dr. Thomas White, then rector of St. Dunstan-in-the-West)" 1630 " Office, 66, Gresham House, Old Broad St., E.C." " Allows pensions not exceeding £50 per annum to 20 poor men and 20 poor women. The Almshouses were down away with some years ago, and the sum realized by the sale of the valuable site supplies the means for the larger grants now paid to the pensioners in the stead of free-rented homes." "Annual income about £1777, expenditure £1596" 40 [-246-] Skinners' Company Consolidated Charities:- Almshouses for Men and Women " *(*These Charities are administered under a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners 1891, called the Skinners' Consolidated Almshouses and Pension Charities Scheme. The Almshouses are at Palmer's Green, N.) 3rd Feb., 1891" " Skinners' Hall, Dowgate Hill, E.C." " Homes for 6 poor men and 12 poor women, with pensions." Pensions " 3rd Feb., 1891" " Skinners' Hall, Dowgate Hill, E.C." " Out-Pensions for deserving poor. For these Almshouses and Pensions and the Out-Pensions, poor Freemen of the Company, their widows and children (adult) have a preferential claim." Atwell's Loans Trust 1588 Ditto. " Loans of not exceeding £200 in one sum to young men already in business, giving sufficient sureties under a Bond." Lancaster's Charity 1618 Ditto. " Four Exhibitions of £16 a year (increased to £30 a year by the Company) to poor students of Divinity, two at Oxford, and two at Cambridge. Four Pensions of £5 a year (increased to £20 a year by the Company) for Poor Preachers." Lewis's Charity 1673 Ditto. One Exhibition of £5 a year (increased to £30 a year by the Company) for a poor Student at Cambridge. Meredith's Charity 1630 Ditto. Two Pensions of £5 a year each (increased to £20 a year by the Company) for Poor Preachers. Smith's (Alderman) Charity 1627 " 99, Gt. Russell St., Bloomsbury, W.C." To assist (1) the Founders poor kindred and make donations to London Hospitals (under a scheme settled by the Court of Chancery in 1889) and (2) the poor of certain parishes (through the church-wardens). "Income available- (1) about £10,000 (2) £4400" "About (1) 300 ""kindred,"" 25 hospitals and (2) the poor of 190 parishes" Soane's (Sir John) Fund 1837 " Soane Museum, 13, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C." " To aid distressed architects, and the widows and children of deceased architects left in straitened circumstances or in destitution." £160 27 [-248-] Société Belge de Bienfaisance 1866 " 10, Finsbury Sq., W." " To assist distressed Belgians in London, and, when advisable, to send them home." "£1251, expenditure £1052" 1828 Société Française de Bienfaisance 1842 " 41, Fitzroy Sq., W." " To relieve poor French persons, to grant pensions for life to old residents, and, when advisable, send back to France." £279 About 429 Society - Charity Organisation Society 1869 " Central Office, Denison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Rd., S.W." " To organise charitable effort, and to improve the condition of the poor." "At Central Office, £19,180 and at District Committees, £46,693: Total £65,873" "During the year 1914-15 the Society (Including all its local offices) dealt with 15,173 cases" District Committees: West Kensington -- " 3, Upper Phillimore Place, W." Ditto Fulham -- " 38. Barclay Rd., Walham Green, S.W." Ditto Hammersmith -- " 29, The Grove, Hammersmith, W." Ditto Paddington -- " 37, Sutherland Avenue, W." Ditto Chelsea -- " 2, Glebe Place, S.W." Ditto [-250-] St. George's Union. Tel. Victoria 1701. -- " 83, Cambridge St., Warwick Square, S.W." " To organize charitable effort, and to improve the condition of the poor." "St. James's, Soho, and St. Giles's" -- " 16, Greek Street, Soho, W." Ditto North St. Marylebone -- " 28, Upper Gloucester Place, N.W." Ditto Hampstead -- " 27, Heath Street, N.W." Ditto St. Pancras (North)* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 120, Highgate Road, N." Ditto St. Pancras (South)* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 80, Charrington Street, Crowndale Road, N.W." Ditto Islington* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 19, Compton Terrace, Highbury, N." Ditto Holloway* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 506, Holloway Road, N." Ditto Hackney* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 26, Pembury Rd., Hackney, N.E." Ditto Central Stoke Newington and Dalston -- " 26, Pembury Rd., Hackney, N.E." Ditto [-252-] Finsbury -- " 38, King Square, E.C." " To organize charitable effort, and to improve the condition of the poor." City of London -- " 66, Finsbury Pavement, E.C." (Enquiry Department of the Council) East Shoreditch -- " 19, New North Rd., Hoxton, N." " To organize charitable effort, and to improve the condition of the poor." Bethnal Green -- " 113, Mansford Street, E." Ditto Whitechapel Union -- " Toynbee Hall, Whitechapel, E." Ditto St. George-in-the-East -- " 194, Commercial Road, E." Ditto Stepney and Mile End -- " 27, East Arbour Street, E." Ditto Poplar Union* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 134, High Street, Poplar, E." Ditto North-West Ham -- " 53, Broadway, Stratford, E." Ditto South-West Ham -- " 53, Barking Rd., E." Ditto [-254-] South "St. Saviour's, Southwark* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division)" -- " 22, Nelson Sq., Blackfriars Road, S.E." " To organize charitable effort, and to improve the condition of the poor." Newington* (In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 30, Draper St., Walworth Rd., S.E." Ditto Bermondsey -- " 7, Stork's road, Bermondsey, S.E." Ditto Vauxhall* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 88, Upper Kennington Lane, S.E." Ditto North Lambeth* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 170, Lambeth Rd., S.E." Brixton* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 16, Pulross Road, Brixton, S.W." Ditto Wandsworth and Putney* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 21, Mexfield Rd., East Putney, S.W." Ditto Battersea* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 22, Cambridge Rd., Bridge Rd., Battersea, S.W." Ditto Clapham* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 3, Orlando Rd., S.W." Ditto Camberwell* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 27, Commercial Rd., Peckham, S.E." Ditto Dulwich* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 193, Landells Road, East Dulwich, S.E." Ditto Greenwich* (*In these Districts the Committee take charge of a part only of the Poor-Law Division) -- " 4, Nelson Street, S.E." Ditto [-256-] Deptford* (*In these Districts there are more than one Committee in the Poor Law Division) -- -- " To organize charitable effort, and to improve the condition of the poor." Woolwich Union -- " 114, Powis St., S.E." Ditto Lewisham -- " 9, Lewis Grove, Lewisham, S.E." Ditto Norwood and South Dulwich -- " 15, Camden Hill Road, Gipsy Hill, S.E." Ditto Sydenham -- " 84, Kirkdale, Sydenham, S.E." Ditto Society (The) for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1698 " 68, Haymarket, S.W. 43, Queen Victoria Street. 129, North Street, Brighton" " The Church's oldest Missionary Society, maintains Medical Missions, builds Churches and Schools for natives, trains them for Holy Orders, and as Mission Agents, circulates Bibles, Prayer-Books, Missionary work among emigrants, at sea, etc." "£39,954" "Money and book grants, £22,510" Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701 " 15, Tufton St., Westminster" " To establish and support Church of England missions among non-Christian peoples, and in our Colonies." "£241,007, expenditure £225,238" "1402 Missonaries upwards of 3000 Catechists and Lay Teachers, etc." Society for Relief of Distressed Jews (Syrian Colonization Fund) 1882 " 74, Brook Green, W." " To give relief and employment to Jews, also the refugees in Egypt." "£1135, expenditure £1012" Relieved over 2000 Society of Schoolmasters 1798 " Royal Literary Fund Chambers, Denison House, 296, Vauxhall Bridge Rd., Westminster, S.W." " The relief of necessitous schoolmasters of all schools not coming under Elementary Education Act, their widows and orphans." £610 31 (£654 voted in grants) "Soldiers' Effects Fund* (*The Fund takes it name from its being mainly formed by the accumulation of the unclaimed property of deceased soldiers. It is administered by the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation. The allowances to widows vary from 3s. 6d. to 5s. a week, and cease finally on re-marriage. The orphans also receive weekly grants, varying in amount according to the circumstances of each case. The allowance to boys ceases at the age of 14, and to girls at the age of 16.)" 1884 " Seymour House, 17, Waterloo Place, S.W." " The relief of the widows and orphans of non-commissioned officers and privates who, from the 1st of July, 1882, have lost, or lose, their lives through military service." "£3757, expenditure £11,769" 203 widows and 1244 chidlren and dependants [-258-] Soldiers - Royal Cambridge Fund for Old and Disabled Soldiers 1882 " War Office, S.W." " To relieve old, wounded, and disabled soldiers, of good character, late of H.M. Army." Available income about £1200 About 300 Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association 1885 " 23, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, S.W." " For aiding the wives and families of men of the Army and Navy, especially while serving." "£11,600" 3378 women and 9149 children Edgar Boat Fund 1895 As above " For the relief of Widows and Orphans of men lost in the launch of H.M.S. ""Edgar"" off Chemulpo in November, 1895." £48 (Principal withdrawn) 4 "Ditto, Officers' Branch, and Homes for Officers' Widows and Daughters" 1886 and 1900 As above (1) To supply suites of apartments rent free. (2) To temporarily aid necessitous widows of officers. "£2,475" 82 "Ditto, Nursing Branch" 1892 As above For supplying qualified District Nurses for Soldiers' and Sailors' families. "£2,148" "13,048" "Ditto, Clothing Branch" 1895 As above For supplying suitable clothing to wives and families of soldiers and sailors. "Ditto, Naval and Military Ladies' Work Society" 1905 As above " For sale of work by members (wives, widows, and daughters of officers of the Army and Navy)" Soldiers and Sailors Help Society (Incorporated) 1901 " 122, Brompton Road, S.W." " To obtain employment for discharged soldiers and sailors, and homes for the aged and disabled. To provide convalescent homes for sick and wounded in time of war. To teach useful trades to those who, by reason of their wounds or disability, are unable to take ordinary employment." "£15,379, expenditure £14,530" "4529 employed; 45,157 helped with money; 1729 sent to Convalescent Homes; 12,427 otherwise assisted" Solicitors' Benevolent Association 1858 " 2, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C." " For the relief of necessitous solicitors and proctors, their wives, widows, and families." "£6,603" 246 families Somersetshire Society 1811 " Address of Hon. Secretary, 5, Paper Buildings, Temple, E.C." " To apprentice poor children of Somersetshire parents, and, subsequently, to lend them money without interest to set up in business." "£249, expenditure £264" 52 South American Missionary Society (Formerly The Patagonian Missionary Society) 1844 " 20, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C." " Carries on Church of England work in all its branches, missionary and pastoral, in South America." "£17,750" [-260-] "South Lambeth, Stockwell, and North Brixton Dispensary" 1866 " Wilkinson Street, Albert Square, Clapham Road, S.W." " To provide medical and surgical advice, medicine, and attendance." £241 (including Patients' fees) 447 treated at the Dispensary and 171 at their Homes South London Hospital for Women (Incorporated) 1912 " Out-patients, 86-88, 90, Newington Causeway, S.E. In-patients, 103, South Side, Clapham Common." To give medical and surgical treatment by qualified medical women - to provide private wards for women of small means (1 to 3 guineas a week). "£1747, ordinary expenditure £1553" 5836 Southwark Diocesan and South London Church Fund " 1878, as Rochester Diocesan Society" " 49, Parliament Street, S.W." For promoting Church Work in South London and other parts of the Diocese. "£18,416" "Grants made, 16,253" "Southwark, Bermondsey, and Rotherhithe Girls' Home" 1880 " 103, Southwark Park Road, S.E." To rescue girls from immoral lives. "£264, expenditure £305" 81 Spanish and Portuguese Church Aid Society 1869 " Church House, Westminster, S.W." To aid the Reformed Spanish and Portuguese Churches in the faithful preaching of the Gospel and in the general work of Evangelization. "£3,677" Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Board of Guardians 1837 " Heneage Lane, Bevis Marks, E.C." The relief of the poor of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation. "£1697, expenditure £1757" "285 families. Coals and blankets, 105 weekly allowances, 1450 casual cases" Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Hospital 1747 " 253, Mile End Road" " For sick, poor, lying-in women, and asylum for the aged of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation." "£1076, expenditure £1020" 19 [-262-] Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Orphan Society 1703 " 2, Ashworth Rd., Maida Vale, W." " To instruct, clothe and maintain orphans of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews." "£822, expenditure £796" 14 Spurgeon's Orphanage 1867 " Clapham Road, S.W." A home and school for fatherless boys and girls. "£53,035, expenditure £18,043" 500 Squire's Almshouses 1796 Walthamstow Homes for 6 Widows of Tradesmen. £94 6 Stationers' Company's Charities About 1403. Incor. 1557 " Hall, Stationers' Hall Court, Ludgate Hill, E.C." Income about £3000 Blackwell's Gift 1818 Ditto £4 3s 4d. each to deserving journeymen letterpress printers. 19 Bowyer's Gift 1777 Ditto " Annuities of £20 and £15 respectively to pressmen over 63 years of age. Also £30 per annum for one journeyman compositor, not under 31 years of age, acquainted with Latin, and able to read Greek." 10 Cater's Gift 1718 Ditto £1 each per annum to 14 freemen. 14 Clarke's Gift 1838 Ditto " The sum of £10 per annum for the widow, 60 years of age, of a liveryman or freeman." 1 Company's Pension 1601 Ditto Seventy pensions of £8 to £4 per annum to Freemen and Widows of Freemen of Company. 72 Compton's Gift 1862 Ditto A pension of £12 per year to deserving compositors 60 years of age. 1 Davis's Gift 1850 Ditto " Annuities of £18 each for compositors, freemen of London, 60 years of age." 6 Dilly's Gift 1803 Ditto Two pensions of 10 guineas each to widows of liverymen. 1 Figgins's Gift 1884 Ditto " Four pensions of £24 each for aged, sick or worn-out compositors." 5 Guy's Gift 1717 Ditto Eighteen pensions of £4 per annum to freemen and widows of freemen of Company. 20 [-264-] Hamblin's Gift 1848 " Hall, Stationers' Hall Court, Ludgate Hill, E.C." " The sum of £6 annually to widows of liverymen or freemen, not under 50 years of age." 1 Hansard's Gift 1818 Ditto " Pensions of £9 each for compositors or pressmen over 65 years of age, and free of the Company - pensions of £5 each to printers, booksellers, stationers, warehousemen, or binders, over 60 years, and freemen - also three pensions of £8 each to warehousemen, binders, or stationers, over 60 years of age." 7 Johnson's Gift 1795 Ditto Pensions of £9 10s. 4d. each to widows of liverymen over 60 years of age. 4 Nichols's Gift 1817 and 1855 Ditto " Pensions of £9 13s. 4d. each to compositors or pressmen, 21 years free of Company, and 45 years of age." 2 Strahan's (A.) Gift 1815 Ditto Pensions of £8 each to distressed compositors or pressmen. 5 Ditto 1818 Ditto Pensions of £10 each to printers 65 years of age. 1 Strahan's (W.) Gift 1784 Ditto " Pensions of £3 12s. 10d. each to poor journeymen printers, natives of Scotland - and to natives of England or Wales, free of the Company." 10 Whittingham's Gift 1840 Ditto " Pensions of £10 each for widows of compositors or pressmen, 50 years of age." 5 Wilkins' Gift 1773 Ditto Pensions of £1 a year each to freemen and widows of freemen. 2 Wrgiht's (Ald.) Gift 1798 Ditto Two guineas each per annum to poor freemen of Company. 23 [-266-] Stationers' Company's School 1858 " Ridge Road, Hornsey" To educate boys at fees not exceeding £10 10s. per annum. 330 boys Stationers' and Paper Manufacturers' Provident Society 1840 " 15, Dowgate Hill, Cannon Street, E.C." " To support poor members, their widows and children." "£1,619" 20 Stock Exchange Benevolent Fund -- " Stock Exchange, E.C." To assist necessitous members and their families. Private Fund "Stafford's (Alexander) Charity (Formerly Almshouses, in Gray's Inn Road, W.C.)" 1651 " Secretary's Office, 8, Gray's Inn Square, W.C." " Pensions of £25 each to 77 poor residents in parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, or St. George the Martyr, Queen's Square, also Convalescent Home letters for like persons and children of the said parishes* (*The Trustees have also secured permanent beds to Convalescent Homes for the poor of the parishes above named.)" "£2,350" 129 "Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans, and South Sea Islanders" 1857 " West India Dock Road, Limehouse, E." " Home, employment and protection for Oriental Sailors, etc." "£3535, expenditure £3501" 1654 admitted to the Home "Sunday School Union, The" 1803 " 56, Old Bailey and 57, Ludgate Hill, E.C." " To stimulate and encourage Sunday-school teachers, at home and abroad, to improve the method of instruction - and to supply books and stationery suited for Sunday schools at reduced prices, and to maintain Convalescent Homes for children and teachers." "£10,023, expenditure £9573" Sunday Society 1875 " 7, Pall Mall, S.W." To maintain the opening of museums and similar places of instruction to the people on Sundays. Vigilance Committee appointed. Ordinary work suspended. £135 The General Public Surgical Aid Society (Royal) 1862 " Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, E.C." " To provide spinal and other surgical appliances, for diseases requiring mechanical support, and to afford surgical aid. Water and air beds, couches, and chairs lent to the afflicted." "£26,536, including contributions from Branches and £1611 from Legacies" "23,975 to whom 36,058 surgical appliances were supplied" [-268-] Surrey Dispensary 1777 " 6, Gt. Dover St., Southwark, S.E." " To give medical aid to the poor of district, and attendance upon lying-in women." "£1527, expenditure £1018" "12,623, including 19 midwifery cases" Surrey Orphanage and Home for Girls 1874 " Bensham Grove, Thornton Heath, Surrey" " The moral and religious training of respectable girls, orphans or otherwise, and to fit them for domestic service, on payment of £12 per annum." £276 15 Surveyors' and Auctioneers' Clerks' Provident Association 1883 " Auction Mart, Tokenhouse Yard, E.C." " To assist and relieve members of the association, their widows and orphans." "£701, expenditure £315" 176 "Tailors, Benevolent Institution for the Relief of Aged and Infirm Journeymen" 1837 " Haverstock Hill. Office, 27, Regent Street, S.W." " Relief of aged and infirm journeymen tailors, by weekly pensions, and to their widows." "£2828, expenditure £2780" 99 Tallow Chandlers' Co. - Roger Monk's Charity -- " Dowgate Hill, E.C." To pension poor aged members of Company who have not received parish relief. £230 6 Tancred's Charities to Members of the Church of England 1721 " 28, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C." " To give studentships, not exceeding £100 per annum, tenable until B.A. or M.B. degre, or Call, and for three years after to students of divinity (at Christ's Coll., Cam.) medicine (at Caius Coll., Cam.) and law (at Lincoln's Inn) - also pensions, not exceeding £80 per ann., to poor gentlemen, clergymen, or officers of H.M. sea or land forces." Charity commissioners have account supplied to them half yearly 21 "Teachers, The Benevolent and Orphan Fund of the National Union of" 1877 " Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, Euston Rd.,W.C. Homes for Orphans: Passmore Edwards House, West Hill, Sydenham, S.E. for Boys - Page Hall, Sheffield, for Girls." " To assist teachers in temporary distress by loans or gifts, and to grant annuities up to £34 to teachers, or their widows. To erect and maintain Orphanages, to assist consumptive teachers to sanatorium treatment, to make home allowances of 5s. and 7s. 6d. weekly, and special grants of 2s. 6d. and 3s. 6d. a week, for the benefit of the orphans and necessitous children of teachers." "£23,806, expenditure £20,961" 2047 [-270-] Temperance Hospital (London) 1873 " Hampstead Road, N.W." For the treatment of disease without the ordinary use of alcohol. "£10,732 (ordinary)" "1233 In- and 19,546 Out-patients (including casualties)" Temperance - National British Women's Temperance Association (Incorporated) 1876 " 47, Victoria St., Westminster, S.W." " The union of Women Temperance Societies in the United Kingdom to promote Temperance, and suppression of liquor traffic." "£2059, expenditure £1913" "Comprises 1811 Societies, with about 160,000 members" The Dogs Home or the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs 1860 " Battersea Park Road, S.W. adjoining L.C.& D. Railway Station, and Hackbridge, Surrey" " To rescue lost dogs from dying of starvation in the streets, restoring them to rightful owners, and where not claimed, to find suitable homes for them, and painlessly to destroy injured, diseased or worthless animals. Dogs and cats received as boarders at Hackbridge, and dogs for quarantine under Board of Agriculture rules." "£9560, expenditure £7067" "25,694 dogs were received" The Royal Earlswood Institution 1847 " Earlswood, Redhill, Surrey. 14 Ludgate Hill, E.C." To train and educate the feeble-minded and imbecile. "£34,000" 544 "Theatres - Society for Special Religious Services in Theatres, Halls and Mission Rooms in London" 1859 " 21, Surrey St., Strand, W.C." To preach the Gospel to the non-church-going class. "£220, expenditure £244" "Theatrical Mission, and Homes" 1876 " 90 and 92, Charlotte St., Fitzroy Sq." " The temporal and spiritual benefit of theatrical employées, &c., of various nationalities. Also provides reading rooms, libraries, and refreshments at cost price, and sleeping accommodation for young actresses." "£1986, expenditure £1738" About 60 girls accommodated weekly The National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clock Makers 1815 " Horological Institute, Northampton Sq., E.C." " To grant annual pensions to old and poor men of the trade, and to their widows." £170 12 (6 men and 6 women) The National Institutions for Persons requiring Care and Control (Incorporated) 1895 " London. Office, 14, Howick Place, Victoria Street, S.W." " To establish colonies, institutions, etc., for reception of persons requiring care and control. Establishments at Bristol, Chesterfield, East Harling, West Bromwich, and Stapleton, under the Children Act, the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913, and other statutes." "£57,879, expenditure £59,286" 2047 [-272-] The Society for the Protection of Life from Fire " 1836, recon. 1843" " 26, New Bridge Street, E.C." To reward persons for saving life from fire. £270 68 rewarded The Sutherland Needy Children's Aid and Fairy Tale Society 1899 " 61, West Smithfield, London, E.C." " Giving free meals, country holidays, fairy tale entertainments, etc., to poor London children. The Society is absolutely unsectarian. All offices are honorary." £32 "Free meals, 2310 and entertainments; Country Holidays, 14" Throat - Hospital for Diseases of the Throat 1863 " Golden Square, W." " The treatment of poor persons suffering from diseases of the throat, ear, and nose, free to the necessitous - others must obtain a Subscriber's letter, or make a small weekly payment according to means." "£6619, expenditure £6712" "During 1915 789 In-patients and 10,334 new Out-patients. Total attendances of Out-patients, 47,383" Throat - Municipal Throat and Ear and Nose Infirmary 1877 " City Road, near Angel, E.C." " The treatment of diseases of the throat, ear and nose. Free to the indigent." £228 775 Tin Plate Workers' Company 1670 " Baker's Hall, Harp Lane, E.C." " Small pensions (not exceeding £3 a year) to freemen of the Company, or their widows or daughters." £18 8 Tobacco Trade Benevolent Association 1860 " 91 & 93 Bishopsgate St., E.C." " To relieve aged and necessitous members of the tobacco trade, their widows and orphans." "£2036, expenditure £1595" 61 Pensioners and 31 grants Tower Hamlets Mission 1869 " Gt. Assembly Hall, Mile End Rd., E. Has several branches. " "To evangelize the masses in the East of London, to carry on temperance and rescue work, and to relieve distress." "£7274, expenditure £7619" Travellers' Aid Society (for Girls and Women) 1885 " 3, Baker Street, W." The protection of girls and inexperienced young women having to travel alone to London or any part of the world. "£1551, expenditure £1541" "Over 12,000 (As the Society has Workers in all parts of the world, it is not possible to state the whole number of persons annually assisted)" [-274-] Trinitarian Bible Society (for the free circulation of Protestant or uncorrupted versions of the Word of God) 1831 " 7, Bury Street, London, W.C." " The circulation of the Holy Scriptures, in English and foreign languages, as comprised in the Canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, without note or comment." "£4,328" The Tuberculin Dispensary League 1910 " 1, Manor Street, Chelsea" The treatment of tuberculosis by tuberculin. "£1,910" Tylers' and Bricklayers' Company's Almshouses -- " King Henry's Wlk., Balls Pond, N." " To receive poor freemen and liverymen of Company, and their widows. They receive about £25 a year each, and coals." 13 United Kingdom Band of Hope Union 1855 " 59 & 60, Old Bailey, E.C." To promote total abstinence amongst the young. "£3624, expenditure £3193" "2,964,571 members" Universal Beneficent Society 1866 " 15, Soho Square, W." " To help the aged and infirm by pensions, and to relieve the distressed who are deserving." "£2488, Legacies £1800, expenditure £3238" "468, including 113 annuitants" University College Hospital (North London) (Incorporated) 1833 Rebuilt and Enlarged 1897 " Gower Street, W.C." " The gratuitous relief of poor sick or maimed persons, both as In- and Out-patients, and the delivery of married women at their homes. Three hundred and three beds available. Separate departments for special forms of disease." "£32,688, including £7397 for Soldiers, and £6821 Legacies; expenditure £33,269" "4643 In- and 58-896 Out-patients, includign 2386 Midwifery cases" Vaughan's (Mrs.) Charity 1865 " Gravel Lane, Southwark." " Homes for 24 poor women in the parish of Christchurch, Southwark, with 9s. a week in summer, and 9s. 6d. in winter." 24 [-276-] Vellum Binders' and Machine Rulers' Pension Society 1842 " St. Bride Institute, Bride Lane, E.C." Weekly pensions in old age or infirmity to males and females connected with the trade. Income about £230 9 "Visitation of the Sick (The Society for), in Hospitals and Infirmaries" 1904 " 112, St. Martin's Lane, Trafalgar Square, W.C." " 1. To promote the systematic visitation of the sick, chiefly in hospitals and infirmaries, by those qualified to explain the way of salvation. 2. To provide, by means of the same agencies, for the distribution of suitable religious literature, grants are warmly welcomed." "£470, expenditure £460" "About 3000 patients are visited weekly in some forty institutions, naval, military and civilian" "Waifs and Strays, Church of England Society for Providing Homes for (Incorporated)" 1881 " Office: Old Town Hall, Kennington Road, London, S.E. Has 114 Homes in England and Wales, and 2 in Canada." " To provide Homes for destitute orphans, and outcast children of both sexes. Means adopted:- 1. Small Homes 2. Boarding out 3. Emigration." "152,798, expenditure £134,737, Balance of receipts over expenditure was £18,061 of which £9171 is for building new homes and special purposes" "948 new cases received. Since the Society was founded it has found homes for over 21,000 children; over 4700 now under Society's care" Waldensian Church Missions in Italy 1868 " Laurel Bank, Upper Tooting Park, S.W." The Evangelical preaching of the Gospel in Italy. £6726 by English Committee Walsham How Memorial Home (Industrial) for Girls 1884 " 1, Forest Rise, Walthamstow" " To receive fallen girls, between the ages of 13 and 20, and train them for domestic service. (Named after the late founder).#" "£1027, expenditure £1227" Accommodates 25 at a time Walter's Almshouses 1658 " Nightingale Rd., Wood Green, N." " Homes for 6 poor women of Shoreditch parish, receiving 7s. each per week." 6 [-278-] Warehousemen Clerks & Drapers' Schools 1853 " Russell Hill, Purley, S.O. Surrey. Office, 4, Ludgate Hill, E.C." " To support, clothe, and educate orphan and necessitous boys and girls of warehousemen and clerks employed in any wholesale trade, or retail drapers, their clerks or shopmen, in any part of the United Kingdom, who have been or have not been subscribers." "£15,458, expenditure £14,510" 319 Weavers' Company's Charities -- " 70, Basinghall Street, E.C." " Grants pensions of from £5 to £13 yearly to poor weavers, male and female, and other connected with the Company." About £1450 46 Almshouses 1725 Wanstead " To receive and support 12 poor men, freemen of Weavers' Company, or weavers by trade, and to receive and support 12 poor freewomen or widows of freemen of Weavers' Company, or widows or daughters of weavers by trade." About £1450 23 Wellington (The) College 1853 " Office, Wellington College, Wellington College Station, Berks." To board and educate on Foundation sons of deceased army officers who within five years of their death received pay from the Crown. Has several valuable Scholarships. Non-Foundationers are also admitted. "£48,461, expenditure £44,658" 88 foundationers Welsh Girls' Schools 1715 " Ashford, Middlesex" To educate and board girls of Welsh parentage. Supported by the Society of Ancient Britons About 150 Wesleyan Home Mission 1749 " Central Buildings, Westminster, S.W." " The employment of Home Missionary Ministers and Lay Agents, and also of Ministers to Wesleyans in the Army and Navy." "£38,456 inclusive of legacies" Assisted Methodism in about 300 Circuits and Stations Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society 1813 " 24, Bishopsgate, E.C." The support and enlargement of the foreign missions carried on under the sanction of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. "£265,445" [-280-] Wesleyan Training College for Female Students 1872 " Southlands, High St., Battersea, S.W." " To train teachers (women) for Day Schools under the Board of Education. £36 11s. for two years board, tuition, laundry and medical attendance." "£8,596" 144 students Wesleyan Training College for Male Students 1851 " 130, Horseferry Road, Westminster, S.W." " To train teachers (men) for Wesleyan and other day schools. The fee paid by each is £30 for the two years' board, lodging, tuition, laundry and medical attendance." "£12,621" 146 students Westbourne Provident Dispensary and Maternity 1855 " 244, Harrow Rd., W." " To give medical aid to the poor, and attend on poor women during confinement on payment of a small sum monthly." "£227, including payments from Patients, expenditure £229" "3275 attendances of patients, and 12 maternity cases" Westby's (Mary) Pension Charity 1749 There is no Office. " To support 10 poor women, members of The City Temple, Weigh House, or New Court Chambers." Private accounts 10 West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases 1878 " 73, Welbeck St., Cavendish Sq., W., and Marylebone Lane, W." " For the treatment of the poor suffering from diseases of the nervous system, paralysis, and epilepsy, with special wards for children." "£8734, expenditure £8038" "305 In-patients and 2943 Out-patients, new cases attendances, 34,320" West London Hospital 1856 " Hammersmith Road, W." The gratuitous relief of the sick or injured poor. "£17,629; expenditure £20,215" "2714 In- and 34,754 Out-patients" Western Dispensary 1789 & 1879 " 38, Rochester Row, Westminster" " To gratuitously relieve the sick poor at the Dispensary, or at their homes, also lying-in women, and for the provision of medical attendance, etc., to provident members. There is a Convalescent Branch." £34 (including £1396 Patients' payments) 4456 Western General Dispensary 1830 " Cosway Street, Marylebone Road, N.W." To provide medical and surgical aid and nurses for the sick poor - also midwives and medicine for poor women in their confinement at their own homes. "779, expenditure £891" 2650 patients; 3674 Home visits; 70 Nurses' visits [-282-] West Ham and Eastern General Hospital and Dispensary 1861 " Stratford, London, E." " (1) To receive and treat accidents and urgent cases at any hour. (2) To give advice, medicines, and surgical aid to poor persons." "£913,248, Legacies £2950" "1579 In-patients, 36,461 Out-patients" Western Ophthalmic Hospital 1856 " Marylebone Rd., nr. to Baker St., and Edgware Road Stations" The Treatment if poor persons suffering from diseases of the eye. "£2669, expenditure £2144" "409 In-patients, and 26,020 Out-patients" Western Skin Hospital 1851 " 44-46, Hampstead Road, N.W." The treatment of poor persons suffering from diseases of the skin. "£1254, including Patients' Payments" 7042 attendances Westminster Greycoat Hospital (Endowed) Day School for Girls " 1698, reconstitut'd 1873" " Greycoat place, near Victoria Street, S.W." " A sound and comprehensive education to 400 girls. 133 free Foundation Scholars* (*The Foundation Scholars are nominated from the Public Elementary Schools of Westminster or elected on the ground of orphanage and adversity. The School is quite distinct from, but is worked under arrangements similar to those of the United Westminster Schools). Girls prepared for all examinations. Has also a Boarding School at Caversham, Oxon., for 120 Girls, Queen Anne's School." "£3,844" 110 Westminster Female Refuge 1856 " 11, Tufton St., Dean's Yd., Westminster, S.W." " To receive penitent women and girls temporarily (Conned with Church Penitentiary Association). Age limit, 25." "£576, about £42 from invested fund and £515 from voluntary subscriptions" 131 Westminster French Protestant School 1747 " 233, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C." " To maintain, clothe and educate 15 daughters of poor descendants of French Hugenot refugees, from 7 to 14½ years of age." £426 15 "Westminster General Dispensary (Incorporating, 1907, St. George's and St. James's Dispensary)" 1774 " 9, Gerrard Street, Soho, W." Free medical and surgical relief of the sick poor. "£749, expenditure £724" 3855 Westminster Hospital " 1719, Incor. 1836" " Broad Sanctuary, Westminster, S.W." To receive and treat the sick and injured poor. "£24,289, including legacies" "2215 In-patients and 13,362 Out-patients (Out-patients are only registered on the occasion of their first attendance, the majority attend several times)" [-284-] Westminster Jews' Free School 1811 " Hanway Place, Oxford Street, W." To educate poor Jewish children of both sexes. "£915, expenditure £935" "245 boys, 239 girls" "Westminster School (Otherwise St. Peter's College, Westminster)" Refounded 1560 " Dean's Yard, Westminster" " Educates 40 resident and 20 non-resident foundationers, called King's Scholars, also 13 Exhibitioners. Each King's Scholar receiving a scholarship of £35 school fees. Resident King's Scholars further receive full maintenance for £30 yearly. Exhibitions worth £30 or £20 yearly.* (*The School fees for Town Boys are 5 guineas at entrance, and 30 guineas annually for tuition. These fees include all the ordinary instruction, together with drawing, singing, and drill." £3500 from endowment "Westminster Technical Fund* (*Formerly Apprentice Funds left by Sir John Cutler, 1679, and Charles Rampayne, Esq., 1705)" 1877 " 53, Palace Street, Westminster." " The technical education of boys (being Foundationers) of the Westminster City School, and of girls (also Foundationers) of the Grey-coat Hospital." £171 "Westminster - United Westminster Almshouses (Comprise Palmer's, Butler's, Emery Hill's, and Hannah S. Chadwick's Almshouses, amalgamated in 1879 by the Charity Commissioners)" United in 1879 " Rochester Row, Westminster, S.W." " These Charities provide almshouses for 9 married couples and 18 single persons, with pensions of £42 each to the former, and £27 each to the latter, and coals - also out-door pensions, at present 42 of £20, 14 of £15, and 13 of £10 - and £100 per annum for apprenticing children." "Westminster - Westminster City School* (*These Schools were constituted by a Scheme of the Endowed Schools Commissioners in June, 1873 (amended by Supplemental Schemes of the Charity Commissioners. February, 1878 and 1899), whereby they appropriated Emanuel Hospital founded by Lady Dacre, 1594 - St. Margaret's Hospital (Greencoat School), founded by King Charles I., and incorporated 1633 - Palmer's School, founded by Rev. James Palmer, 1650 - and Hill's Grammar School, founded by Emery Hill, Esq., in 1708, and thus they formed the United Westminster Schools - a Day School and a Boarding School." Reconstitut'd 1873 and 1878 " 53-55, Palace St., Victoria St., S.W. Office, 53, Palace st." " A Day School for the liberal education of 500 boys, 125 free called Foundationer Scholars.* (*Of the 190 Foundationers, who receive wholly free education, two-thirds are drawn from the Public Elementary Schools of Westminster and Chelsea, and the remaining one third are orphans or cases of adversity elected by the Governors. The other boys have to pay a fee (in advance) of £4 17s. 10d. a year in the Lower Division and £6 15s. in the Upper Division. The sum of £500 a year is given in Exhibitions in this and Emanuel School.)" "£6,576" 500 pupils Westmorland Society's School 1746 " Norwood Road, Herne Hill. Office, 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C." To maintain and educate poor children of natives of Westmorland. The candidate for election must be over 8 years of age. "£723, expenditure £754" 19 [-286-] White Cross League Church of England Society 1883 " 7, Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W." " To promote purity among men - a chivalrous respect for womanhood - the preservation of the young from contamination - rescue work, etc." "£1367, expenditure £1080" Meetings of soldiers and other men addressed; £1122 worth of literature sold Whitelands College 1849 " King's Road, Chelsea" The training of schoolmistresses for elementary schools. "£10,927 of which £7165 from Board of Education Grants" 187; and 3 day students "Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, Society for Relief of" 1788 " 11, Chandos St., Cavendish Sq., W." To provide relief for distressed widows and orphans of members of the Society. "£4467, expenditure £4605" "48 widows, 11 orphans" Widows' Friend Society 1808 " 28, Basinghall St., E.C." To assist poor widows resident in the Metropolis to earn a livelihood for themselves and their families. Grants pensions of £6 or less each to aged Christian widows. "£1276, expenditure £1277" "175 pensioners, and about 100 grants to others" "Widows, George Ballard's Home for" 1883 " 43, Newton Rd, Westbourne Grove, W." " A Home for 6 reduced ladies, 55 years of age, widows of officers in the army or navy, or of merchants." Endowment 3 "Widows, Society for the Relief of Distressed" 1823 " Dacre House, 5, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C." " To relieve poor distressed widows, within a month of husband's death, living within a 4 mile radius of the Office." "£898, expenditure £912" 349 Williams (Rev. Dr. Daniel) Charity 1716 " 14, Gordon Sq., W.C." " A Free Library of Theology, etc., Funds for assistance of Nonconformist ministers or their widows, Scholarships for students for the ministry. A school for girls in Wales. Books given to the poor." Wilson's Grammar School By Royal Charter 1615 " Camberwell. The School, Camberwell, S.E." " To educate boys residing in Camberwell. Age of admission, 8 years. Fees £12 for boys over 10 and £10 under 10 a year* (*Four Scholarships entitling to free education, etc, for three years, open to boys). Has Scholarships and Exhibitions of £30 per annum at places of Higher Education." £8600; Endowment £268 Twenty-one Scholars and Exhibitioners [-288-] Wilson's Loan Charity 1766 " Chamberlain's Office, Guildhall, E.C." " To lend sums of £100 and £300 to young tradesmen of City of London, or within five miles, at £1 per cent. for the first year, and £2 per cent. per annum, for the following four years." "£2951, expenditure £481" 25 "Women, Grosvenor Hospital for" 1866 rebuilt 1897 and 1904 " Vincent Square, Westminster" " The treatment as In- and Out-patients, of women suffering from diseases peculiar to their sex." "£2614, including payments by patients; expenditure £2934" "367 In-patients, and 1222 Out-patients" "Women, Chelsea Hospital for" 1871 " Arthur Street, Chelsea, S.W. Convalescent Home at St. Leonard's-on-Sea" " To treat diseases of women, gratuitously to the indigent, but small fees, proportionate to means of the patient, are expected from those who can afford it. Has 80 beds, of which 23 are occupied by some of the nursing and domestic staffs until the new Nurse's Home is built. 22 beds in Convalescent Home, not restricted to Hospital patients." "£7270, expenditure £7050" 877 In-patients; 3401 Out-patients "Women, New Hospital for" 1866 " 144, Euston Road, N.W." To afford poor women and children medical and surgical treatment by legally qualified women. "£6390, including £2214 from patients" "1194 In-patients, and 7832 Out-patients" "Women, Society for Promoting the Employment of" 1859 " 23, Berners St., W." " Assists, by advice, information, and loans for fees, the daughters of professional men, and others, to train for various professions and occupations, and helps them to get engagements when trained." £248 (for general purposes); £202 (for training fees) "40 learner, 94 under Special Fund" "Women, The Hospital for" 1842 " Soho Square, W." For the treatment of women suffering from diseases peculiar to their sex. "£6069, and Legacies £575" "1056 In-patients, and 3778 Out-patients" [-290-] Women's Holiday Fund 1895 " 76, Denison House, 1296, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.W." To send away for a short holiday hard-working and deserving women who require rest and change. Each applicant is expected to contribute according to her means. "£1107, expenditure £1357" 650 women Woodhall Spa Home for Invalid Gentlewomen 1894 " Home for Gentlewomen, Woodhall Spa, Lincs." To provide temporary rest and Spa treatment at a small charge for invalid ladies of limited means. 94 Worcestershire Society 1815 " Queen's Houses, Queen's Street, E.C." " To apprentice and pay Training College fees of children of poor parents, natives of Worcestershire, living in London or its vicinity, or in the country of Worcester." £71 Since founded 400 children have been apprenticed Work-Girls' (St. Mary's Girls' Club) 1884 " St. Mary's Girls' Club, Union St., Borough, S.E., and St. Mary's, Herne Bay" " To provide evening classes, amusements for working-girls, and Home of Rest." £487 "150 girls on rolls club, 53 inmates seaside home" "Working Girls, Soho Club and Home for" 1880 " 59, Greek Street, Soho Sq., W." " To provide instruction and social comforts for working girls, also lodging at a moderate charge for those engaged in business and for students." "From subs., dons., £17, Club fees, rents and for board, £570" "150 girls in the Club, 69 lodgers in the Home" World's Evangelical Alliance (British Organisation) 1846 " 19, Russell Sq., W.C." " Incorporated 1912. Is active in the promotion of co-operation and unity, the cause of religious liberty, the relief of persecuted Christians, the furtherance of united prayer, the maintenance of evangelical truth, and various enterprises of direct evangelistic work." "£5,558" Working Men's College 1854 " Crowndale Road, St. Pancras, N.W." To educate during their leisure evenings the working men of London at smallest possible cost. "£2333, expenditure £2728" 720 Working Men's Lord's Day Rest Association 1857 " 12, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C." To secure to the people Sunday as the day of rest. "£464, expenditure £524" Yarrow Home for Convalescent Children of the Better Class (The) (Now being used as a military hospital) 1895 " Broadstairs. Office, 6, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C." " A seaside home for convalescent children, whose parents are not in a position to pay the whole cost of the child's maintenance. Children of the lower classes are not eligible." "£850 from Parents. Interest upon investments, £3399" 503 [-292-] Yorkshire Society's School 1812 " 61, Westminster Bridge Road, S.E." " To maintain and educate boys born in Yorkshire, or one of whose parents was born there, and are now reduced by misfortune, or dead." "£1011, expenditure £1940" 35 boys Young Helpers' League (in connection with Dr. Barnardo's Homes : National Incorporated Association) 1892 " 18 to 26 Stepney Causeway, London, E." " A voluntary Union of young people and Senior Members, from happy homes all over the world to aid Crippled, Ailing, Incurable, Blind and Deaf and Dumb Children, who are Waifs or Destitute Orphans." "£25,431" "No. of Companions, 58,644" Young Men's Christian Association London (Central) 1844 " Tottenham Court Road, W., 186, Aldersgate St., E.C. 59-60, Cornhill, and Shaftesbury House, Margate.* (*There are 8584 Y.M.C.A. Centres throughout the world, with a membership of 1,100,530. The principal Holiday Homes are Hazelwood, Ryde - Shaftesbury House, Margate - Steine House, Brighton - Cairn House, Bournemouth - Crane House, Great Yarmouth)" " To provide for the fourfold natures of young men and to build up a virile type of manhood. Being inter-denominational it seeks to serve all the Churches, and non-political to foster good citizenship." "£28,790, expenditure £28,806" Innumerable. Memberships 3000-4000 "Young Women's Christian Association, London" 1855 " Office, 25 & 26, George St., Hanover Sq., W. Has 136 Branches in the Metropolis." " To establish boarding houses, institute, employment agencies, seaside homes, and to associate for mutual help, sympathy and instruction, young women of all classes - to promote their religious and moral well-being - and to afford protection to all who need it by various agencies." "Institutes, Homes and General Work for which Central Committee is financially responsible, £15,463" "Members and Associates 10,838; stayed in homes, 1648; used restaurants, 8605 daily; found employment, 5100" Zenana Bible and Medical Mission 1852 " 33, Surrey St., Strand, W.C." To make known the gospel of Christ to the Women of India. "£34,365, expenditure £36,978" "6771 Pupils; Patients attended, 22,476" Zenana and Home Mission Midwifery Training Fund 1880 " Kempshott House, Kempshott Rd., Streatham, S.W." " To give midwifery instruction to ladies, for missionary work abroad, and at home." About £177 About 1100 altogether