Subjects  |  Social Welfare

League of Jewish Women

Group, Community / Clubs, Religion, Social Welfare

Leathermarket JMB

Leathemarket JMB is Southwark’s largest resident-managed housing organisation. managing 1500 homes in Borough and Bermondsey between London Bridge and Tower Bridge.

Group, Property, Social Welfare

Morris Leivesley

54 years secretary of the Foundling Hospital.

Person, Social Welfare

Leysian Mission

From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...

Group, Religion, Social Welfare

Mr W. J. Lobjoit

Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

London Irish Centre

The charity provides care, culture and community to the Irish across London, working from the iconic London Irish Centre in Camden Town.

Group, Community / Clubs, Social Welfare, Ireland

Katherine Low Settlement

A charity founded as part of the settlement movement, in tribute to philanthropist Katherine Mackay Low who had died the year before. It supports after-school projects and a youth club for young pe...

Group, Social Welfare

Vernon Lushington

Born London. Lawyer and positivist. Supporter of many social causes. He introduced Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Edward Byrne-Jones. Died 36 Kensington Square.

Person, Law, Social Welfare

Margaret Ethel MacDonald

Feminist and social reformer. Daughter of John & Margaret Gladstone. Born 17 Pembridge Square, her mother dying soon after. Brought up to do good works, she became a socialist, joined the Labou...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

Mrs Mallet

Concerned for the poor of Lambeth and was a district visitor in 1864 trying to identify families in need. She organized a refuge for women and then started to prepare penny dinners. She also ran mo...

Person, Gender Issues, Social Welfare