Toynbee Hall

Toynbee Hall circa 1902

Toynbee Hall is a building in Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London, and is the home to a charity of the same name. It works to bridge the gap between people of all social and financial backgrounds, with a focus on working towards a future without poverty.

It was the first university-affiliated institution of the world-wide Settlement movement; a reformist social agenda that strove to get the rich and poor to live more closely together in an interdependent community. Founded by Canon Samuel Barnett and Henrietta in 1884 on Commercial Street, it was named in memory of their friend and fellow reformer, Oxford historian Arnold Toynbee, who had died the previous year. Built specifically for the charity as a centre for social reform, it remains just as active today.

Building

The original building was designed by Elijah Hoole in vicarage-gothic style. The building was designated a Grade II listed building in 1973.[1][2] It was adjacent to the church of St Jude, Whitechapel, which is no longer there, and was on the site of a disused industrial school.[3]

The original structure was built as the first university settlement house of the settlement movement. Students from Oxford and Cambridge University lived there, to undertake social work in the deprived areas of the East End.[4] By 1900 there were over 100 settlements in the United States and across the UK. [5] and in 1911 the leaders of the social settlement movement founded the National Federation of Settlements.[6]

Toynbee Hall, with its Arts and Crafts features, among buildings in London's East End

Current activity

Today, Toynbee Hall provides a range of programmes and activities. Broadly broken down into: youth, the elderly, financial inclusion, debt, advice, free legal advice and community engagement.

Each year over 400 volunteers help to deliver the charity’s services.

In 2007 the Toynbee Studios opened in part of the building offering dance and media studios and a theatre.

People

Wardens

Chair of Trustees

Notable associated people

Associated organisations

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Toynbee Hall: The First Hundred Years by A. Briggs and A. Macartney, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1984, p. 1
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Details from image database (205906)". Images of England. accessed 8 August 2009
  3. ↑ Stewart Angas Weaver (1997). The Hammonds: A Marriage in History. Stanford University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-8047-3242-0.
  4. ↑ Article in the 'University Review' 919050, quoted in H. O. Barnett, op. cit., p.311
  5. ↑ National Federation of Settlements accessed 10 July 2013
  6. ↑ Social Welfare History website.
  7. ↑ Koven, Seth. "Barnett, Samuel Augustus". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30612. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ↑ Hope Hay Hewison (1989). Hedge of Wild Almonds: South Africa, the Pro-Boers & the Quaker Conscience, 1890-1910. James Currey Publishers. p. 373. ISBN 978-0-85255-031-1.
  9. ↑ Briggs, Asa. "Mallon, James Joseph". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34846. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ↑ Stanley Brice Frost (1 May 1984). McGill University: For the Advancement of Learning, Volume II, 1895-1971. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 209 note 14. ISBN 978-0-7735-6094-9.
  11. ↑ Moonman, Eric (6 September 2004). "Obituary: Walter Birmingham". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  12. ↑ Who Was Who, Oxford Index
  13. ↑ Gerald Grace (17 June 2013). Education and the City: Theory, History and Contemporary Practice. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-135-66876-1.
  14. ↑ Washbrook, David. "Elliott, Charles Alfred". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33004. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  15. ↑ Katherine Bentley Beauman (15 September 1996). Women and the Settlement Movement. The Radcliffe Press. pp. 199–. ISBN 978-1-86064-129-9.
  16. ↑ Toynbee Hall: the first hundred years, p. 155
  17. ↑ Heffer, Simon. "Profumo, John Dennis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/97107. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  18. ↑ ashoka.org, Board of Directors.
  19. ↑ toynbeehall.org.uk, Trustees.
  20. ↑ Social Service: A Quarterly Review, Volumes 27-28 (1953), p. 1: "For the Well-Being of Mankind, Lionel F. Ellis, c.v.o., c.b.e., d.s.o. Associate Warden, Toynbee Hall".
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