Minute book of the committee of the Western City Dispensary.
Western City DispensaryDeed of gift of Cook's Almshouses and conveyance of land in Stoke Newington to the West Hackney Almshouse.
West Hackney AlmshouseRecords of the Welcome Charitable Institute for Women and Girls, comprising minutes, reports, photographs and press cuttings and other administrative material.
Welcome Charitable Institute for Women and Girls x Welcome FellowshipMinute book of the War Refugees Committee, a charity aiding First World War refugees.
War Refugees Committee , charity aiding First World War refugeesAudio-visual collections of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), London, 1968-2005, comprising photographs, slides, videos, DVDs, CD-ROMs and audio tapes. Includes UNHCR audio visual presentations, 1981-1983; audio tapes of UNHCR seminars, radio broadcasts and recorded interviews relating to refugee and migration issues, 1981-2002; CD-ROMs, 1996-2001, including information on UNHCR, statements by the High Commissioner; Executive Committee papers; fundraising reports, evaluation and policy analysis and statistics. Educational packs on refugees produced by the UNHCR for schools, 1981-1983, comprising pamphlets, slides and audio tapes. VHS videos and DVDs, 1980-2005, chiefly produced by the UNHCR, on topics including the lives of refugees, conditions in war torn countries, appeal videos, the work of the UNHCR, environmental problems in and around refugee camps; music videos, child refugees, educational videos, asylum seekers in the UK, women refugees and training videos for UNHCR staff.
The UNHCR Photograph and Slide Library comprises slides and photographs produced by UNHCR, including of refugees in the Horn of Africa, 1980-2000; East Africa, 1980-1999; the African Great Lakes region, 1984-1997; West Africa, 1981-1999; Southern Africa, 1968-1994; North Africa, 1990-1998; Central Africa, 1981-1998; Nepal, 1992-1995; South East Asia, 1979-1999; Croatia, 1992; Macedonia, 1999, Albania, 1999; Azerbaijan, 1993-1994; the former Yugoslavia, 1991-1999; the former Soviet Union, 1986-2001; Central America, 1982-1997; Europe and the USA, 1961-1996; Afghan refugees in Iran, Europe and Pakistan, 1979-2002; Indochinese refugees in South East Asia, 1984-1993; Iranian, Iraqi and Kurdish refugees; Bosnian refugees in Yugoslavia, Slovenia and Croatia, 1992-1998; Chechen and Georgian refugees in the Russian Federation, 1996-2000; refugees from Tajikistan, 1995; Kosovar refugees, 1991-1999; UNHRC photo series of refugees in Africa, 1970; elderly refugees in Cambodia, 1982; child refugees in Senegal; women refugees, 1988-2002 and photographs used for UNHCR campaigns and events including the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless, 1987; UNHCR fiftieth anniversary, 2000 and a UK poster campaign.
UNHCR , United Nations High Commission for Refugees x United Nations High Commission for RefugeesRecords of Bedfont and Bagshot Turnpike Trust, 1763-1850, including minutes; financial accounts; grants of land; correspondence; reports and Acts of Parliament.
Records of Colnbrook Turnpike Trust, 1728-1871, including minutes; financial accounts; assignments; leases of tolls; conveyanves and other deeds; plans; correspondence; bonds and Acts of Parliament.
Minutes of the Hampton and Staines Turnpike Trust, 1826-1859.
Bedfont and Bagshot Turnpike Trust Colnbrook Turnpike Trust Hampton and Staines Turnpike TrustRecords of the Turner Exhibition Fund, an educational charity, including papers of the governors of the fund; reports; applications for exhibitions; registers of awards made; correspondence; copies of the Charity Commissioners' schemes; financial accounts and history of the fund.
Turner Exhibition Fund , educational charity Turner's Free School , City of LondonRecords of Toynbee Hall university settlement, including Education Committee minutes; Residents Meetings minutes; correspondence; annual reports; financial reports; memorandum and articles of association; educational syllabuses and evening courses; papers of clubs and societies; visitors' books; press cuttings; magazines; pamphlets; plans; photographs and slides.
Toynbee HallRecords of the Tower Hill Improvement Trust, including minutes, accounts, correspondence, plans and photographs. The archive includes records of other organisations (Choral Foundation Appeal, St Katharine's Community Project, Port of London Authority) which may have become part of the Trust's archive because the Secretary or another official of the Trust also had an active role in other organisations.
Tower Hill Improvement Fund x Tower Hill Improvement Trust x Tower Hill TrustAccounts book for Tottenham School of Industry.
Tottenham School of IndustryRecords of the Thomas Martyn Foundation, including minutes of the trustees 1716-1972; correspondence 1887-1939, 1955-1977; accounts 1863-1893, 1904-1947; copy will of Thomas Martyn; reports on the school 1883-1909; apprenticeship register and indentures, 1878-1932; pupils' birth certificates; exhibition items; printed material and photographs.
Thomas Martyn Foundation , charity supporting the children of watermenRecords of the Swiss Benevolent Society including statutes and regulations, annual reports, minutes, membership records, registers and case files of grant recipients, financial records including legacies, property records relating to the Society's offices and Hendon Cemetery grave plots, printed material and publications. The collection also contains records of related Swiss charity organisations.
Swiss Benevolent Society xx Fonds de Secours pour les Suisses Pauvres a LondresRecords of the Surrey Dispensary, Southwark, including rules and regulations; minutes of the Governing Committee; minutes of the Court and Committees; House Visitor's books; subscription books; registers of patients admitted; registers of patients visited at home; annual reports; leases; correspondence files; financial accounts and insurance policies.
Surrey Dispensary , SouthwarkRecords of the St Botolph Aldgate Union Fund apprenticeship charity, comprising Management Committee minutes; statements of accounts; and apprenticeship indentures.
St Botolph Aldgate Union Fund , apprenticeship charityRecords of the St Botolph Aldgate Parochial School, later the Sir John Cass Junior School. The surviving records of the parish school begin in 1729 (Ms 31138). These include minutes, accounts, reports, correspondence, admission registers and title deeds. Separate pupil records exist from 1896 only.
St Botolph Aldgate Parochial School Sir John Cass Junior SchoolRecords of St Alphage Society comprising minutes 1782-1940 and agendas 1925-40 (Mss 7021, 10479); financial records 1800-1940 (Mss 7022, 10481, 18917); admissions register 1903-38 (Ms 10480); copy will of James White dated 1794 (Ms 7023); vouchers and correspondence 1880-1940 and counsel's opinion 1903 (Ms 10482-3); list of officers and subscribers 1891, and histories of the Society 1907 and 1910 (Ms 18917).
St Alphage Society , educational charityRecords of the Samuel Lewis Housing Trust and the The Women's Housing Trust, including records of Samuel and Ada Lewis including property records and records of other trusts and societies with which they were involved. There are also oral history tapes and papers relating to the project undertaken in 2001 for the centenary celebration.
Samuel Lewis Housing Trust The Women's Housing Trust Southern Housing GroupRecords of the Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor, 1872-1980. The collection includes minute books of the general and other committees, and many account books, although there is little material which relates to the early days of the charity. There is a large amount of correspondence relating to all aspects of work of the charity.
Soup Kitchen for the Jewish PoorThe collection comprises administrative records, including: minutes, agenda and reports for meetings of the Society's General Committee (1884-1915), trustees (1915-1990), House/Western Lodge Committee (1920-1961), Executive and Finance Committee (1915-1925) and Western Asylum Sub-Committee (1843-1848); annual reports and accounts; trust deeds for the Society's funds and property; staff agreements and contracts; secretaries' letter books and correspondence files; 19th century papers and correspondence relating to the administration of the society, premises, bequests and staff; subject files on the administration of the Society, events, finance, fundraising, premises, staff and the history of the Society; and visitor books.
Records relating to residents at Western Lodge and the Society's other Asylums, including: censuses of admission; admission papers; admission and resident registers; reports on residents; index cards; rules and regulations; and menu books.
Financial records for the Society, including: balance sheets and accounts; a ledger used to compile the accounts; notes on the accounts; ledgers; audit books; cash books; donation books; board and lodging receipt books; returns of monies received and paid by the Superintendent; and a set of accounts paid by the Finance Committee in the 1820s and 1830s.
Property records including deeds, tenancy agreements and inventories of Western Lodge.
Society for the Relief of the Houseless Poor x Western Lodge x Nightly Shelter for the Houseless Poor x Association for the Relief of the Houseless Poor x Houseless Poor SocietyRecords of the Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small Debts, including minutes; extracts of proceedings; Acts of Parliament; papers concerning J C Neild; financial accounts including legacy books, income books, general expenditure books, annual accounts and auditor's reports; papers regarding the disposal of surplus funds; bequests; press cuttings; correspondence; and histories of the Society.
The minutes contain reports of visits of inspection as well as names and numbers of prisoners assisted. A number of the papers relate to the destruction of the book containing the minutes and accounts of the Society 4 Mar 1818 to 5 Apr 1826 by John Camden Neild, treasurer 1814-1827.
Society for the Relief of Persons Confined for Small DebtsRecords of the Society for the Relief of Distress, including minutes; reports; annual reports; financial accounts including papers relating to appeals, subscribers and donors; correspondence; and a scrapbook.
Society for the Relief of DistressPapers of the Society for the Benefit of the Widows of the Clergy, comprising petitions to the Society and letters patent.
Society for the Benefit of the Widows of the ClergyMinute book, letter book containing copies of letters sent to parliament and letters received, copies of petitions, lists of MPs whose constituencies have sent petitions and printed matter.
Society for Endeavouring to Obtain the Abolition of the Legacy Duty on Bequests to Hospitals and other Charitable InstitutionsCollection of documents relating to schools in the City of London, including:
- account of the Society who founded the charity school in Red Cross Street, 1690-1742;
- copy of an examinations paper on Dickens' "Pickwick Papers", 1857;
- collection of letters relating to the City of London School, 1843-1851;
- orders for Christ's Hospital school, 1678;
- papers relating to legal proceedings brought against the Tower Ward School, 1881-1884;
- address to the Drapers' Company from William Boreman's Charity School, 17--.
Records of the Sir John Cass Technical Institute, managed by Sir John Cass's Foundation. The records are mostly ledgers and accounts, with some notes and plans.
Sir John Cass's Foundation , Sir John Cass Technical InstituteRecords of Sion Hospital, including minutes, lists of trustees and pensioners, deeds and legal papers, accounts, correspondence, and related items.
Sion Hospital , charity for pensionersBroadsheet announcing sermon at Oxford Chapel by Reverend John Bond for benefit of the St Marylebone Charity School, 27 May 1810.
St Marylebone Charity SchoolRecords of Hornsey Parochial Charities, including Chair's minutes and agendas; Trustees minutes; reports; financial accounts; property registers; rent demands; charity schemes; conveyances; gifts and legacies; correspondence; valuations of investments, and other administrative papers.
Hornsey Parochial CharitiesRecords of the Saint Giles in the Fields Parochial Charities, including minutes, accounts, cash books and receipts, reports, and correspondence. Includes registers of applicants for outpensioners and almswomen (1907-1934), Medical Register, Infants (1910-1914), Register of scholars (1882-1917), School Admission Registers (1884-1913) and School Log books (1862-1935) and Journals.
St Giles in the Fields Parochial CharitiesRecords of the Ruislip Cottagers Allotments Charity, including minutes, leases, correspondence and accounts.
Ruislip Cottagers Allotments CharityRecords of the Royal Scottish Corporation, comprising copy charters, byelaws and grant of arms (Ms 35760); minutes and related papers 1831-1834, 1877-1990 (Ms 35761-4); annual reports and accounts and other financial records 1935-2002 (Ms 35765-72); correspondence 1936-1993 (Ms 35773-80); seal register 1935-1992 (Ms 35781); papers re subscribers and legacies 1894-1969 (Ms 35782-5); papers re festival dinners 1820, 1906-1998 (Ms 35786-90); papers re St Andrews Soldiers' Home 1914-72 and St Andrews Scottish Soldiers' Club Fund 1980 (Ms 35791); correspondence re the London Scottish Regiment War Memorial Fund 1957-62 (Ms 35792); minutes, financial papers and register of pension payments of the Kinloch Bequest 1877-1992 (Ms 35793-801); minutes, financial records and correspondence of the Freer Trust 1915-62 (Ms 35802-8); correspondence relating to the hall, property and insurances 1864-1988 (Ms 35809-10); and press cuttings and miscellaneous items 1829-1995 (Ms 35811-2).
Please note that access to some financial records less than 30 years old is restricted. Access to records less than 50 years old which contain personal information is also restricted. 24 hours notice is required for access to all the records.
Royal Scottish CorporationRecords of the Royal Caledonian Education Trust from its inception, including records of the Royal Caledonian Asylum and School LMA/4710/D, the Gaelic Chapel LMA/4710/E, the Society of Old Caledonians LMA/4710/F, including copies of the groups magazines. Also includes Records of Governance LMA/4710/A including Court of Governors and Directors minutes, Finance records LMA/4710/B and early accounts, as well as records of early subscribers to the school; Records of Administration LMA/4710/C these include the Secretary’s correspondence and the main series of registers of petitions and admissions of the pupils to both the Asylum and School dating from 1819; Records of the Asylum and School, including class registers, log books and reports of the school staff (Headmaster, Matron, School Mistress and Medical Officer) . There are also a large series of photographs of pupils and school events as well as a series of scrap book and press cuttings covering school events, Clan days and sports days and the Caledonian Ball.
Royal Caledonian Education Trust xx Royal Caledonian SchoolRecords of the Royal Association for Deaf People. The collection contains a wealth of information relating to the development of work with Deaf people over the 19th and 20th centuries in London and south-east England, including relief of the necessitous poor in the 19th century, the establishment of Deaf church communities from the 1880s and the early promotion of Sign Language as a recognised form of communication in the 1850s by Reverend Samuel Smith.
The records include:
Corporate records (LMA/4172/A) in relation to the Association's Trustee Committee, Standing Subcommittee, Executive Committee, Building Committee, Spiritual Subcommittee, Personnel Committee, Property and Personnel Sub-Committee, Finance and Fund Raising Committee, Public Relations Subcommittee, secretary's correspondence, annual reports, agreements, permanent year end papers, annual general meetings, Board of Trustees papers, and Essex Deaf Council.
Financial and Staff records (LMA/4172/B) consisting of accounts, legacies, salaries and expenses, and Staff meetings Minutes, and administration.
Records of Saint Faith's Home (LMA/4172/C) consisting of minutes of the Management Committee, accounts, and registration.
Branch and Mission Church records (LMA/4172/D) in relation to Croydon Branch, Saint Barnabus Church in Lerwisham, Saint Matthews Mission and Saint Paul's Hall in Walworth, Woolwich Deaf and Dumb Mission in Beresford Square, Saint Bedes in Lambeth, All Saints in Croydon, Saint Saviours Chapel on Oxford Street, Saint John of Beverely on Green Lane, All Saints in West Ham, and Saint Cedd in Romford.
Printed Material and photographs (LMA/4172/E) consisting of press cuttings, magazines and newsletters, events material and talks, photographs, posters/leaflets and advertising material, staff resources, and historical notes.
Audio-visual records (LMA/4172/F) consisting of videos and audio cassettes.
Electronic records (LMA/4172/G) consisting of documents saved on a CD.
Property records (LMA/4172/H) in relation to 120 Selhurst Road in Croydon, 26 Harold Road in Essex, and 4 The Drive in Middlesex.
Royal Association for Deaf People x RAD , Royal Association for Deaf People Royal Association in aid of the Deaf and Dumb x RADD , Royal Association in aid of the Deaf and DumbPapers of Rotherhithe Charity School, comprising vouchers, subscription lists, and financial accounts of the Treasurer and Schoolmaster.
From these documents it would appear that subscriptions were collected and the schoolmaster's accounts submitted quarterly, and the treasurer's account made up from these and other documents half-yearly. Though some of the vouchers relate to the schoolmaster's accounts, others presumably belong to treasurer's accounts no longer extant; all have been placed in quarterly bundles, since conclusive evidence on the original arrangement is lacking.
Rotherhithe Charity SchoolThe records within this section comprise those items which do not technically belong within the United Synagogue or its member synagogues or related charities and societies. They consist largely of trading accounts of various Jewish merchants, and accounts of the Beth Hamedrash, Chief Rabbi and small Jewish bodies.
PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.
VariousPapers of the Robinson and Ramsay families, including deeds for Worton House and other lands in Isleworth, Twickenham and Hounslow; a deed of trust for the Robinson Charity, Isleworth; and deeds for Robson family property in Marylebone and Bray, Berkshire.
Robinson , family , of IsleworthPapers of the Refugee Council relating to all aspects of refugee history, policy and practice, both in the UK and worldwide, from the 1950s to the time of writing. The collection comprises published books and journals, published and unpublished articles and reports; conference papers; pamphlets and leaflets; newsletters, research papers including interviews, questionnaires and case studies; field reports; working papers; statistical data; press cuttings; bibliographies and audio-visual resources including videos, DVDs, tapes, CDs, multi media CD-ROMs, photographs and slides. Topics include conditions in the countries of origin of refugees; causes of flight; migration; asylum; assistance and relief programmes; adaptation and integration of refugees into new communities; groups including ethnic groups, religious groups, gender groups, age groups, social class and family; and organisations including intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations.
Refugee Council x British Refugee CouncilRecords of charity The Ranyard Mission and Ranyard Nurses, comprising Council minutes; Finance Committee minutes; Executive Committee minutes; registers of nurses; annual reports; correspondence; booklets, pamphlets and magazines; accounts of the Mission; speeches; photographs; badges; and papers relating to Special Funds.
The Ranyard Mission and Ranyard Nurses The London Bible and Domestic Female Mission x London Biblewomen and Nurses MissionRecords of the Queen Adelaide Fund, including letter books, financial accounts, minutes, and history of the Fund.
Watch and Clock Makers' Pension SocietyMinute book and an account book for the Poors Piece Charity, Hanwell.
Poors Piece Charity , HanwellRecords of the Pilgrim Trust, including minutes of Trustees meetings; financial records; papers of the Secretary; correspondence; annual reports; publications; annual accounts; ledgers; cash books; grant payment books; and grant files relating to art and learning, countryside preservation, ecclesiastical preservations, secular preservation and social welfare.
Pilgrim TrustRecords of the Pentonville Charity School, comprising minute book of Committee meetings; report and notes on the school and ticket for coal.
Pentonville Charity SchoolPapers of the Northern Refugee Centre, from 1983 to the time of writing, chiefly comprising files arranged by country containing material on refugees including: pamphlets and leaflets, published and unpublished reports, offprints of articles, press cuttings, newsletters and press releases. The collection also comprises annual reports from other refugee organisations and published material on refugees.
Northern Refugee CentreRecords of the Nightingale Fund Council, including deeds of trust; minutes; correspondence; annual reports; papers relating to St Thomas's Hospital; regulations; financial accounts; fundraising accounts; agreements; registers, prospectuses and syllabi of the Nightingale Training School; papers relating to the registration of nurses and nursing in general.
Also papers of the City Auxiliary Committee of the Nightingale Fund, comprising minutes, correspondence and accounts; and papers of Albert Venn Dicey (a jurist and Professor of Law at Oxford).
Nightingale Fund CouncilRecords of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO), formerly the National Council of Social Service, (NCSS). This is a large archive and one of great interest to those studying both charities and their development and the changing attitudes and ideas of voluntary aid from the early 20th century.
Internal Services records consist of the main series of minutes of NCSS/NCVO committees, Interdepartmental groups, Members' groups and Associated Bodies, regional and central organisation and the histories of various NCSS/NCVO departments. There are also short series of financial material, legal material and documentation from the Advice Unit and Rural Department of the NCVO.
The Membership Division records cover policy and the Research Department while the Public Affairs Division contains the National/International and Overseas Departments, the Press and Parliamentary sections including the Information Department and one of the largest series, that of publications.
National Council of Voluntary Organisations x National Council of Social ServiceRecords of the National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clock Makers since 1916; and the archives of the three predecessor institutions, the Watch and Clock Makers' Benevolent Institution, the Watch and Clock Makers' Pension Society and the Clock and Watch Makers' Asylum. The records comprise annual reports and accounts, financial records, minutes, correspondence and related papers. Also one volume of an earlier benevolent society active in London from 1767 at least, the Society of Clock and Watch makers.
National Benevolent Society of Watch and Clock MakersRecords of Morden College, Blackheath, including correspondence, financial statements, and papers relating to a dispute with the Charity Commissioners.
Morden College , BlackheathRecords of the Mitchell City of London Charity and Educational Foundation comprising Charity Commission schemes 1900-6, 1956 (Ms 24503); agendas and minutes 1931-60 (Ms 24504-7); annual statements of accounts 1932-68 (Ms 24508); out-letter book 1901-24 (Ms 24509); register of assignments of tenancies of Foundation properties ca. 1905-63 (Ms 24510); deeds and correspondence re Foundation properties 1828-1953 (Ms 24511-19); microfilm of deeds of Foundation properties 1895-1906 as at 1941 (Ms 24520).
The Mitchell City of London Charity Mitchell City of London Educational Foundation Mitchell City of London Charity and Educational FoundationRecords of the Middlesex Victoria Fund, a charity for the aid of discharged prisoners, including minutes; rules of the fund; reports of the Trustees; papers relating to grants to individuals and organisations; correspondence; and financial records.
Middlesex Victoria Fund , charity for the aid of prisonersRecords of the Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund. The archive comprises: minutes and meetings papers of the Council, annual general meetings and various committees, 1872-1984 (Mss 30585, 30587-94); annual reports and accounts, 1873-1994 (Ms 30586); other financial records, 1934/5 (Ms 30595); correspondence and papers, including papers concerning bequests, 1871-ca 1989 (Ms 30596-609, 616); posters (Ms 30610); and photographs with associated papers, 1959-95 (Ms 30611-15).
Metropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund