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Toynbee Hall works alongside people facing poverty and injustice to build a fairer and happier East London. Based in the East End of London since 1884, we are a charity that provides vital support and works in partnership with local communities to tackle unfairness and ensure everyone has an equal chance to thrive.
Toynbee Hall is a charitable institution that works to address the causes and impacts of poverty in the East End of London and elsewhere.
Toynbee Hall - A Pioneering Settlement House in London's East End 1874-2015. Share this page. Since 1884, Toynbee Hall has been a catalyst for social change and has worked on the frontline in the struggle against poverty.
Based in the East End of London since 1884, Toynbee Hall is a charity working alongside people facing poverty, injustice, and inequality to build a fairer East London. We provide vital advice and support, working in partnership to tackle unfairness and ensure everyone has an equal chance to thrive.
Our History. Toynbee Hall was created in 1884 by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. Samuel was a Church of England vicar, and Henrietta was a teacher, philanthropist and social activist.
Toynbee Hall, pioneering social settlement in the East End of London. It was founded on Commercial Street, Whitechapel (now in Tower Hamlets), in 1884 by the canon Samuel Augustus Barnett and named for the 19th-century English social reformer Arnold Toynbee.
Jan 31, 2019 · Toynbee Hall in the 21st century. By the Survey of London, on 31 January 2019. Toynbee Hall is currently undergoing a transformation of its buildings, but the 135 years that it has stood on Commercial Street, Whitechapel, have seen constant change and evolution.
Toynbee Hall. Founder of Toynbee Hall: Henrietta Barnett. The History of Toynbee Hall – A Timeline. “ I find much to justify hope that, if not in our time, in some time, the forces at work will make a happier and better East London." Samuel Barnett. More stories. Bangladeshi Innovators at Toynbee Hall. Read. Icons of Toynbee Hall: John Profumo.
Toynbee Hall continues to tackle the causes and impacts of inequality here in East London, and further afield. We offer high quality, timely services, informed and shaped by the experiences of the people we work with.
In the summer of 1887, the American, Jane Addams (1860-1935) read about the work being done to combat poverty in London at the Settlement Houses and was inspired to visit Toynbee Hall.
