| Biography | Started in 1866 as the National Office of Institutions for Women and Girls of Good Character, by Mrs Goode, Wife of the Dean of Ripon. It's object was to promote female welfare by providing knowledge of institutions for women and girls of good character. A register was kept of these institutions, such as homes for incurables and girls' industrial schools. A register of vacancies was centrally keptand the society informed institutions of applicants hoping for admission. It also later helped to find situations for their inmates on leaving and sold items from the homes at the office. The title of the National office was changed to the Society for Promoting Female Welfare in 1872 when men as well as women were admitted.
'This Society, under the patronage of HRH the Duchess of Connaught, interests itself in all kinds of charities, industrial, educational, benevolent and missionary, which are designed to promote the welfare of women, and undertakes to furnish every information to subscribers and the public as to the working, the terms of admission, existing vacancies, &c., in the institutions accociated with it. A depot is kept for the sale of ladies' work, and an annual bazaar is held in the Royal Albert Hall for disposal of work sent in from the Work Societies in union with the office. Secretary Miss Hutchinson.' |