Annual Report 2006-07

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Our Mission Contents
Toynbee Hall produces practical innovative programmes to meet the About Toynbee Hall 4
needs of local people, improve conditions and enable communities to
fulfil theirpotential. Message from the Chairman and Chief Executive 5

We make a difference by developing local programmes that have the New projects started 6
power to become national solutions. Young People & Families 6
Getting Verbal
Creating Assets
Live Music Now

Our Values Adult Advice and Education

Safe Futures
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Older People 8
Link Age Plus
• We work with local people to improve conditions.
Ongoing projects 9
• We place volunteers at the heart of our work, providing the best Young People and Families 9
of experiences. Oxford Days
• We create opportunities for the development of local people and staff. Gilwell Days
Adult Advice and Education 10
• We deliver a standard of excellence in the practical innovative
programmes provided. SAFE
Capitalise
• We pioneer research to enable our local programmes of action
Transact
to become national solutions.
Safe Exit
• We develop networks for positive change. Safe Exit Diversion Scheme
• To be a financially sustainable organisation, both in the short Deesha English Classes
and long term. Free Legal Advice Centre
Older People 18
Day Care Centre
Charity Shop
Surma Bangladeshi Pensioners’ Club
Barnett Research Centre 20
Volunteering 21
List of volunteers

Future projects 24
Young People and Families 24
Aspire
V
Just Text
Trace
Adult Advice and Education 25
Deesha Women’s Volunteer
and Training Project
Older People 25
Elder Abuse

Financial Information 26

List of donors 28

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 About Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall produces practical, innovative programmes for young people and families,
adults and older people, to meet the needs of local residents, improve conditions and
enable communities to fulfil their potential.
Based in Tower Hamlets in the East End of London, Toynbee Hall makes a difference by
producing local programmes that have the power to become national solutions, with a
constant and ongoing commitment to the development of social policy and networks for
positive change.
Tower Hamlets continues to be one of the most deprived areas in the country and
Toynbee Hall works with over 6,000 members of the community each year to support
them to meet the challenges that they face and to encourage them to take control of
their lives.
Each year, over 400 volunteers, some of whom are residents, bring their expertise to the
services that Toynbee Hall offers. We place volunteers at the heart of our work, always
ensuring that we offer excellent opportunities for them to meet their personal goals and
develop their own skills and networks.
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Message from the Chairman and Chief Executive
The voluntary sector continues to become ever more complex and ever more professional.
As a political consensus about using charities to deliver services develops, instead of
grants being negotiated by fundraisers we increasingly see contracts being negotiated
by lawyers. With an interest in venture philanthropy and more opportunities for funding
from the “new rich” in the City and elsewhere, there is an increased focus on value for
money and measurable impact. And as the public and the charity commission demand
more accountability from charities our duty to report on our work becomes more oner-
ous. Toynbee Hall is meeting all of these challenges and in the 2006-2007 Financial Year
we continued to show that our model as a multi-purpose organisation can continue to
thrive in this environment.
As you will see from reading the Annual Report, along with our partners we have been
making a great success of Capitalise, London’s debt advice partnership. Toynbee Hall
is the lead partner in this contract with the Department of Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform to provide face to face crisis debt advice across London, and the
project was launched within the year and is achieving great results. We hope to secure
further funding for the project in 2007-2008.
Work has continued in transforming our young people’s programme so that it meets the
needs of young people living in the East End of London today. Working with this group of
people can be challenging but success can have such a positive and long lasting effect.
Toynbee Hall has a long record of delivering for young people and in future years I’m
sure that we’ll be able to report on still more success.
Other work that has continued this year includes the free legal advice centre (now in it’s
110th year!), Safe Exit and the Safe Exit Diversion scheme, our fantastic work with older
people, including those in the local Bangladeshi community and the ongoing work in
financial inclusion through SAFE and Transact.
All of this effective and vital work is only possible because of the Toynbee Hall infrastruc-
ture which allows disparate projects at different stages in their
development to sit comfortably alongside one another. This
year we have seen the first step toward the sustainabil-
ity of the charity and the projects by recording a
surplus for the year; this isn’t an anomaly, it’s the
beginning of a trend. The three year business
plan agreed by Trustees at the end of the year
under review ensures that we will meet the
future with confidence.
Christopher Coombe
Chairman
Luke Geoghegan
Chief Executive
New Projects Started
Young People and Families
Getting Verbal
This music project, started in November 2006, aimed to engage 50 young people from
year 6 identified by their teachers as at risk of having difficulties during the transition
period from primary to secondary school. The three stages – think, express and achieve
– encouraged them to explore the art of sound and celebrate their achievements through
a finale concert.
Key achievements
• 24 core participants, aged 10 and 11, from Harry Gosling and
Marion Richardson Schools.
• An additional 100 students participated in the final showcase event.
• Successful partnerships made with the Sonic Postcards project,
Point Blank studios and London Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Volunteers involved: 5
Future developments and outlook
The project will continue into 2007-08 with additional new partners running some of
the workshops.
Daniel, year 6 participant
Daniel was chosen for Getting Verbal due to his lack of confidence and self esteem when
he was without his best friend. Before the project, Daniel could socialise with children who
were much younger than him, but would often shy away from the more confident of his
peers. He would opt to work alone or with his best friend rather than work in a small group.
He would act inappropriately at times and often showed a significant difference in maturi-
ty compared to others in the class. He would often get upset and cry over small incidents
and didn’t have the confidence to confront situations and deal with them appropriately.
Once he started the project Daniel showed a keen interest even though his best
friend wasn’t attending. He started to work in pairs and slowly built up the con-
fidence to socialise with others. Giving him a project to focus on gave him
a common interest with his partner, making it easy for him to start con-
versation and suggest ideas.
Daniel suffered family problems during the project which meant
his family moved to temporary accommodation an hour away
from school. However, due to the noticeable impact the project
was having on him, his parents decided that he should contin-
ue the project.
At the end of the project Daniel had made noticeable improve-
ments in his social skills and confidence. He started to interact
with others in his year group and even appropriately dealt with a
problem he had with one of his peers. He was looking forward to
starting secondary school and said he would look out for the pupils
involved in the Toynbee Hall project.
Cheryl Butler, year 6 Teacher
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New Projects Started
Creating Assets
Funded by the Citigroup Foundation, Creating Assets aimed to deliver financial educa-
tion through the arts. The weekly workshops covered money related subjects such as
planning ahead, peer pressures, saving, shopping around and how to become a social
entrepreneur.
Through drama workshops the girls’ group wrote stories that inspired storyboard paint-
ings by professional artist and Toynbee Hall’s Arts Projects Volunteer Co-ordinator, Anna
Aapola. Led by professional music producer AJ Kwame, the boys created lyrics and
melodies and produced their final tracks in a professional music studio.
Key achievements
• 17 participants, aged 13 to 19, drawn from Bethnal Green’s Wessex Centre
for Bangladeshi young women and Toynbee Hall’s Young Leaders group.
• Each participant opened her/his own credit union account.
• The project artworks were showcased at the Citigroup Tower in Canary Wharf.
Volunteers involved: 3
Future developments and outlook
Toynbee Hall has developed Aspire, a modular programme for young people in second-
ary school. The ‘Express’ module in the Aspire programme is a direct development of
the Creating Assets pilot project and has been funded by the Citigroup Foundation.
Financial capability is one of the outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda and
Toynbee Hall will seek to develop its work in this area with young people.
Live Music Now
This three-week taster project aimed to promote involvement
in music and provide an inspirational experience for the
groups.
Key achievements
• 40 participants, aged 7 to 70, including
Bangladeshi girls from the local
Brownies, boys and girls from Harry
Gosling and Christ Church primary
schools and older people from
Toynbee Hall’s Day Care Centre.
• Successful partnership working with
Live Music Now, Battery Percussion
and two professional musicians.
• 3-minute opera performance to Carmen
with a professional singer and pianist.
Volunteers involved: 5
Future developments and outlook
Toynbee Hall is launching an arts internship programme
led by Anna Aapola. The arts internship will develop newly
graduated artists and students who are seeking careers in community arts and
education as well as benefiting a range of beneficiaries across Toynbee Hall’s projects.
New Projects Started
Adult Advice and Education
Safe Futures
In 2006 Toynbee Hall was awarded a grant from the Department for Work and Pensions
(DWP) to run a pensions education project for the staff of small and medium sized volun-
tary sector organisations across London.
Aiming to raise awareness of options surrounding pensions and savings amongst low
paid workers, the project offers a free information, training and support service to all
people in their workplace to increase people’s understanding and financial capability to
make informed choices about pension options. Safe Futures aims particularly to reach
women and ethnic minority workers.
Key achievements
• 698 organisations took up the service.
• 269 individuals benefited from a one to one session.
Volunteers involved: 2
Future developments and outlook
This project runs until February 2008 with service provision winding up in late 2007.
‘I never knew how they (pensions) really worked, but now I feel better informed.’
N, aged 50
‘I’m 63 and still working. I didn’t expect to be still working but I don’t have enough
money to pay my bills and I thought the state pension would be enough. It isn’t.’
T, aged 63
Older People
Link Age Plus
Link Age Plus is a Government initiated pilot programme, funded by the Department of
Work and Pensions (DWP), to tackle social exclusion among people aged 50 plus and
particularly those who are ‘harder to reach’, such as frailer people and people from
minority communities. There are eight Link Age Plus pilots running across the country
and Tower Hamlets is the only London borough involved. Toynbee Hall is one of five
Network Centres in the borough.
Key achievements
• Initiation of the project in early March 2007.
• Successful recruitment of 2 project workers.
Volunteers involved: 0
Future developments and outlook
We aim to attract over 800 attendees per quarter. Development will include increased
outreach to local people aged over 50 to raise awareness of what is on offer at local
organisations and the introduction of new activities at Toynbee Hall’s Day Care Centre
and Surma Bangladeshi Pensioner’s Club, including reflexology sessions, coffee
mornings and participation in the UK’s Older People Day.
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Young People and Families
Oxford Days
This aspect of the Young People and Families team’s work has been an annual fixture
since the 1980s. The day trips aim to help young people find out about what university
life is really like, meet lecturers and students as positive role models and show the
opportunities higher education can offer. The days involved a visit to Keble College at
Oxford University to take part in a physics lecture and a tour of the town and campus.
Key achievements
Ongoing projects
• 111 particpants, aged 10 and 11, from Ben Jonson and Thomas Buxton schools.
• A ‘graduation’ celebration at Oxford University.
Volunteers involved: 4
Future developments and outlook
Raising the aspirations of children, young people and their families continues to be a
priority for Toynbee Hall. The Oxford Days provide an opportunity for young people to
see another side of life and create new dreams for themselves. In the coming year
Toynbee Hall will seek to work closely with colleges in Oxford in order to benefit children
and young people.
Gilwell Days
Started in the 1980s, trips to Gilwell are another long running aspect of the Young
People and Families programme. The objective remains the same today: to offer young
people with few advantages the opportunity to experience new outdoor activities and
challenges that motivate, raise self-esteem and serve to divert young people from crime.
Activities this year included: swimming, conservation workshops, team challenges and
games, rock climbing, archery, campfires, pedal-karting, orienteering, shelter building, art,
bug hunting, and daily chores.
Key achievements
• 5 Gilwell days took place this spring between
February and April at Gilwell Park Scout Campsite
in Epping Forest.
• 157 participants, aged 10 to12, and
21 teachers participated from five
primary schools. (57% of the young
people that participated qualified for
free school meals.)
• Five partners supported the
programme: the Metropolitan Police,
Gilwell Park, Epping Forest
Conservation Trust, Lincoln College,
and Bancroft’s School.
Volunteers involved: 40
Future developments and outlook
In 2007 this project will be renamed E1 Active.
Following the structure of previous trips, 250 pri-
mary school children from Tower Hamlets will have the
opportunity to spend a day in the countryside with their
teachers and classmates trying new and exciting outdoor
activities in June and July.
‘I had sooo much fun at Gilwell, I can’t wait to go back.’ child
‘Seeing the sun set over the lake is my favourite memory.’ child
 Adult Advice and Education
SAFE (Services Against Financial Exclusion)
This year SAFE has developed its financial education and advice provision and made
links with a range of new organisations, including HM Prison Wandsworth where the
Barclays funded project worker has developed training programmes for prisoners
undertaking Advice and Guidance NVQs.
SAFE brokered a number of new relationships to facilitate access to financial services
for those experiencing exclusion, such as making arrangements between Lambeth
Ongoing projects
Savings and Credit Union and the Big Issue, allowing clients to access accounts if they
are sleeping rough by using the Big Issue address.
The project continues to provide services to a diverse range of clients through organisa-
tions that are involved in the following types of work: substance misuse work, employa-
bility projects, young people’s homeless hostels, prisons, tenant support (housing
associations) and community groups.
Key achievements
• A total of 223 one to one advice sessions given, of which 71% were with
new clients each quarter.
• 139 workshops delivered reaching 901 people.
• 13 traning sessions with partner organisations delivered with a total of
101 participants.
• Two Bulbs, Benefits and Bank Accounts outreach events held, supporting
local people to access money advice, financial services and energy efficiency
guidance.
• SAFE’s Money Matters column in the council’s free newspaper East End Life
continues.
• SAFE responded to several government consultations including the Thoresen
Review into ‘generic financial advice’, which seeks to provide non-branded advice
about financial products to unreached areas of society.
• Monthly outreach drop-in at the Big Issue initiated to support.
Big Issue vendors to access the most appropriate account for their needs.
• For the fourth year running SAFE delivered a summer
programme as part of Tower Hamlets Summer University
aimed at local young people wishing to improve their financial capability
through a course named ‘Think and Grow Rich’.
• One of the SAFE project workers joined the UK Remittances
Taskforce, an industry task force funded by the Department
for International Development (DfID), as a consumer
representative.
Volunteers involved: 12
Future developments and outlook
• Whilst progress has been made to reduce the number of
unbanked people in the UK, SAFE will continue to work with
clients, the government and the banking industry to maximise
the scope and impact of this.
• The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) along with SAFE will
launch the second edition of the Personal Finance Handbook,
funded by Abbey, at the House of Commons.
• SAFE will research the efficacy of its work through revisiting former
clients to see what impact our work has had on their lives.
• The team will expand to include more project workers and to build
on its previous debt support pilots.
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Capitalise
Toynbee Hall is the lead partner for Capitalise – London’s Debt Advice Partnership.
Initiated in early 2006 with £5.32m funding from the Government’s Financial Inclusion
Fund, Capitalise aims to:
• provide locally-based, accessible and free face-to-face debt advice in
priority London boroughs;
• join up debt provision across a range of providers in London and build
Ongoing projects
enduring networks for further joint planning and delivery in the future;
• enable people to manage their debt and support them to manage their
finances in the future;
• and to access clients at the earliest possible stage in the development of
their problem and deal promptly and appropriately when clients present
at points of crisis.
Key achievements
Overall
• 17 organisations provided debt advice across the most disadvantaged
areas of London to 3,420 clients.
• 32 money advisers employed and trained, with a further 27 recruited for 2007-08.
• High interest in recruitment (over 2500 applications sent; over 600 returned).
• Liquid Money Advice, a new case management system, developed and set up
with all participants and all advisers trained to use this internet-based system.
(This system is now being taken on by Advice UK to offer to its members).
• Capitalise brand established and increasing in awareness.
In outreach and referral
Capitalise advisers are providing an outreach service on top of the participant-based
service, either setting up a new outreach service or expanding an existing outreach
service:
• In East London, a full-time outreach service takes place in 10 locations
across Tower Hamlets, Hackney, and Newham.
• Across the homeless sector, a full-time outreach service takes place in
hostels and day centres across London.
• All other money advisers (except at the Royal Courts of Justice Advice Bureau)
do at least one outreach within their own or a neighbouring borough.
In reducing financial exclusion
To reach financially excluded clients or those at risk of financial exclusion, Capitalise has
worked in the following ways:
• Most advisers already based in participants’ offices in areas of high
deprivation and financial exclusion.
• Targeted outreach services including to hostels, small charities working
with vulnerable people, Age Concerns, housing association offices on large
estates, charities working with single parents, and two specific targeted
services: Broadway’s homeless sector service and East London outreach service.
• Setting up outreach in targeted geographical areas such as Neighbourhood
Renewal areas and ‘advice deserts’ in partnership with local authorities.
Volunteers involved: 40 (an additional 30 were trained)
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 Future developments and outlook
Capitalise aims to become the leading authority on debt and debt advice in London,
and use this knowledge and profile to shape the debt advice service and to influence
Government policy and the financial services for the benefit of our clients.
Specific future developments include:
• Work with smaller, targeted organisations to reach clients, including ex-offenders,
mental health patients and domestic violence sufferers. This has begun and will
continue into year 2 of the project.
• Development of pan-London homeless/supported housing outreach service.
Ongoing projects
• Expanding the services in GP surgeries.
• Better use of the website as a resource for managers and advisers.
The Booth family
Capitalise helped a couple who, like many people, had got deeper and deeper into debt
as they struggled to manage mortgage, credit card and other loan repayments. Their
debts got out of control after the birth of their second set of twins meant that the mother
had to give up work. The sudden drop in income, combined with a big increase in family
expenditure, meant debt repayments that were previously manageable became impossi-
ble to meet. Capitalise was able to help the family work out how much debt they could
afford to repay each month and negotiate with creditors to agree a manageable and real-
istic repayment schedule.
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Transact
Transact, the national forum for financial inclusion, is a movement of over 800 organisa-
tions and individuals dedicated to practicing and promoting financial inclusion for the
benefit of individual people experiencing hardship and poverty as a result of financial
exclusion.
An original initiative of Toynbee Hall, Transact was developed to promote cohesion
Ongoing projects
across the financial inclusion sector and to raise awareness of the need for the expan-
sion of financial inclusion work with other sectors. It acts as a resource for practitioners,
facilitates links with policy-makers, influencers, funders, Government, the financial serv-
ices industry and other associations to support shared thinking and common goals for
financial inclusion as well as proactively promoting solutions.
Transact also administers the RBS Innovate fund. The fund, which was formerly known
as the RBS Financial Inclusion Innovation Fund, is part of a wider programme of activity
by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group and means a further commitment of £100,000 to
help promote financial awareness and activity for organisations new to the field of finan-
cial inclusion.
Key Achievements
• Developed existing programme of national events and thematic work, including
the Transact Conference held in March 2007 attended by 160 delegates and
speakers from across the financial inclusion sector.
• Established the Transact Financial Inclusion and Housing Partnership Group.
Built membership from over 500 to over 800 organisations and individuals.
• Developed the website content, including production of monthly e-bulletins
and 22,177 recorded sessions on www.transact.org.uk.
• Quarterly paper newsletters disseminated to all partners.
Volunteers involved: 7
Future developments and outlook
In the next 12 months Transact will focus on:
• Understanding the membership to provide
avaluable service.
• Increasing the scope and impact of
existing events and activities.
• Building thematic and regional work
• Supporting the Government’s Now
Let’s Talk Money campaign.
• Developing internal structures and
processes to strengthen Transact
as an organisation.
• Increasing financial support and
sustainability.
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 Safe Exit
Safe Exit is an original initiative of Toynbee Hall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets,
Metropolitan Police and Providence Row Charity. It has resulted in a number of project
outcomes, the principle one being the Safe Exit Diversion Scheme which was launched
in June 2006.
Key achievements
Ongoing projects
• Award winner of the London Voluntary Service Council Success Stories 2006 Award.
• Update and dissemination of the Safe Exit Handbook - 51 disseminated since
April 2006.
• Broadened membership of the Information Sharing Protocol with four additional
referral agencies signing up to it, bringing the total to 19.
• Creation of the Housing Good Practice Group set up to support the re-opening
of a women’s hostel in Tower Hamlets and share good practice amongst services
providing housing to women involved in prostitution.
• Presentation of the Safe Exit project to an inter-departmental ministerial
meeting including five ministers.
• National media coverage including Guardian and Regeneration and Renewal
articles on kerb crawling.
• Commissioned the Child and Women Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan
University to conduct new research into the demand for prostitution in east London.
Volunteers involved: 11
Future developments and outlook
The Safe Exit team will work with SAFE to create a practitioners’ guide to identification
and address verification documents to assist clients, including women involved in prosti-
tution, in accessing health, housing, benefits and banking services.
Other anticipated developments include:
• Launch of demand research and development of a project to tackle demand.
• Facilitation of training sessions for forum partners on financial
inclusion and safety planning for women experiencing domestic
violence.
• Development of work in Tower Hamlets around housing.
• Development of service user involvement.
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Safe Exit Diversion Scheme
The Diversion Scheme is part of the Safe Exit project and provides a practical, support-
ive alternative to the criminal justice system for women who are arrested for the offences
of soliciting and loitering in Tower Hamlets. A close link between the Safe Exit partner-
ship, the Metropolitan Police, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and key local agen-
cies ensures that women arrested for soliciting and loitering can receive support around
their individual needs, and on completion of the scheme can get the criminal case dis-
Ongoing projects
continued.
Key achievements
• 25 different women accessed the diversion scheme with some accessing
more than once and the scheme was completed 33 times.
• Over 50% of all women arrested completed the scheme (target – 20%).
Volunteers involved: 0
Future developments and outlook
Targets for the coming year are for 75% of women arrested for soliciting or loitering to
contact the Diversion Scheme and 45% of those women to complete it. The team also
plan to set up a satellite in one partner agency to meet clients.
Claire (not her real name)
Claire is British and in her 30’s. She has had the option to access the Diversion Scheme a
number of times which has helped her begin to address the problems she faces.
She works to support her own and her long-term partner’s drug habits. Whilst she no
longer injects, her drug habit remains a problem and she’s been infected with both
Hepatitis B and C through sharing equipment with other drug users. Her Hepatitis status,
drug use and poor nutrition means her physical health is not good and she isn’t registered
with a GP.
Like all women who work in the sex industry there is a risk of sexually transmitted infec-
tions. Claire uses condoms but had not had a sexual health check in a while and was wor-
ried about her health. Following her first arrest she completed the Diversion Scheme
through accessing a sexual health service.
Because of problems with her benefits, Claire was in rent arrears and her benefits were
stopped leaving her at risk of being evicted. On her second time through the scheme she
was referred for legal and benefits advice and again completed the scheme.
Although Claire continues to sex work and is likely to get re-arrested, she has benefited
from the Diversion Scheme. We hope that through the scheme she will continue to get the
help and support she needs to improve her situation.
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 Deesha English Classes
Deesha runs dedicated English language classes for Bangladeshi and other non-native
English speaking women in Tower Hamlets, and has an established network of agencies
and services to refer women to provide wider support. Within Toynbee Hall Deesha
works in partnership with the Free Legal Advice Centre to refer clients to the Saturday
legal advice session which focuses particularly on providing legal advice for women.
Ongoing projects
Key achievements
• 47 women participated in the classes.
• Enrichment trips to the Tower of London, National Gallery and
Trafalgar Square took place.
• Practical classes on London Transport and at the Idea Store library.
• 12 students participated in a creative writing and art project in English
and contributed to a public exhibition and small publication called Our East End.
Volunteers involved: 7
Future developments and outlook
The Deesha English classes in the future will be part of a renewed wider support project
for ethnic minority women in Tower Hamlets. This will include a training and volunteering
project that is detailed on page 25. The Our East End project will develop through a
public workshop event at the Idea Store Whitechapel led by Deesha students and culmi-
nate in a second publication.
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Free Legal Advice Centre
The longest running of Toynbee Hall’s projects, the Free Legal Advice Centre opened in
1898. The evening advice sessions cover housing, debt, family and children, consumer
credit and immigration problems and there is a dedicated women only Saturday morning
session.
The centre is run by a full-time coordinator but is otherwise supported entirely by lawyers
Ongoing projects
volunteering their time for free. Volunteers are drawn largely from the younger members
of City firms of solicitors and their commitment helps people for whom such advice
would ordinarily be beyond their financial means. This can include homeless people,
those in debt, Bangladeshi women and many others.
The centre holds the Community Legal Services (CLS) quality mark for general help,
case work and debt advice, and the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
(OISC) quality mark which shows that Toynbee Hall has met the standards laid down by
the OISC.
Key achievements
• An average of 194 clients attended the centre every month.
• The volunteer team contributed an average 160 hours of advice every month.
• New debt evening initiated on Tuesday evenings due to high demand.
• New regular volunteers from Allen and Overy and ABN Amro joined the team.
Volunteers involved: 40
Future developments and outlook
Over the next 12 months the centre aims to maintain the current number of sessions and
serve just as many clients. The advice sessions provide valuable training for the young
volunteer lawyers and the centre hopes to facilitate a debating cup in the future for
which teams of legal volunteers would compete; the winning team gaining a valuable
accolade for their CVs.
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 Older People

Day Care Centre Charity Shop

The Day Care Centre provides services for low to medium dependency vulnerable and
isolated older people from Tower Hamlets including a minibus service to transport peo-
ple with limited mobility to and from Toynbee Hall, personal care provision, breakfast and
lunch clubs, and a range of social and recreational activities.
Key achievements
Ongoing projects
In February 2007 the charity shop reopened after a refurbishment and with a reviewed
business plan. It now has a paid member of staff who runs the shop along with a small
team of volunteers. Post launch takings have been buoyant and we now confidently look
forward to a successful year for the shop, the proceeds of which directly support the
Older People projects.

• The Older People programme area gained Department for Work and Pensions
(DWP) accreditation this year, which means that Toynbee Hall is now licensed
to handle applications for benefits and pension credits.
• Maintained position as one of the largest providers of day care facilities in
the Spitalfields ward.
• The centre offered a range of activities including ballroom dancing, bingo,
debt and money advice, entertainment sessions, keep fit, legal advice, music
appreciation and shopping trips.
• Toynbee Hall was chosen to be one of five Link Age Plus Network Centres in
Tower Hamlets on the strength of the quality of care provided by the Day Care
Centre.
• The Help the Aged project worker based at Toynbee Hall started weekly one to
one financial literacy advice sessions.
Volunteers involved: 5
Ongoing projects
Volunteers involved: 4
Surma Bangladeshi Pensioners’ Club
Surma Bangladeshi Pensioners’ Club is one of the longest running Bangladeshi pension-
ers’ clubs in the UK. It provides a social club with activities ranging from excursions
alongside members of the Day Care Centre to Carom tournaments. It offers advice on
citizenship rights in the UK, provides a basic translation and interpretation service and
enables Bangladeshi pensioners to access the benefits and services available to them.
Surma is committed to exploring new ways of ‘bridge-building’ across Toynbee Hall’s
diverse ethnic user groups; for the Muslim Festival Eid ul-Fitr (celebrating the end of the
month of Ramadan) Surma members and older people at the Day Care Centre came
together for a party.

Future developments and outlook Key achievements

The Day Care Centre will maintain the level of care it currently provides as well as • Over 100 regular attendees.
increasing the range of activities and information available as the Link Age Plus project
• The Help the Aged project worker based at Toynbee Hall started weekly
develops.
one to one financial literacy advice sessions.
• 25 older people attended the summer outing to Honeydale Farm to pick fruit
and vegetables.
• Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust delivered Cigarette Cessation advice
and follow-up sessions.
• Attendees contributed their reminiscences about life in
Irene, 79 the area as part of the East Side Community
Heritage oral history project ‘Our Brick Lane’
My daughter phoned Toynbee Hall and found out about the centre. They said I could come and will also participate in the Trace project
two or three times a week but when I got here they must have liked me because they let during the coming year.
me come for four or five days a week now! I’ve been coming for seven months, I think it’s • Renowned Bengali musician
very good. It gets me out of the house. Mr. Himangshu Goshsami gave a
series of music classes on Saturdays
It would be quite different if I didn’t come because at my daughter’s house there isn’t a toi- and performances for club
let downstairs and here there’s an accessible toilet so I can stay for the afternoon without attendees.
worrying. Everyone’s very friendly, I sit near the door so every time people go and come I
Volunteers involved: 4
say hello. I come for lunch, which is nice, and I finish at 4pm.

[The project worker] is really fantastic. Everyone plays Bingo which I don’t really like, I’m Future developments and outlook
not in love with Bingo but I sit and watch them, and they play darts. Students come in on Surma will continue to refer and signpost
attendees to other services where neces-
Wednesdays to do activities and I find it interesting talking to them.
sary including Deesha, Capitalise and the
Toynbee Hall’s bus is full so my daughter brings me in my electric chair and picks me up Free Legal Advice Centre. Club attendees will
participate in the development of the Elder
in her car. I feel a sense of freedom now. My daughter bringing me so I can get out here
Abuse project, detailed on page 25.
has completely changed my life. It’s been very good for me. When the centre was closed
for a holiday, I didn’t like that at all. Link Age Plus will support massage sessions for the
attendees and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office will
promote its ‘Helping the Black and Ethnic Minority Community to
travel more safely’ campaign to Surma attendees. The benefits provided by the
club will continue to be evaluated and a user survey will contribute to this.

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 Barnett Research Centre
The Barnett Research Centre comprises both a library and an archive collection. The
library has over 4,000 books covering the history of the settlement movement and has
particular strengths in social policy and issues as well as social and economic history.
This year a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund made possible the refurbishment of the
Donald Chesworth reading room and conservation of Toynbee Hall’s valuable archives.
They include papers from its founding to the present day and personal papers of our
Ongoing projects
Volunteering
Volunteers bring talent, passion and drive to Toynbee Hall. In return, we provide opportu-
nities for personal development. We encourage volunteers to acquire and develop skills,
gain experience relevant to employment, broaden their range of social contacts and
take-up appropriate training and accreditation opportunities.
Residential Volunteers

founders, Canon Samuel Barnett and Henrietta Barnett.
Key achievements
• At least three quarters of the entire library holdings catalogued and shelved,
with a lot of help from volunteers.
• The librarian received and responded to approximately 90 enquiries from
local, national and international researchers.
• The librarian co-organised Toynbee Hall’s very successful first engagement
with the London Open House festival; 800 people visited the old building over
the course of a weekend in September 2006.
• The Barnett Research Centre secured funding for a joint project with the
Young People and Families team. This local oral history project, Trace, will run
from March 2007 to March 2008.
Volunteers involved: 10
Future developments and outlook
Following the resignation of Dr Kate Bradley, the coming year will see a new librarian
come into post. Kate has moved on to be the Economic and Social Research Council
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary British History, University of London.
The research centre is at the next phase in its development and is reviewing its service
delivery plan to embed itself as an integral part of Toynbee Hall’s work both internally for
staff and projects and externally, from the local community to an international community
of researchers and social policy makers.
Ongoing projects
The Residential volunteer programme at Toynbee Hall provides a unique opportunity for
a small community of 15 active volunteers to live on-site for one year. Residential volun-
teers are encouraged to work alongside our experienced staff and volunteers and
become involved in our innovative projects, working with the poorest communities to
improve conditions in the East End of London. Key projects such as Safe Exit and our
citizenship work were kick-started by residential volunteers.
Corporate Volunteering
Toynbee Hall also develops customised opportunities for corporate partners throughout
the year to support and develop our charitable objectives, and also to assist in meeting
the corporate social responsibility objectives of individual companies. Our corporate vol-
unteering partnerships are strongly linked to those companies that provide funding to
support our work.
Key achievements
• Over 480 volunteers engaged with Toynbee Hall’s diverse work throughout the
year, across all our projects and core services, including fundraising, marketing
and administration.
• Volunteers contributed 19,837 hours to Toynbee Hall. That’s an average
1,600 hours a month, last year it was 1,200 hours.
• Five volunteer and residential volunteer led projects took place: Deesha English
Classes, Our East End, the Safe Exit evaluation, Project Redress and Young
People and Families’ citizenship work.
• 17 internships taken up across projects and core services.
• Residential volunteer Grace McWilliams was the
Ashtead Youth Work Volunteer.
• Over 200 corporate volunteers got involved
in a range of activities.

Volunteers involved: 3

Future developments and outlook

Three sponsored residential volunteer
places have been secured for the 2007-
08 financial year. The Restoration
Appeal will raise funds for the refurbish-
ment of the upper parts of Toynbee Hall
to re-house the residential volunteers
where they originally lived when the
Toynbee Hall settlement was founded in
1884.

Other plans for the coming year include:

• Partnership with Graduate Forum will
place 25 internships across the programme
areas.
• The Gift Appeal will engage over 100 corporate
volunteers in December 2007.
• The Investing in Volunteers Award assessment took place in October 2007.
• The Impact Assessment, an evaluation of volunteers’ experiences occurring
every 2 years, will take place.
• Further development of V and youth volunteering.

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 Volunteers

Toynbee Hall would like to thank the following 480 volunteers
for their enormous contribution in the last year:
Ongoing projects
Older People
Ali Negyal, Chris Edwards, Chris Horsey, Enam Ali, Griffin Trust General, Helena Aktar,
Jim Fribbance, Kris Hill, Mary Maxwell, Nessa Meherun, Raymond Glass, Razna Miah,

Ongoing projects
Admin, Estates & Volunteering
Young People and Families:
Beejal Parmar, Caroline Siyanbade, Dominic Wamika, Elaine Nutton, Jakub Rajewicz,
Abbie Fry, Ali Miller, Alice Brennan, Alison Blake, Alison Evans, Andrew Heard, Andrew
Simon Rippon, Tony Howes, Yoanna Or
Saxton, Angus Meiklejohn, Anna Aapola, Anna Cookson, Anthea Scott, Anthony Mace, Asaia
Palacios, Aston Wood, Becky Jewiss, Ben Brind, Beth Ann Walters, Bobby Shay, Caroline
Appeals
Milten, Cath Berry, Catherine Smart, Charlotte Ellery, Charlotte Salathiel, Chris Brewis, Chris
Alex Bignell, Ali Mintz, Ali Negyal, Allan Ruka, Andrew King, Anna Aapola, Ayisha Ahmed,
Edwards, Chris Pegg, David Swan, David Vaiani, Deborah Reynolds, Debra Cadet, Debra
Bonnie Chiang, Chris Brewis, Chris Edwards, Christiane Pedros, Christina Petrie, Debs
Hollon, Debs Reynolds, Dein Lawson, Devon Rath, Emily Fosters, Emma Burnett, Emma
Reynolds, Elaine Nutton, George Brewis, Isabella Rossi, James Paterson, Jane Healy, Jenny
Williams, Farzana Rahman, Gary Shaw, Georgina Brewis, Grace McWilliams, Hamid Shaddad,
Diggins, Jill McGimpsey, Jon Waters, Jonathan Gill, Juliette Green, Kris Hill, Layla Meehan,
Hannah Mackie, Hannah Siggers, Heather Holloway, Hollie Mills, Iain Smith, Ian McCabe, Ian
Lorna Logan, Magda Sikora, Michelle Wright, Neville Bass, Penny Coombe, Philippa Harrison,
Murray, Isaac Blake, Jade Blackiston, James Kerridge, Jane de Swiet, Jason Lever, Jo Botha,
Phillip Howard, Polly Cassidy, Raphael Sylvester, Saamah Abdallah, Sally Miller, Sara
Jon Waters, Jonny Murray, Jules Goodson, Juliette Green, Kate Dickety, Katy Wright, Keith
Mrowicki, Sara Nesbitt, Sarah Barker, Sarah Gallagher, Scott Paterson, Sean Hide, Siriol
Wood, Kelly Mackay, Kelly Padden, Kenneth Baillie, Khalid Rashid, Kim Nolan, Kristen Roy,
Davies, Sonia Weirauch, Suraja Begum, Thomas Lewis, Tim Scott, Ursula Westbury, Uzma Ali,
Laila Khan, Leena Ramlochun, Lindsay Berard, Lizzie Powell, Lizzie Usher, Lou Frame, Lucy
Victoria Harrison, Vincenzo Rampulla, Vinet Campbell, Yang Bao, Zhuo Liu
Brown, Lucy Francis, Magda Sikora, Maria Neophytou, Martin Page, Mary Aldred, Michael
Abiola, Mike Desborough, Neil Carson, Nicholas Kitaruth, Nick Holding, Nicola Mostert,
Barnett Research Centre
Nikath Acktar, Nikki Corcoran, Nuril Ali, Ottilie Ratcliffe, Peter Botha, Peter Litvin, Peter
Ali Negyal, Amanuel Gebrekdian, Anne Grant, Caitlin Verney, Daisy Wei, M Sharma, Polly
Williams, Phillip Howard, Piers Osbourne, Punam Vaja, Rebecca White, Rosa Collin-Kluge,
Cassidy, Selena Kirkland, Vincenzo Rampulla, Yoanna Or
Rowena Lewis, Roxane Cantu, Roxanne Dedridge, Rupsana Khanom, Saamah Abdallah, Sally
Miller, Sammy Morales, Samuel Walker, Sara Nesbitt, Sarah Gallagher, Sasha Ryazantsev,
Corporate
Sharmin Islam, Simon Powell, Sophie Banner, Sophie Springett, Stephanie Norman, Stephen
Over 200 volunteers from: ABN Amro, Allen & Overy, Citigroup, Linklaters, Lloyds of London,
Barry, Tania Hill, Thomas Lewis, Tom Kerridge, Tony Singh, Victoria Pearce, Vincenzo
Lloyds TSB, Ogilvy & Mather, Royal Bank of Scotland, Royal & Sun Alliance, Standard
Rampulla, Wen-Ching Un, Yogesh Sholakurpar, Zayla Burns
Chartered Bank

Adult Advice & Education

Residential
Abdullah Milhim, Ali Negyal, Ayisha Ahmed, Ben Moody, Brian Thayer, Bridget Cox, Cristabel
Ali Negyal, Andrew Bousfield, Anna Cookson,
Silva, Dalia Ben-Galim, David Swan, Debra Cadet, Erel Onyecherelam, Erica Or, Gillian
Anna Micheli, Ben Brind, Ben Hammond,
Murton, Helen Aynsley, Helen de Naurois, Jakir Miah, Jakub Rajewicz, Jaques Thomas, Jay
Bill Turner, Cath Berry, Chris Brewis, David
Patel, Jo Lee Morrison, Jon Waters, Karen Gorman, Kenisha Wiggs, Leah Jones, Lorena
Swan, Debs Reynolds, Grace McWilliams,
Arocha, Lucilla Bertolli, Magda Sikora, Mary Gayton, Merle Maxwell-Flavius, Natasha Adjori,
Isobel Sleeman, James Martin, Jenny
Neliswa Katsube-Bell, Paul Riseborough, Polly Cassidy, Rachel Reeves, Raghavan
Diggins, Jon Waters, Kate Ryan, Krupali
Selvaratnam, Rizwana Ansani, Rose Martin, Saamah Abdallah, Sally Miller, Sara Nesbitt, Sarah
Patel, Magda Sikora, Nick Jones, Polly
Gallagher, Shamsun Islam, Siriol Davies, Suraja Begum, Suzy Norman, Tamara Idelson, Uzma
Cassidy, Ruth Fitzharris, Saamah Abdallah,
Ali, Victoria Harrison, Vincenzo Rampulla
Sara Nesbitt, Selena Kirkland, Siriol
Davies, Uzma Ali, Vincenzo Rampulla
Legal Advice
Abbi Rayfield, Amy Clements, Andrew Johnson, Ben Baumberg, Ben Giaretta, Brian Tomlinson,
Trustees
Claire Spight, Dan Bunting, Daniel Tunkel, David Strachan, Debbie Nathan, Dorothy Herman,
Anis Rahman, Ben Rowland, Christopher
Elizabeth Paterson, Eryne Lim, Far Khan, Isha Keymist, Jackie Bunce, Jamie Liddington, Jerry
Coombe, Dr Cynthia White, Georgina Brewis,
During, Joe Rigler, Laxmi Patel, Layla Meehan, Lorna Brazell, Mark Baumohl, Niel Budd, Paul
Max Weaver, Jane de Swiet, Nicola Marshall,
Wilmshurst, Paulette Brooks, Peter Jones, Rasheda Nicolson, Rebecca Vanstone, Richard
Professor John Gabriel, Roger Harrison, Scott Cormack,
Macmillan, Richard Thomas, Sandra Villani, Sean Gabbitas, Sharmin Choudhury, Shona
Syed Sajedur Rahman, The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Hood
Power, Simon Budge, Tandeep Minhas, Taz Begum, Zeenat Karim

Ambassadors
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York,
Mr Jon Snow, Ms Polly Toynbee, The Dowager Lady Westbury CBE

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 Young People and Families Adult Advice & Education

Just Text Deesha Women’s Training

Just Text is an innovative interfaith project that aims to engage young people from
Jewish, Muslim and Christian heritages across London in dialogue and debate about
youth issues and faith in contemporary Britain. Through initiating dialogue between
young people in a safe and open forum the project will address the issues they care
about in the context of their own convictions and an interfaith understanding.
& Volunteering Project
The Training & Volunteering Project is a new aspect of Deesha that aims to provide a
unique opportunity for 15 women to receive training and then volunteer to support other
vulnerable women in organisations across Tower Hamlets.

Initially the project will engage up to 30 young people aged 14 to 19 in workshops and
an event to raise aspirations will be held at Cambridge University for all the participants.
Begins: June 07
The training course will cover a range of modules including basic awareness of domes-
tic violence, IT skills, cultural awareness, impact of domestic violence on children and
families, basic administration and office skills and others. After completion of this training
Toynbee Hall will support the women to find placements in partner organisations to gain
valuable volunteering experience.

Begins: August 2007

V
V is an independent national charity that champions youth volunteering in England and
aims to enable a lasting change in the quality, quantity and diversity of youth volunteer-
Older People
ing. The ‘V team’ within the Young People and Families team will be working across the
borough and aims to get 450 young people, aged 16-25, from Tower Hamlets into volun-
teering.

The V team will focus on three main areas of work: encouraging more youth volunteering Elder Abuse
within Toynbee Hall, capacity building in community organisations across the borough
and encouraging more young people from the area to volunteer. Funded by Comic Relief, Toynbee Hall will create an awareness-raising and outreach
campaign around elder abuse focusing on vulnerable and isolated older people and
Begins: June 2007
Future projects planned

Future projects planned

particularly older Bangladeshi women.

Trace
A joint project between Toynbee Hall’s Young People and Families team and the Barnett
Research Centre, Trace will focus on the history of youth clubs and youth work at
Toynbee Hall as a basis for exploring broader themes about the leisure time of young
people in London in the last 60 years. A core group of 20 young people will lead on
design and delivery and up to 120 young people will benefit from involvement in this
project over 12 months.
It aims to involve Toynbee Hall’s existing beneficiaries in designing the campaign around
what elder abuse is and what services are available for those at risk of or experiencing
neglect or abuse whilst gaining an overview of the scale of elder abuse in Tower
Hamlets and particularly within the Bangladeshi community. Outcomes of the project will
be to develop a model of best practice for tackling elder abuse with
the potential to roll out pan London.
Begins: July 2007

Begins: June 2007

Aspire
This project will work with 150 young people aged 14 and 15 from London’s East End
who are ‘excluded within school’, providing a structured programme of accredited activi-
ties to raise aspirations and confidence, and to develop interpersonal and organisational
skills. It will run in three statges: Think – engaging in citizenship learning; Express – cre-
ative music and arts with a financial education bias (linked to Arts Award accreditation);
and Achieve – experiencing new outdoor activity challenges (linked to Duke of
Edinburgh Award accreditation).

Begins: September 2007

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Financial Informacion

Financial Informacion
Financial Information

During 2006-2007, Toynbee Hall spent £3,402,000 on services for Charitable Services Expenditure
communities in the East End and across London.

The financial information is taken from the full audited financial statements The Capitalise Project makes up 69% of our charitable expenditure;
and Trustees Report agreed at the Annual General Meeting on 18th of the other 31% expenditure is broken down as follows:
September 2007, copies of which are available from Toynbee Hall
Appeals team. Young People and Families 17%

SAFE 15%

Transact 13%

Free Legal Advice Centre 5%

Women’s Services 12%

Day Care Centre 16%

Volunteer Programme 5%
Income
Barnett Research Centre 3%
Project income 47%
Safe Futures 13%
Property income 16%

Donation 31%

Dividend interest 2%

Special events 4%

Expenditure
Charitable services 63%

Property 20%

Fundraising 6%

Administration 10%

Irrecoverable VAT 1%

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 List of Donors

General Young People and Families Adult Advice and Education Barnett Research Centre
Alchemy Foundation (The) Allan Charitable Trust Abbey Charitable Trust Heritage Lottery Fund (The)
Albert Reckitt Charitable Trust (The) Ashtead PCC Addleshaw Goddard Charitable Trust (The)
Albert Van den Bergh Charitable Trust (The) Balliol College Allen and Overy Foundation (The)
Ardwick Trust (The) Bancroft's School Ashurst Volunteering
Balliol College BBC Children in Need Barclays plc Community Relations
Beds, Bucks & Herts Society of Chartered British School of Brussels Barclays plc Financial Inclusion Fund Linklaters
Accountants Citigroup Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation London Law Trust (The)
Busenhart Morgan-Evans Foundation (The) Coutts & Co. Charitable Trust City Parochial Foundation Parish of Ashtead
Butchers (The Worshipful Company) David Hills Trust (The) Criminal Law Week Ltd
C D Horton Charitable Trust (The) Docklands Light Railway David Isaacs Fund (The)
C L Loyd Charitable Trust (The) Faith Communities Capacity Building Fund EDF Energy Trust Events and Volunteering
Carmen Benevolent Trust (The Worshipful Company) Four Acre Trust EQUAL
Carpenters' (The Worshipful Company) Four Winds Trust Esmee Fairbairn Foundation (The) Allen and Overy Foundation (The)
Charlotte Bonham-Carter Charitable Trust (The) Gerald Palmer Eling Trust (The) Friends Provident Foundation Card Aid
Chapman Charitable Trust (The) Graphite Enterprise Trust plc Levi Strauss Foundation Farrer & Co Charitable Trust (The)
Citigroup Foundation Help a London Child London Borough of Tower Hamlets Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers (The Worshipful Company)
G C Gibson Charitable Trust (The) Heritage Lottery Fund London Borough of Tower Hamlets Gravesend Grammar School for Girls
Guild of Freemen of the City of London John Lewis Partnership General Community Fund RBS Group Helen and Geoffrey de Freitas Charitable Trust (The)
Hampstead Garden Suburb Fellowship (The) S J Berwin & Co Lime Sharp Security Shredding
Hanley Trust (The) London Law Trust (The) Safer Stronger Communities Fund Linklaters
Hawthorne Charitable Trust (The) Lord Barnby's Foundation Tudor Trust (The) Ogilvy & Mather
Haymills Charitable Trust M & G Group plc Wates Foundation (The) Oriel Securities Ltd
Inverforth Charitable Trust (The) Maitlands Fund Charitable Trust (The) Sidell Gibson Architects
James Weir Foundation Man Group plc Charitable Trust Thornhillhead Methodist Church
Konrad Bud Charitable Trust Miller Insurance Services Ltd Older People
London Borough of Tower Hamlets Mrs F B Laurence 1976 Charitable Trust (The)
Miller Insurance Services Ltd Paget Trust (The) Bishopsgate Foundation (The)
Mitsui O S K Bulk Shipping (Europe) Ltd Proms at St Judes Childwick Trust (The)
Modiano Charitable Trust (The) v City Bridge
Mr and Mrs J A Pye Charitable Settlement Wellington Underwriting plc Donald Chesworth Educational Trust
N M Rothschild & Sons Limited Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust (The)
Observer Charitable Trust (The) Dunhill Medical Trust (The)
Ofenheim Charitable Trust East London Nursing Society Trust
P F Charitable Trust Goldsmiths' Company's Charities (The)
Parochial Church Council of the Parish of Great Hampstead Garden Suburb Fellowship
Berkhamsted Henry Smith Charity (The)
Priory Foundation (The) Hospital Saturday Fund Charitable Trust (The)
R H Scholes Charitable Trust (The) Lazard Brothers & Co Limited
Richard Amis Charitable Trust Linklaters
Rothera Family Charity Trust (The) London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Royal London Group M & G Group plc
Simon's Charity Man Group plc Charitable Trust
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust Miller Insurance Services Ltd
Smith & Williamson New Court Charitable Trust (The)
Stella Symons Charitable Trust Peter de Haan Charitable Trust (The)
Tomkins plc Sobell Foundation (The)
Tompkins Foundation (The) St Botolph without Bishopsgate
Vandervell Foundation (The) Tudor Trust (The)
Vintners (The Worshipful Company)
Yvette and Hermione Jacobson Charitable Trust (The)

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 A company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital.
Company registration no 20080
Registered office:
Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial Street
London
E1 6LS
Tel 020 7247 6943
Fax 020 7377 5964
Email info@toynbeehall.org.uk
www.toynbeehall.org.uk

A registered charity
Charity registration no 211850
VAT registration no 243 8463 52

A member of the British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres (bassac)
and the International Federation of Settlements

Royal Patron
HRH Princess Alexandra

Ambassadors
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
Mr Jon Snow
Ms Polly Toynbee
The Dowager Lady Westbury CBE

Trustees
Christopher Coombe - Chairman
Scott Cormack – Hon. Treasurer (until 12 September 2006)
The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Hood – Hon. Secretary
Georgina Brewis
Jane de Swiet
Professor John Gabriel
Roger Harrison
Nicola Marshall
Anis Rahman
Ben Rowland
Max Weaver
Dr Cynthia White

Chief Executive
The Reverend Professor Luke Geoghegan

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Support Us

Toynbee Hall needs to raise over £1 million per year to support our
programme of work, benefiting 6,000 members of the Tower Hamlets
community each year.

Please support us and play an active role in ensuring the continuation

of our unique and valuable work piloting practical innovative programmes
in Tower Hamlets with the aim of rolling out national solutions.

To make a donation or for further information about supporting our work

please see www.toynbeehall.org.uk.

Support Us
Toynbee Hall needs to raise over £1
million per year to support our pro-
gramme of work, benefiting 6,000
members of the Tower Hamlets
community each year.

Please support us and play an

active role in ensuring the
continuation of our unique
and valuable work piloting
practical innovative pro-
grammes in Tower Hamlets
with the aim of rolling out

Toynbee Hall
28 Commercial Street
London E1 6LS

Toynbee Hall Tel 020 7247 6943

28 Commercial Street Fax 020 7377 5964
London E1 6LS Email publicity@toynbeehall.org.uk
Tel 020 7247 6943 Fax 020 7377 5964
Email info@toynbeehall.org.uk
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