civic, community/cultural
Charles Robert Ashbee, Elijah Hoole, 1884
28 Commercial Street, E1 6LS
The world's founding university settlement. Built to provide educational & social spaces for East Londoners. Neo-Tudor Grade II listed building with notable room decorated by Arts & Crafts designer CR Ashbee. Restoration completed in 2018.
Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East
Shoreditch High Street, Liverpool Street, Whitechapel
25, 115, 15, 242, 254
Toynbee Hall was created in 1884 by Samuel Barnett, a Church of England vicar, and his wife Henrietta, in response to a growing realisation that enduring social change would not be achieved through the existing individualised and piecemeal approaches.
The radical vision was to create a place for future leaders to live and work as volunteers in London’s East End, bringing them face to face with poverty, and giving them the opportunity to develop practical solutions that they could take with them into national life. Many of the individuals that came to Toynbee Hall as young men and women – including Clement Attlee and William Beveridge – went on to bring about radical social change and maintain a lifelong connection with Toynbee Hall.
Toynbee Hall is a charity that works 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.
We work to address poverty and injustice through advice and support and influencing systemic change, shifting power to people and communities affected by injustice and inequality, and collaborating to end poverty and build fairer systems and institutions.
Drop in / Guided tour
gallery, art in the public realm, community/cultural, museum
The Gilbert & George Centre was originally established as a registered charity by the artist in 2009 with the objective to advance the education of the public in the arts, and generally to advance the arts, architecture, heritage and culture for the benefit of the public.
SIRS Architects, 2022
Drop in / Guided tour
institution/profession, historical house
A rare opportunity to explore the Georgian headquarters of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), the UK’s oldest building conservation charity, not normally open to the public.
Unknown, 1740
