Catalogue description The Messenger House Trust Archive

This record is held by Planned Environment Therapy Archive and Special Collections including the National Childcare Library

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Reference: MESSENGER
Title: The Messenger House Trust Archive
Description:

Papers of Messenger House Trust.
Date: 1977 - 1999
Held by: Planned Environment Therapy Archive and Special Collections including the National Childcare Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: SA/MHT
Language: ENG
Creator:

Messenger House Trust
Physical description: Approx. 13 boxes
Physical condition: Paper
Access conditions:

MIXED
Administrative / biographical background:

The Messenger House Trust was founded by Josephine Lomax-Simpson in 1970. Lomax-Simpson used money she had inherited from her mother to purchase a property on Malcolm Road, Wimbledon, which became the first of nine houses established between 1970 and 1981 to provide accommodation for single mothers and their babies, and homeless young men. She called the house the ‘Messenger House’ in memory of her mother, and created the Messenger House Trust. In 1970 the aims of the charity were to ‘promote the physical, moral and mental welfare of mothers (married or unmarried) and their children who were in need of resettlement or rehabilitation’, and also to ‘care for deprived children and young persons in need’.

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