| AdminHistory | Founded 1885 as the Jewish Ladies' Society for Preventive and Rescue Work by Lady Constance Battersea and a group of friends and relatives; set up Charcroft House (later Rosaline House and Sara Pyke House), a lodging house for 'foreign Jewesses', which later became a hostel for unmarried mothers and their babies; founded a 'gentleman's committee', chaired by Claude Montefiore, to assist girls and women arriving alone at British ports, 1889; became the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women in 1897; the Association also supervised a domestic training facility at Highbury Home and Montefiore House, an industrial school for Jewish girls. |