The Charity Organisation Society (3.5)

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Introduction

  • founded in 1869
  • aimed to co-ordinate the work of many private charities that had been founded
  • co-operation with the poor law authorities at a local level 
  • organisation of the work of ther charities
  • ensuring only the deserving were in receipt of charitable relief 
  • relief was intended to reform the behaviour of the recipient as well as to put food on the table
  • relief was designed to be temporary
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difficulties faced

  • failed to recruit suffiecient volunteers or raise enough funds
  • resented by the poor
  • their work was overbearing 
  • guardians regarded them as interfering 
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achievements

  • had an influence on official thinking
  • gave evidence to enquiries on social problems
  • established procedures it used when visiting poor families 
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