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Logo of the Woman's Guild. The Church of Scotland Guild or simply The Guild (formerly known as the Woman's Guild), is a movement within the Church of Scotland. Historically it was, and often in practice it is, an exclusively woman's movement. It has groups, organised at a congregational level, in most of the parishes of Scotland. The aim of the ...
This is a list of guilds in the United Kingdom.It includes guilds of merchants and other trades, both those relating to specific trades, and the general guilds merchant in Glasgow and Preston.
The 'Woman's Guild' was founded in 1887 by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on the initiative of her husband. Charteris acknowledged woman were already involved in Christian service but that there "was a need to develop and organize them as an official working unity within the church."
Anne Hepburn (20 August 1925 – 29 July 2016) was a Church of Scotland missionary and a teacher, feminist and social justice advocate and wife and mother. She served as National President of the Church of Scotland's Women's Guild in the early 1980s, where she led the debate on the issue of the "Motherhood of God".
This organisation, which was founded in 1872, cared for the daughters of women who were in prison. [3] She then worked for the Mildmay Centre in London and then in Guernsey. [1] The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland's Woman's Guild had been founded in 1887 at the suggestion of A. H. Charteris. [4]
There were a series of initiatives connected with the re-united Church of Scotland between 1947 and 1956. The Tell Scotland Movement resulted in the controversial 1955 Billy Graham All-Scotland Crusade, which arrested the decline in church attendance. However, attendance declined rapidly from the 1960s, resulting in a reduction in home mission ...
In the early 1960s, she joined the Craigmillar Branch of Scottish Co-operative Women’s Guild (SCWG) and Hutchison discovered that the Guild offered great opportunities for working women which were not available anywhere else at the time. [1] She attended business classes run by the SCWG.
Women's sports clubs and teams in Scotland (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Women's organisations based in Scotland" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.