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Home-Start was initiated in Leicester, UK during 1973 by Margaret Harrison, [1] [2] before becoming a national organisation in the UK in 1981 with nine branches. [3] In the 1980's it became Britain’s fastest growing social franchise, [1] continuing to grow under the Sure Start scheme of the Blair Government, [2] [4] [5] and, as of 2021, reports that 27,000 families are supported yearly.
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Poor people develop ill health at an earlier age than better off people. Poorer men on average are diagnosed with their first serious long-term illness when they are 56 and poorer women at 55. In the poorest places, women develop their first serious long-term illness at only 47 and men at 49.
The current location and working name of the charity is Western Lodge on Clapham Common; the building is a Georgian Mansion house donated to the Society in 1925 by a generous supporter. Western Lodge was built in about 1800 and since its donation to The Society for the Relief of the Homeless Poor. The property has undergone many refurbishments.
The Yorkshire Stingo, a public house in Marylebone.The committee used this pub as a distribution outlet for alms to the Black Poor. On 5 January 1786, an announcement appeared in the Public Advertiser that Mr. Brown, a baker in Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, was to "give a Quartern Loaf to every Black in Distress, who will apply on Saturday next between the Hours of Twelve and Two".
Before the official establishment of the modern welfare state, clear examples of social welfare existed to help the poor and vulnerable within British society. A key date in the welfare state's history is 1563; when Queen Elizabeth I's government encouraged the wealthier members of society to give to the poor, [2] by passing the Poor Act 1562.
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We help ordinary people who have been overcome by circumstances, such as family breakdown, redundancy, injury, physical or mental illness. In the UK and Ireland, there are 4 million adults who are eligible for our support. [9] In 2007, the charity supported 2,500 people each year, spending £4 million in weekly grants and one-off payments. [10]