THE SHAFTESBURY SOCIETY.
The Shaftesbury Society and R.S.U., founded in the " Hungry Forties,' is facing a very difficult winter in its varied service for the crowds of children and' families packed in miserable homes in mean streets. The 170 Associated Missions in Greater London are in the full swing of the season. Special agencies minister to human needs from before birth to old age, as in ante-natal clinics, infant welfare centres and day nurseries, medical missions, meetings for women, grandfathers and old age pensioners. Some 5,500 voluntary workers are engaged in these and in Sunday Schools and Services, Scouts Guides, Brigades, Bands of Hope, and in the 120 Cripple Parlours and Senior Guilds for the 8,800 cripples on the Society's register. The four seaside residential schools have now in them over 250 crippled and ailing children. Several holiday homes are also doing fine winter service. One of the principal activities of the next few weeks is in the distribution of clothing, boots, toys and nourishment for crippled and ailing children. The economic depression has lessened the Society's income but has not involved any diminution of effort, and several urgent challenges for helping in the outer areas have been taken up, for which financial help is earnestly invited. Last year's expenditure exceeded £62,000. Gifts of money or of goods will be gratefully acknowledged if sent to :—Aarnua BLACK, General Secretary, John Kirk House, 32 John Street, W.C.I.
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