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Charities information for Berkshire and places above it in the hierarchy
- The Community of St John Baptist, Clewer was established in 1852 and they ran orphanages, children’s homes, boarding schools, hospitals and convalescent homes around the country as well as carried out missionary work. They are probably best known in Berkshire for the House of Mercy in Hatch Lane, Clewer which was a place where ‘fallen women’ could be rehabilitated and was also the convent in which the Sisters lived. The Sisters relocated to Oxfordshire in 2001 and in 2012 they moved to the campus of Ripon College Cuddesdon (an Anglican Theological College) where they still offer support and education today. (see the Berkshire Echo Vol 78, 2017). Records held by the RBA (ref. D/EX 1675).
- Robert Palmer’s Almshouse Charity in Sonning, 1815-1958. Records held by the RBA (ref. D/QX 24).
- Royal Merchant Navy School (formerly Merchants’ Seamen’s Orphan Asylum, Royal Merchant Seamen’s Orphanage, now Royal Merchant Navy Education Foundation ) Bearwood, Winnersh was an orphanage for seamen's children. Records held by the RBA. See Vol 82, 2018 of the Berkshire Echo, including case studies of Richard Been Stannard and Elizabeth Mary Askins.
- See Schools for charity schools.
