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Team Toynbee Hall Success at The London Legal Walk 2019

Thank you for helping us raise over £1000 for our Free Legal Advice Centre On Monday 17th June, a team of 20 walkers from Toynbee Hall took part in the annual 10km London Legal Walk to raise funds for the free legal advice centres from across London and the South East Thank you to everyone…
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Creative Clinic Showcase - Saturday 18th May

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories; Young People’s Creative Showcase

Join us on us Saturday 18th May, 1:30pm – 3:00pm, for a Young People’s Creative Showcase. Recently a group of Newham Sixth Form College first year A level students took part in a two day workshop hosted by Toynbee Hall & The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA). The workshop was part of a creative writing project…
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Join us for the very first Datathon

Join us for our very first Datathon

Take part in person or online as we use public data to help the Tower Hamlets community. We need your help! Since its inception in 1884, evidence based research has been central to Toynbee Hall’s mission as a charity. Over a century ago we played a key role in creating the first data visualizations mapping…
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Toynbee Hall Residencial Voluntary Worker Applications now open

Residential volunteer applications are now open

We’re recruiting for a second round of residential volunteers to live onsite in our historic halls in the heart of East London. We want you to engage with the local community, using their experiences to develop ways to tackle inequality, bridge the gap between people of all social and financial backgrounds, and build on the…
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Residential voluntary workers with Jim Minton outside the doors to our halls

Meet our residential volunteers

Since re-opening the doors to our historic building this year, we’ve delivered a range of heritage-inspired learning projects and community events to encourage the next generation of social activists to drive change in their communities. This includes working with local schools on history and arts projects, holding forum events and workshops as well as undertaking…
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Walk in their shoes

Walk in their shoes – Become a Volunteer Tour Guide

We are looking for volunteers who would like to become a Toynbee Hall Volunteer Tour Guide, and join our unique Walk In Their Shoes free-of-charge training programme. Toynbee Hall is based in an area of the East End that is rich in fascinating stories from the past. It’s a haven for tour guides and attracts…
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The Launch of our Older People's Peer Action Research Project in September 2018

Our two new community-led research projects will be launched on April 18th

We’re holding an event to launch two new Participatory Action Research (PAR) projects in Tower Hamlets on Thursday 18th April. The two projects will look at community safety and the needs of young renters. As a result of the success of our previous PAR project that explored the needs of older people in Tower Hamlets,…
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We're recruiting for two new peer reseach groups

Toynbee Hall to launch two new peer-led research projects

We’re recruiting two groups of local people to lead on two new research projects.

The legacy of ex-FLAC volunteer John Clark

An ex-volunteer at the Free Legal Advice Centre (FLAC) has left his mark on Toynbee Hall with a gift in his will of £25,000. John Clark, who dedicated a quarter of a century to helping people access justice, left a forward thinking gift which will help ensure that people in future years are supported through…
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two day free youth Creative Clinic

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories Creative Clinic

We’re running a free two day Creative Clinic for 16 to 19 year olds

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