Introducing our new online resources

With a milestone in the history of the Together Trust and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic coinciding in 2020, plans to celebrate our 150th anniversary suffered many setbacks. Whilst we were able to move some of our events online, others have been postponed indefinitely.

Over the past few months, however, we have been working hard to get things back on track, and have made some advances in our National Lottery Heritage Funded project. We recently completed two exciting projects which will open up more of our archive and history significantly: a new digital timeline and a digitised collection of our early annual reports, both of which are now online.

Click to explore the timeline

From humble beginnings in 1870, you can follow our journey to champion the rights and needs of children and young people across Greater Manchester, right up to the present day on our digital timeline.

Click to view our Annual Reports (1870-1919)

Documenting our homes, funds, and providing updates on some of our former looked after children, our annual reports hold a wealth of information on the history of child welfare, child emigration, and philanthropy in Manchester and Salford during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

You can view all this and more on our new history hub on the Together Trust website.

One other way to get your history fix is by picking up a copy of Andrew Simpson's The Ever Open Door: 150 Years of the Together Trust. Released just as the UK entered its first national lockdown in March 2020 (which of course presented a number of issues and delays), it is now available to purchase via the Together Trust online shop. You can read the first chapter of the book here.