Together Trust Archive

Are you interested in finding out how and where the Together Trust started? Also looking to get some exercise? As part of our National Lottery Heritage Fund project we welcome you to sign up to our virtual tour to explore our 150-year-long history across Manchester, Salford, and Cheadle while staying healthy and active.

Join us on Facebook from Monday 12th October - Friday 16th October to share your memories of the Together Trust, the Boys' and Girls' Welfare Society, and the Manchester and Salford Boys' and Girls' Refuges and Homes. 

It's local and community history month, so we are looking at some of the communities across Greater Manchester and Cheshire that have helped us change lives over the past 150 years.

In 1921, in celebration of the Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges and Homes jubilee, a new book was published. Written by William Edmondson, Secretary of the charity between 1894 and 1920, it told the story of the first 50 years of the Refuges. It is the only published history of the charity and concentrates on individual stories, attempting to provoke sympathy in the reader and encourage donations or aid. For those interested in the charity’s Victorian work, it offers an introduction to the services, key staff and stories of the children who lived in the homes. Making Rough Places Plain, 1920

“It caused us a great deal of distress to give up the name by which we had been known for ninety years, but time does bring change and change has had to be gone through.” - Anonymous, A Potted History of the BGWS (c.1977). Since the charity’s beginnings in 1870 it has been known under three different names. All chosen to reflect the work carried out by the organisation, they also reveal how the charity has changed. So what is in a name?   (1870 to 1960) Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges and Homes

Family history is the systematic narrative and research of past events relating to a specific family, or specific families. Are any of these children one of your ancestors?