Reference number
  • MESSENGER
Level of description
  • Collection
Date(s)
  • 1977-1999
Extent and medium
  • Approx. 13 boxes
Category
  • Residential
Scope and content
  • Papers of Messenger House Trust.
History
  • The Messenger House Trust was founded by Josephine Lomax-Simpson in 1970. Lomax-Simpson used money she had inherited from her mother to purchase a property on Malcolm Road, Wimbledon, which became the first of nine houses established between 1970 and 1981 to provide accommodation for single mothers and their babies, and homeless young men. She called the house the ‘Messenger House’ in memory of her mother, and created the Messenger House Trust. In 1970 the aims of the charity were to ‘promote the physical, moral and mental welfare of mothers (married or unmarried) and their children who were in need of resettlement or rehabilitation’, and also to ‘care for deprived children and young persons in need’.
Name of creator(s)
  • Messenger House Trust
Access status
  • OPEN
Language
  • ENG
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
  • Transferred by Audrey Beaton and Josephine Lomax-Simpson to the Planned Environment Therapy Trust between 1994 and 1999. Ownership transferred to the Mulberry Bush Organisation when the Trust folded in 2018.