Manchester Jewish Board of Guardians

The first meeting of the Board of Guardians for the Relief of the Jewish Poor of Manchester was held at the Jews'School in June 1867. The organization aimed to provide assistance through:

"food, bed and other clothing, medical aid, industrial occupation, and other help, whereby the recipient might obtain a livelihood; loans, aid to emigrants and the like".

Source: Liedtke, Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester (1998), pp.84-86; Manchester Jewish Federation