Help available to the poor before 1900

• 'Heaven helps those who help themselves'


  Middle and upper classes believed poor people should help themselves out of poverty as handouts would not benefit them in the long term
• Friendly Societies


  Like insurance companies, working class put money in weekly to get payments if father was sick, unemployed or died
• Penny policies


  Payment of 1d would pay for a funeral
• Trade unions


  Part of subscription used for welfare benefits like sickness, unemployment or death
• Savings banks


  Popular with servants & people saving for their children, penny savings banks meant people would have money in difficult times
• Co-operative Societies


  Provided low cost food and services
• Dr Barnardo's


  Had 100 homes for 60,000 orphans by 1900
• Quarrier's home


  Raising £20,000 a year by 1890 to help orphans
• RSPCC


  Formed in 1894 to protect children who were starved, beaten or abused
• Salvation Army


  Helped the sick, homeless and unemployed in the hope their souls could be saved by making them more aware of God and religion