MARY WARD SETTLEMENT

MARY WARD SETTLEMENT, founded in 1895, supports the community through adult education, welfare access, social justice, and community services. The Settlement Movement began in the early 1880s as a response to the urban poverty and social problems caused by industrialisation. Mary Ward's work is focused on empowering people to enrich and transform their lives, in a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere. The Mary Ward Settlement empowers and equips people to learn, enrich and transform their lives, to deal with obstacles to their hopes and aspirations, and to find support, common interests, inspiration, and friendship within the wider Mary Ward community. The Settlement was renamed as the Mary Ward Settlement in memory of Mary Ward.