National Children's Home
The Children's Home was founded in 1869 by the Reverend Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Francis Horner and Alfred Mager, committed Methodists (the home was brought under the wing of the Methdodist Church the following year), who wished to provide education, training, and most importantly, a good home for orphans and destitute children whom they had encountered on the streets of London.

The Children's Home established itself in London and quickly expanded into other areas of Britain (becoming known as the National Children's Home in 1907), opening homes providing training, education (including Approved Schools), convalescent care, nursery care, care for the disabled and so on.

The Home also initiated an emigration scheme, beginning to send children to Canada in 1872. Over the next seventy years NCH emigrated children to Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

More information on The National Children's Home, The sites of the branches, the staff, the children and other matters relating to The National Children's Home can be found at www.theirhistory.co.uk

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