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Toynbee Hall was the first university-affiliated institution of the worldwide Settlement Movement—a reformist social agenda that strove to get the rich and poor to live more closely together in an interdependent community.[1] Founded by Henrietta Weston and Samuel Barnett in 1884 in the economically depressed East End of London.[2] Toynbee Hall was named in memory of their friend and fellow reformer, Oxford historian, Arnold Toynbee, who had died the previous year.
In 1884, Toynbee Hall introduced Oxford and Cambridge students to the hall to educate the lower classes. These students would in turn learn about poverty.[3]
Toynbee Hall still continues today to work on bridging the gap between people of all social and financial backgrounds with its main focus being on working towards a future without poverty.