THE CALDECOTT COMMUNITY
The work of the Caldecott Community is probably well known at least by reputation to our readers. It is a boarding school for children of working class parents and aims at giving them the same conditions as they get in educational homes. Although the parents contribute as far as they can for the children their payments naturally do not cover the whole cost, and a year ago the friends of the Community greatly feared that this courageous and much-needed educational experiment would have to close for lack of funds, but sufficient was raised to enable the School to reopen in spacious new premises at Cheshunt. At the opening of the new building, the Chairman, Percy Alden, however, pleaded for further funds to help pay off the mortgage. His experience in one of the poorest quarters of East London had taught him how much such schools were needed by children whose homes were far from streams and trees and all the influences of the country. Amongst other speakers was Dr. Alington, who was welcomed both as a representative of the Head Masters’ Conference and as Head Master of Eton.
Common Cause, November 28, 1924, p. 354