Celebrating our founders - Nora Hill

Nora Hill was one of the founding committee members of the St Pancras House Improvement Society, later known as St Pancras Housing Association. 
Committed to social work, she was a voluntary social worker of the Charity Organisation Society, which is now called the Family Welfare Association.

The first meeting of the committee was at the local office of the Charity Organisation Society. 

Nora was also in the first committee of the North St Pancras group in 1930, who were a sub-committee of the St Pancras House Improvement Society particularly concerned with the housing conditions in parts of Kentish Town. 

Although the mission had a nursery school, which Father Basil Jellicoe himself had started, there were not enough spaces for all the children in the area. The society started to think about opening its own nursery, so they created a new nursery school 
committee where Nora was appointed.

Nora resigned from the St Pancras House Improvement Society’s Committee in 1959 because she had become increasingly deaf, but until her death in 1972 she continued her work for the St Christopher’s Nursery School Committee.