Organizations interested in tours of March Air Reserve Base should contact the Public Affairs Office for more information. Please submit the name of the group or organization, the number of people interested in the tour, and items you may be interested in seeing.
By presenting the findings of research into the role and function of the rural settlements in Sedgemoor it will provide a robust basis for strategic policy on future development outside Bridgwater.
Settlement houses were residential community centers located in urban industrial districts. Middle-class young people came to live in these settlements to work with the poor residents in the house's neighborhood. The settlement-house movement in the United States was inspired by the founding of Toynbee Hall in London's East End in 1884. Using recent graduates of Oxford and Cambridge as the resident staff, Toynbee Hall tried to raise the status of the poor by providing tutoring and other services. Development of U.S. Settlement Model