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FINCHLEY GUILD OF SOCIAL SERVICE
Information Centre provides free advice on personal or any other problems ; helps
with enquiries on current legislation prior to Legal Advice; e.g., Housing and Rent
difficulties, domestic worries, pension queries, etc. All interviews are strictly confidential.
Sympathetic help and advice is freely given, and in cases where legal help is
necessary, it is arranged for the applicant to see a Solicitor.
Help for Invalids—elderly housebound, and patients discharged from hospital
are visited where necessary, and assistance or advice is given in needful cases.
“ Wireless for the Bedridden” Society—the Guild acts as sponsor in providing
radio sets for housebound invalids.
During the summer, the Guild arranges holidays at special terms. Programmes
are available from February onwards, on application.
All enquiries for services offered by the Finchley Guild of Social Service should
be directed to their Secretary at the Municipal Offices, Hertford Lodge Annexe, East
End Road, N.3. (Telephone: FINchley 2626). Hours 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.,
Monday to Friday, and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Mondays.
BRITISH LEGION
The British Legion helps ex-service men and women and their dependants at
times of difficulty through ill-health or other causes. Such people do not have to be
Legion members. Assistance given with rent arrears, mortgage repayments, supplying
coal and food, if necessary, hiring articles such as ladders and equipment, also helping
with pension appeals. Committee meets at 359, Regent Close, Ballard Lane, N.12.
FINCHLEY RATEPAYERS' ASSOCIATION
This is a body which exists for the benefit of the citizens of the Borough as a
whole. It assists in preserving or improving amenities within the Borough. Problems
of a local nature which it is felt require advice, or matters needing to be remedied,
should be submitted to the Honorary Secretary of the Ratepayers' Association—H. A.
Coliis, Esq., 14, Hillcourt Avenue, N.12. (HILlside 4731), or to the Chairman—
W. W. Willcocks, Esq., 34, Park Hall Road, N.2. (TUDor 1214).
RETARDED CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY, LTD.
This non-profit making Society has opened its first Home at Peter Pan House,
104, Leicester Road, New Barnet. The Home, although registered with the Hertfordshire
County Council, is provided for Middlesex children only and accommodates
8 mentally handicapped children, 4 boys and 4 girls, between the ages of 5 and 14 years.
The children attend the Friern Barnet Junior Training Centre, Oakleigh Road North,
N.20.
A proportion of the cost of keeping the children at the home is borne by the
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