page_title: Livability (charity)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Livability (charity) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Artificial rose in a box, now in Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery, Wednesbury, England. For transcription, see File:Wednesbury Museum - 2016-11-30 - Andy Mabbett - 05.jpg.
context_page_description: Livability is a national disability charity based in the UK and is the country's largest Christian disability charity. The charity was formed in 2007 after a merger between the Shaftesbury Society and John Grooms. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, became President of the organization in 2013 and the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, was its vice-president.
context_section_description: John Alfred Groom was a Victorian philanthropist who founded the Watercress and Flower Girls' Christian Mission (later "John Groom's Cripplegate and Flower Girls' Mission"), in 1866. In 1872 the social reformer Lord Shaftesbury established the Emily Loan Fund to enable young women flower sellers to support themselves. Later, in 1914, the Ragged School Union merged into the Shaftesbury Society, becoming fully subsumed under the title of the Shaftesbury Society in 1944.
  In 2007, the two charities merged and combined their experience in care, education and employment support to create the disability charity Livability.
caption: An artificial rose distributed to raise funds by John Groom's Cripplegate and Flower Girls' Mission
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